2023 CCBC Book Awards Shortlists
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) has announced the shortlists for the 2023 CCBC Book Awards, which include several titles of genre interest:
Amy Mathers Teen Book Award
- Road of the Lost, Nafiza Azad (McElderry)
- As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, Zoulfa Katouh (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Jean Little First Novel Award
- The Grave Thief, Dee Hahn (Puffin Canada)
Arlene Barlin Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Sneaks, Catherine Egan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
- Blood Scion, Deborah Falaye (HarperTeen)
- The Limitless Sky, Christina Kilbourne (Dundurn)
- A Magic Steeped in Poison, Judy I. Lin (Feiwel and Friends)
- Ghostlight, Kenneth Oppel (Puffin Canada)
Other awards categories include the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction, and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. Prizes range from CAD $5,000 to CAD $50,000. Winners will be announced at an in-person event on October 23, 2023 in Toronto, Canada.
For more information, including the complete shortlists, see the announcement on the CCBC website.
This report and more like it in the July 2023 issue of Locus.
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