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Red Cedar Book Awards

Here are the nominees for the 2023-2024 Red Cedar Book Award, British Columbia's Young Readers' Choice Award. To vote for YOUR favourite book, visit https://www.redcedaraward.ca/.

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Apartment 713 : a novel / Kevin Sylvester.
Sylvester, Kevin, author.
Format: Book

Secret ballrooms, hidden artwork and unlikely friends—welcome to the Regency, where even time moves in surprising ways!

Rabbit chase / Elizabeth LaPensée, KC Oster ; Anishinaabemowin translation by Aarin Dokum.
LaPensée, Elizabeth, author.
Format: Book

FICTION: Anishinaabe culture and storytelling meet Alice in Wonderland in this coming-of-age graphic novel that explores Indigenous and gender issues through a fresh yet familiar looking glass.

Double O Stephen and the ghostly realm / Angela Ahn.
Ahn, Angela, author.
Format: Book

FICTION: Ghosts, pirates and family secrets -- Stephen gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out adventure in the ghostly realm.

Beatrice and Croc Harry : a novel / Lawrence Hill.
Hill, Lawrence, 1957- author.
Format: Book

FICTION: Beatrice, a young girl of uncertain age, wakes up all alone in a tree house in the forest. How did she arrive in this cozy dwelling, stocked carefully with bookshelves and oatmeal accoutrements? And who has been leaving a trail of clues, composed in delicate purple handwriting?

Weird rules to follow / Kim Spencer.
Spencer, Kim, author.
Format: Book

FICTION: Mia knows her family is very different than her best friend's. In the 1980s, the coastal fishing town of Prince Rupert is booming. Eleven-year-old Mia and her best friend, Lara, have known each other since kindergarten. Like most tweens, they like to hang out and compare notes on their crushes and dream about their futures. But even though they both live in the same cul-de-sac, Mia’s life is very different from her non-Indigenous, middle-class neighbor. A touching exploration of identity and culture.

Ghostlight / Kenneth Oppel.
Oppel, Kenneth, 1967- author.
Format: Book

FICTION: One teen's summer job scaring tourists with ghost stories takes a terrifying turn when he accidentally summons the spirit of a dead girl—and she has demands. . . . The award-winning author of Airborn delivers a roller-coaster ride of a story about the wakeful and wicked dead.

Forever Birchwood / Danielle Daniel.
Daniel, Danielle, author.
Format: Book

FICTION: Adventurous, trail-blazing Wolf lives in a northern mining town and spends her days exploring the mountains and wilderness with her three best friends Penny, Ann and Brandi. The girls' secret refuge is their tree-house hideaway, Birchwood, Wolf's favourite place on earth. When her beloved grandmother tells her that she is the great-granddaughter of a tree talker, Wolf knows that she is destined to protect the birch trees and wildlife that surround her.

Eight days / Teresa Toten ; cover illustration by Monique Parlevliet.
Toten, Teresa, 1955- author.
Format: Book

FICTION: Governor General's award-winning author Teresa Toten's story about one girl's transformative eight-day road-trip to retrieve her mother's body. How do you face a heartbreaking past? One day at a time. Or as Aggie says, one crisis at a timel

Autumn Bird & the runaway / Melanie Florence and Richard Scrimger ; cover and illustrations by Caeleigh Lightning.
Florence, Melanie, author.
Format: Book

FICTION: Autumn comes from a privileged, loving family. Cody comes from an abusive, alcoholic home. When he runs away, Autumn finds him curled up in pain, without resources, and without a safe place to stay. Autumn offers Cody a refuge and soon the both of them begin learning about lives neither have experienced.

Arab fairy tale feasts : a literary cookbook / tales by Karim Alrawi ; recipes by Sobhi al-Zobaidi & Tamam Qanembou-Zobaidi ; illustrations by Nahid Kazemi.
Alrawi, Karim, author.
Format: Book

NON-FICTION: An entertaining, multifaceted, and delicious way to explore Arab culture Arab Fairy Tale Feasts is the latest title in the highly-praised Fairy Tale Feasts Collection, a creative series that folds enchanting folk tales into cookbooks of kid-friendly recipes.