Red Cedar Book Awards

The Red Cedar is British Columbia’s Young Reader’s Choice book award. Every year, thousands of children between grades 4 and 7 from across the province are invited to read books from the nominated lists of fiction and non-fiction titles and vote for their favourite.

Red Cedar Fiction Award

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2012 - After the Fire by Becky Citra

2011 - Libertad by Alma Fullerton

2010 - Dear Jo: The Story of Losing Leah -- and Searching for Hope by Christina Kilbourne

2009 - The Devil, the Banshee and Me by L. M. Falcone

2008 - The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter

2007 - Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

2006 - Mud City by Deborah Ellis

2005 - Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis

2004 - If I Just Had Two Wings by Virginia Frances Schwartz

2003 - The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

2002 - Sunwing by Kenneth Oppel

2001 - Janey's Girl by Gayle Friesen

2000 - Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel

1999 - Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson

1998 - Amy's Promise by Bernice Thurman Hunter

Red Cedar Non-Fiction Award

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2012 - How to Build Your Own Country by Valerie Wyatt

2011 - Everything but the Kitchen Sink: Weird Stuff You Didn't Know about Food by Frieda Wishinsky

2010 - Sweet: The Delicious Story of Candy by Ann Love and Jane Drake

2009 - Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses? by Dr. Stanley Coren

2008 - Transformed:How Everyday Things Are Made by Bill Slavin

2007 - Aha! The Most Interesting Book You’ll Ever Read About Intelligence by Trudee Romanek

2006 - Survivors! True Death-defying Escapes by Larry Verstraete

2005 - Hana's Suitcase: A True Story by Karen Levine

2004 - Ha! Ha! Ha! 1000+ Jokes, Riddles, Facts and More by Lyn Thomas

2003 - Adventures in the Middle Ages by Linda Bailey

2002 - Wow Canada! Exploring the Land from Coast to Coast to Coast by Vivien Bower

2001 - Funny You Should Ask by Marg Meikle

2000 - The Great Race by David Bouchard

1999 - Anastasia's Album by Hugh Brewster

1998 - In Flanders Field: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae by Linda Granfield