Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award
The Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award established in 1991 by the Manitoba School Library Association. It is presented to the Canadian children’s book that receives the most votes by children from grades 5-8 involved in the program. Participants must read at least 3 titles from a pre-selected list. The awards ceremony takes place in February
THE 2010 MYRCA Shortlist
After by Hazel Hutchins (Smith, Bonappétit & Son)
The Ancient Ocean Blues by Jack Mitchell (Tundra Books)
Breathing Soccer by Debbie Spring (Thistledown Press)
Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji (Second Story Press)
Death in the Air by Shane Peacock (Tundra Books)
Dog Lost by Ingrid Lee (Scholastic Canada)
The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester (Square Fish)
Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat (Red Deer Press)
Libertad by Alma Fullerton (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Res Judicata by Vicki Grant (Orca Books)
The Séance by Iain Lawrence (Random House Canada)
The Shadow of Malabron by Thomas Wharton (Doubleday Canada)
Tweaked by Katharine Holubitsky (Orca Books)
War Brothers by Sharon McKay (Puffin Canada)
What World Is Left by Monique Polak (Orca Books)
Withershins by Susan Rocan (Great Plains)
Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen (Tundra Books)
Would You by Marthe Jocelyn (Tundra Books)
The Winner of the 2009 MYRCA
Dear Jo: The story of losing Leah ... and searching for hope by Christina Kilbourne
The 2009 MYRCA Honour Books
Sketches by Eric Walters
Schooled by Gordon Korman
THE 2009 MYRCA Shortlist
Baboon by David Jones (Annick Press)
Chocolate River Rescue by Jennifer McGrath Kent (Nimbus Publishing)
Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel (HarperCollins)
Dear Jo: the Story of Losing Leah by Christina Kilbourne (Lobster Press)
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
The End of the World As We Know It by Lesley Choyce (Red Deer Press)
Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock (Tundra Books)
How It Happened in Peach Hill by Marthe Jocelyn (Random House)
The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor (Annick Press)
Out of the Cold by Norah McClintock (Scholastic)
A Perfect Gentle Knight by Kit Pearson (Puffin Canada)
Schooled by Gordon Korman (Scholastic)
Sketches by Eric Walters (Puffin Canada)
Soames on the Range by Nancy Belgue (HarperCollins)
Vendetta by Christopher Humphreys (Random House, Knopf)
Visions: Freak II by Carol Matas (Key Porter Books)
When the Bough Breaks by Irene N. Watts (Random House)
When the Curtain Rises by Rachel Dunstan Muller (Orca)
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| 2007 | Pamela Porter The Crazy Man. Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2005. | |||||
| 2006 | Eva Wiseman No One Must Know. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2004. | |||||
| 2005 | James Heneghan and Bruce McBay Waiting for Sarah. Victoria: Orca Book Publishers, 2003. | |||||
| 2004 | Kenneth Oppel Firewing. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. | |||||
| 2003 | Virginia Frances Schwartz If I Just Had Two Wings. Toronto: Stoddart Kids, 2001. | |||||
| 2002 | Deborah Ellis The Breadwinner. Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2000. | |||||
| 2001 | Kenneth Oppel Sunwing. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. | |||||
| 2000 | Kenneth Oppel Silverwing. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. | |||||
| 1999 | Kit Pearson Awake and Dreaming. Toronto: Puffin Books, 1998. | |||||
| 1998 | Roy MacGregor Mystery at Lake Placid. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995. | |||||
| 1997 | Sylvia McNicoll Bringing Up Beauty. Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1994. | |||||
| 1996 | Carol Matas Daniel’s Story. Richmond Hill, ON: Scholastic Canada, 1993. | |||||
| 1995 | Jeni Mayer The Mystery of the Missing Will. Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1992. | |||||
| 1994 | Kit Pearson Looking at the Moon. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada, 1991. | |||||
| 1993 | Martyn Godfrey Can You Teach Me to Pick My Nose? New York: Avon, 1990. | |||||
| 1992 | William Bell Five Days of the Ghost. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1989. | |||||
| 1991 | Gordon Korman The Zucchini Warriors. Richmond Hill, ON: Scholastic Canada, 1990. |
