The Books for Youth and Young Adult Award was new for the 2024 season, and will celebrate fiction or nonfiction books published in the previous 12 months for middle grade, (ages 8 to 12) up to young adult (ages 13 to 18). Both traditionally-published and self-published books are welcome. 2025 Awards(For books published in 2024) Valerie Sherrard, An Unbalanced Force (DCB Cormorant, 2024)
Finalists: Bea Waters, Project Human (Almandel Entertainment), Fredericton Odette Barr, Colleen Landry and Beth Weatherbee, Follow the Goose Butt to Prince Edward Island (Acorn Press), Petit-Cap; illustrated by Odette Barr | Judge2026: Lesley Choyce2025: A.N.SAGE |