White Pine Award

Canadian literature award

White Pine Award

Awarded for| Awarded to various outstanding works of Canadian young adult literature (Grades 9-12: ages 14-18)
Country| Canada
Presented by| Ontario Library Association
First award| 2002
Website| http://www.accessola.com/ola/bins/content_page.asp?cid=92-263

The White Pine Award is one of the annual literature Forest of Reading awards sponsored by the Ontario Library Association (OLA).[1]

Every year, 10 books are nominated for the award and students vote their favourite book.[2]

The White Pine Nonfiction Award was discontinued after 2014.[3]

## Voting

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In order to vote for the winner, one must register at the local branch library and read a minimum of 5 of the 10 nominated books. The program ends in April (of that year), with the voting day usually on April 18. Based on student voting across the province, the most popular book is then selected and author is honored with the White Pine Award. There are usually about 10 different nominees for the award every year.

## Winners

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### Fiction

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Award winners[4] Year  | Author  | Title  | Publisher  | Ref.

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2002 | Shelley Hrdlitschka | Dancing Naked | Orca Book Publishers |
2003 | Gillian Chan | A Foreign Field | Kids Can Press |
2004 | Don Aker | The First Stone | HarperCollins |
2005 | Marnelle Tokio | More Than You Can Chew | Tundra Books |
2006 | Charles De Lint | The Blue Girl | Viking |
2007 | Eric Walters | Shattered | Viking/Penguin |
2008 | Martine Leavitt | Keturah & Lord Death | Red Deer Press |
2009 | Cory Doctorow | Little Brother | Tor Books/H. B. Fenn and Company  |
2010 | Pam Bustin | Mostly Happy | Thistledown Press |
2011 | Richard Scarsbrook | The Monkeyface Chronicles | Thistledown Press |
2012 | Kelley Armstrong | The Gathering | Random House of Canada/Doubleday Canada |
2013 | Jeyn Roberts | Dark Inside | Simon & Schuster |
2014 | Lisa Harrington | Live to Tell | Dancing Cat Books |
2015 | Eve Silver | Rush | HarperCollins Canada |
2016 | Jeyn Roberts | The Bodies We Wear | Knopf Books/Random House Canada | [5][6]
2017 | S. J. Laidlaw | Fifteen Lanes | Tundra Books | [7]
2018 | Danielle Younge-Ullman | Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined | Razorbill Canada | [8]
2019 | Heather T. Smith | The Agony of Bun O'Keefe | Penguin Teen Publishing | [9]
2020 | Courtney Summers | Sadie | St. Martin's Press | [10]
2021 | Tanaz Bhathena | Hunted by the Sky | Farrar Straus and Giroux | [11]

### Non-fiction

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Award winners  Year  | Author  | Title  | Result

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2012 | Neil Pasricha | The Book of Awesome | Penguin Group U.S.A./Amy Einhorn Books
2014 | Lise Dion and Liedewij Hawke | The Secret of the Blue Trunk | Dundurn Press

## See also

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* Ontario Library Association
* Forest of Reading
* Forest of Reading Red Maple Award

## References

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1. ^ "Nominated Lists". Ontario Library Association. Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
2. ^ "White Pine Award". The Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 20 September 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
3. ^ "White Pine Award Winners and Nominees 2002-2018" (PDF). Ontario Library Association. Archived from the original on 3 March 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
4. ^ "White Pine Award Archives". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
5. ^ "2016 OLA Forest of Reading - White Pine Award (Grades 9 to 12) - 2016". Toronto Public Library. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
6. ^ Cerny, Dory. "Awards: OLA Forest of Reading". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
7. ^ Cerny, Dory (2017-05-17). "OLA announces 2017 Forest of Reading Winners". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
8. ^ von Koeverden, Jane (2018-05-17). "Vikki VanSickle, Danielle Younge-Ullman among 2018 Forest of Reading Winners". CBC Books. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
9. ^ Rubinoff, Joel. "Waterloo children's author nabs $50,000 prize". The Record. Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
10. ^ Scriver, Amanda (March 2021). "YA novelist Courtney Summers and the complicated allure of cults". Quill & Quire. Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
11. ^ Porter, Ryan (2021-05-18). "Forest of Reading Awards kicks off three-day ceremony, announcing first round of winners". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-22.