Stellar Book Award

The Stellar Book Award is British Columbia's Teen Readers Choice Award. Visit their website between November 2011 and April 2012 to find out how you can register to read, review, rank and vote for your favourite title. All titles are written by Canadian authors. In order to vote, you must have read at least five of the nominated books. The winner will be announced in May 2012. In order to register, you must be between the age of 13 (by January 1, 2012) and 19.

2011 / 2012 Nominees

Dreamfire
Nicole Luiken
To prevent her family and friends from perishing in a raging wildfire, Brianne must find a way to   stop the wulfdraigles - ancient enemies to humanity that are growing in power, one evil dream at a time.

The Gryphon Project
Carrie Mac
Phoenix envies her brother Gryphon. The daredevil and sports hero has all of his recons left: three more chances at life. But she is left with only one, and learns that her beloved brother is responsible for one of her deaths.

Living Outside The Lines
Lesley Choyce
Nigel is a 16-year-old high school student who writes a class assignment about a world in which teenagers become the leading actors in society, politically, economically, socially and medically. Unexpectedly, a publisher expresses interest, the book is published, and very quickly Nigel becomes an unwitting celebrity.

My Parents Are Sex Maniacs
Robyn Harding
When Louise’s brother walks in on their father and her best friend Sienna’s mother fooling around, everything in Louise’s life changes – her father moves out, her mother becomes a recluse, and, worst of all, Sienna stops talking to her.

Not Suitable For Family Viewing
Vicki Grant
Robin has everything a girl could want. Thanks to her mother—the internationally beloved talk show host Mimi Schwartz—Robin’s got the money, the means and the connections to make even her wildest dreams come true. So why, then, does she choose to sit alone in a dark room watching endless reruns of you, you and Mimi?

Pop
Gordon Korman
Marcus Jordan loves football, but didn't realize how much until he and his mother moved to New York from Kansas, thanks to divorce and a job offer. There he meets Charlie Popovich, a former NFL linebacker who gives him 'extra' training in a nearby park. At first, Marcus doesn't question it, but soon questions about Charlie and his mental functioning.

Shadow Boxing
Sherie Posesorski
An edgy absorbing novel about 17 year old Alice coping with the loss of her mother and the distance of her father.

The Sweetness of the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley
Introducing Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old with a penchant for poison that she nurtured to defend herself from her nasty older sisters. One day, while searching for ingredients, Flavia discovers a dead body in the cucumber patch.

Swim The Fly
Don Calame
Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time--quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl out on a date.

Thinandbeautiful.com
Liane Shaw
Seventeen-year-old Maddie has always flet a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape.

The Uninvited
Tim Wynne Jones
After a disturbing freshman year at New York University, Mimi is happy to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage only to discover a stranger living there who turns out to be her half-brother.

Wondrous Strange
Lesley Livingston
17 year-old Kelley Winslow doesn’t believe in Faeries. Not unless they’re the kind that you find in a theatre, spouting Shakespeare—the kind that Kelley so desperately wishes she could be: onstage, under lights, with a pair of sparkly wings strapped to her shoulders. But as the understudy in an off-off-Broadway production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, wishing is probably the closest she’s going to get to becoming a Faerie Queen. At least, that’s what she thinks...