The Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award was a literary award given annually from 1981 to 2016 to recognize a Canadian book of
young adult fiction written in English and published in Canada, written by a citizen or permanent resident of Canada.
The award was administered and presented by the
Canadian Library Association, which disbanded in 2016. The award was established by the Young Adult Caucus of the Saskatchewan Library Association in 1980
[ and inaugurated by an award to Kevin Major of Newfoundland and Labrador for ''Far from Shore'', published by Clarke, Irwin & Company of Toronto.][
The companion CLA Book of the Year for Children Award was inaugurated in 1947 and was presented annually without exception from 1963.][ Its criteria included "appeal to children up to and including age 12" and "creative (i.e., original) writing (i.e., fiction, poetry, narrative, non-fiction, retelling of traditional literature)".][ Corresponding criteria for the YA Book Award are " ppealto young adults between the ages of 13 and 18" and "fiction (novel, collection of short stories, or graphic novel)".][
The Canadian Library Association also administered a book award for illustrators, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award.
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Winners
Repeat winners
Martha Brooks is a three-time winner of the Young Adult Book Award for 1998, 2003, and 2008, William Bell is a two-time winner, in 2002 and 2007.
Winners of multiple awards
Two books won both the Young Adult Book Award and the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award: ''Shadow in Hawthorn Bay'' by Janet Lunn in 1987 and ''Half Brother'' by Kenneth Oppel in 2011.
Six books won both the Young Adult Book Award and the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature, or Canada Council Children's Literature Prize before 1987. The writers and CLA award dates were Hughes 1983, Lunn 1987, (now under the present name) Wieler 1990, Johnston 1995, Wynne-Jones 1996, and Brooks 2003.[
Thus ''Shadow in Hawthorn Bay'' (]Lester & Orpen Dennys
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, 1986) by Janet Lunn won three major Canadian awards, the CLA awards for both children's and young-adult literature and the Governor General's Award in its last year as the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize.[
Two winners of the CLA Young Adult Book Award were also recognized by major annual book awards in the United States. Polly Horvath won the 2003 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for '' The Canning Season''. ''This One Summer'', a graphic novel by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, was one of the 2015 Honour Books, or finalists, for both the American Library Association (ALA) ]Michael L. Printz Award
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as the year's best new work for young adults judged "by literary merit alone" (recognizing Mariko Tamaki) and the ALA Caldecott Medal, or children's picture book illustration award (recognizing Jillian Tamaki).
See also
* British Carnegie Medal
References
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External links
Book Awards
at the Canadian Library Association (cla.org)
Young adult literature awards
1981 establishments in Canada
Awards established in 1981
2016 disestablishments in Canada
Awards disestablished in 2016
English-language literary awards