2025 Award Winning Canadian Middle Grade FictionLike this list

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• Tig

  Smith, Heather, 1968-

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  Governor General's Literary Award. "After months of living without electricity or parents, Tig and Peter are forced to move in with their Uncle Scott and his partner, Manny. The transition from down-and-out to picture-perfect isn't easy, especially…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Outsmarters

  Ellis, Deborah (Author of The Breadwinner)

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  IODE Violet Downey Book Award. "Eleven-year-old Kate lives with her grandmother, who runs a junk shop in a big old house on the outskirts of town. It sometimes feels sad to be in the business of collecting other people's leftover stuff, but Kate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alterations

  a Graphic Novel

  Xu, Ray

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  Jean Little First Novel Award. "A semi-autobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about a Canadian-Chinese boy who feels invisible at home and in school but longs to stand out"-- Kevin Lee is having a really bad week. Although he lives in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New Girl

  Calin, Cassandra, 1994-

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  Janet Savage Blachford Prize. Leaving Romania, the only home she's ever known, Lia is thrust into a world where everything is different and with so many changes happening at once, including a new school and unpleasant periods, she wonders if she'll…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lost & Found

  Based on a True Story

  Yu, Mei

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  Silver Birch Express Award.. "A little girl moves with her family from China to Canada and must find a way to learn English in order to make friends."--

• The Legendary Mo Seto

  Chan, A. Y.

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  Silver Birch Award. As twelve-year-old aspiring taekwondo champion Modesty "Mo" Seto faces off against her nemesis in a movie audition, she uncovers a mysterious book and embarks on an adventure to rescue her missing father and discover hidden…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silverwing

  Oppel, Kenneth, 1967-

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  Red Cedar Book Award (2024-2025). A stunning adaptation of a tale that's been winning hearts for twenty-five years Shade is a young Silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. But he's determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold

  Outram, Jessica

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  Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. It's the summer of 1914. Eight-year-old Bernice lives with her family in a lighthouse on Georgian Bay. One day Bernice wakes up to find a stranger named Tom Thomson sleeping in their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pluto Rocket

  Over the Moon

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  Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award. Joe Pidge, king of the neighborhood, and Pluto Rocket, an alien who's new in town, have left Earth for the moon in order to convince Pluto's three dads that she didn't go to Earth at all. Her dads believe…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shamus the Urban Rez Dog, P.I.

  Gentile, Leslie

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  Chocolate Lily Award Winner. Missing jewelry, a false accusation, and a real thief. Shamus the Urban Rez Dog, P.I. is on the case. The name's Shamus. I'm a special kind of dog known as a Rez Dog. That means I'm a mix of different breeds and I come…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bellwoods Game

  Krampien, Celia, 1988-

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  Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award--Sundogs. Everyone knows Fall Hollow is haunted. It has been ever since Abigail Snook went into the woods many years ago, never to be seen again. Since then, it’s tradition for the sixth graders at Beckett…Read moreRead more of this annotation