2022 CCBC Book Awards Shortlists
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) is excited to announce the finalists for the following eight major awards celebrating Canadian books for young people, including new awards, the Arlene Barlin Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy and the David Booth Children’s and Youth Poetry Award. Missing from our list here are the following titles, which are also nominees: If I Tell You the Truth, Written by Jasmin Kaur; The Project, by Courtney Summers; Thanks a Lot, Universe, by Chad Lucas; Sisters of the Snake, by Sarena Nanua and Sasha Nanua; Spell Sweeper, by Lee Edward Födi;
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The Fabulous Zed Watson!
Growing Up Trans
In Our Own Words
A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid
On the Trapline
Hare B&B
Lala's Words
A Story of Planting Kindness
Time Is a Flower
We All Play
Boy from Buchenwald
The Girl Who Loved Giraffes
And Became the World's First Giraffologist
Mad for Ads
How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads
The Power of Style
How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures
Dear Peter, Dear Ulla
Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer
Second Chances
Crisis And Renewal In Our Everyday Lives
Stealing Home
Baseball Poems
Traitors Among Us
Blood Like Magic
Iron Widow (Book 1)
Misfit in Love
Living With Viola
Hunting by Stars
(A Marrow Thieves Novel)
The Book of Selkie
A Paper Doll Book