2010/2011 Winner Announced for the Stellar Book Awards--BC Teen Readers' Choice Award

The winner of this year's Stellar Book Awards--BC Teen Readers' Choice Award (2010/2011) is
Kelley Armstrong's The Summoning.  Available in the library.

Nominations have also been announced for next year's awards (2011/2012). They are

Shadow Boxing by Sherie Posesorski*
thinandbeautiful.com by Liane Shaw
Dreamfire by Nicole Luiken
Living Outside the Lines by Lesley Choyce
My Parents are Sex Maniacs by Robyn Harding
Not Suitable for Family Viewing by Vicki Grant*
Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
Pop by Gordon Korman*
The Gryphon Project by Carrie Mac*
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Swim the Fly by Don Calame
The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones*

*available in the library
Others will be purchased for the next school year.

Arthur Ellis Awards (Crime Writers of Canada) 2011

The finalists for the Arthur Ellis Awards, for excellence in Mystery and Crime Writing,  have just been announced.  For information about the awards go to
http://www.crimewriterscanada.com/
Winners will be announced on June 2, 2011, in Victoria, B.C.

The library has the following nominated books: 

Borderline, Allan Stratton
Pluto's Ghost, Sheree Fitch
The Vinyl Princess, Yvonne Prinz
The Worst Thing She Ever Did, Alice Kiupers
Victim Rights, Norah McClintock

If you know who Arthur Ellis is, let Mr. Chafer know in the library and you will win a mystery book.