Amy Mathers Teen Book Award

The Amy Mathers Teen Book Award is an annual Canadian literary award, administered by the Canadian Children's Book Centre, to recognize the best works of teen and young adult literature by Canadian writers.

The award is named for Amy Mathers, a Canadian woman with physical disabilities who undertook a reading "marathon" in 2014, reading one book a day for the entire year to raise funds to launch the award.[1]

Winners and nominees

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref
2015	Marthe Jocelyn	What We Hide	Winner	[2]
	Laura Langston	The Art of Getting Stared At	Finalist
	Caroline Pignat	The Gospel Truth
	Jeyn Roberts	The Bodies We Wear
	Robert Paul Weston	Blues for Zoey
2016	Susan Juby	The Truth Commission	Winner	[3]
	Holly Bodger	5 to 1	Finalist	[4]
	Erin Bow	Scorpion Rules
	Emil Sher	Young Man with Camera
	Stephanie Tromly	Trouble Is a Friend of Mine
2017	E. K. Johnston	Exit, Pursued by a Bear	Winner	[5]
	Eileen Cook	With Malice	Finalist	[6]
	Catherine Egan	Julia Vanishes
	M-E Girard	Girl Mans Up
	Caroline Pignat	Shooter
2018	Cherie Dimaline	The Marrow Thieves	Winner	[7]
	Darren Groth	Munro vs. the Coyote	Finalist	[8]
	Heather Smith	The Agony of Bun O'Keefe
	Allan Stratton	The Way Back Home
	Danielle Younge-Ullman	Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined
2019	Michelle Barker	The House of One Thousand Eyes	Winner	[9]
	Kelley Armstrong	Aftermath	Finalist	[10]
	Tanaz Bhathena	A Girl Like That
	Catherine Lo	Easy Prey
	Janice Lynn Mather	Learning to Breathe
2020	Natasha Deen	In the Key of Nira Ghani	Winner	[11]
	S. K. Ali	Love from A to Z	Finalist	[12]
	Nafiza Azad	The Candle and the Flame
	L. D. Crichton	All Our Broken Pieces
	Tom Ryan	Keep This to Yourself
2021	Janice Lynn Mather	Facing the Sun	Winner	[13]
	June Hur	The Silence of Bones	Finalist	[14]
	Ben Philippe	Charming As a Verb
	Raziel Reid	Followers
	Danielle Younge-Ullman	He Must Like You
2022	Xiran Jay Zhao	Iron Widow	Winner	[15]
	S. K. Ali	Misfit in Love	Finalist	[16]
	Jasmin Kaur	If I Tell You the Truth
	Liselle Sambury	Blood Like Magic
	Courtney Summers	The Project
2023	Zoulfa Katouh	As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow	Winner	[17]
	Nafiza Azad	The Road to Lost	Finalist	[18]
	Jesmeen Kaur Deo	TJ Powar Has Something to Prove
	June Hur	The Red Palace
	H. N. Khan	Wrong Side of the Court
2024	Abdi Nazemian	Only This Beautiful Moment	Winner	[19]
	Daniel Aleman	Brighter Than the Sun	Finalist	[20]
	Jackie Khalilieh	Something More
	Liselle Sambury	Delicious Monsters
	Sarak Suk	The Space Between Here & Now

References

1. "One remarkable woman reading her way across Canada". Canada AM, December 31, 2014.
2. Mark Medley, "Jonathan Auxier wins big at the Canadian Children’s Book Centre awards". The Globe and Mail, November 19, 2015.
3. "Nanaimo author Susan Juby wins teen book award". Nanaimo News Bulletin, November 24, 2016.
4. "Nanaimo author Susan Juby nominated for the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award". Nanaimo News Bulletin, September 8, 2016.
5. Laura Godfrey, "'Great Auk' Wins TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award". Publishers Weekly, November 22, 2017.
6. Becky Robertson, "Jon Klassen, Julie Flett, Chris Hadfield among CCBC Award finalists". Quill & Quire, September 7, 2017.
7. Chanda Deziel, "Town is by the Sea, The Marrow Thieves, When the Moon Comes honoured at TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards". Quill & Quire, October 30, 2018.
8. Shanda Deziel, "Wendy Orr, Cherie Demaline, and Monique Gray Smith among CCBC Award finalists". Quill & Quire, September 6, 2018.
9. "36 Canadian books that won awards in the second half of 2019". CBC Books, December 30, 2019.
10. Jane van Koeverden, "Jillian Tamaki, Kelley Armstrong, Janice Lynn Mather among Canadian Children's Book Centre finalists". CBC Books, September 5, 2019.
11. "Julie Flett wins $50K TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for picture book Birdsong". CBC Books, November 2, 2020.
12. "Julie Flett, Sydney Smith among finalists for $50K TD Canadian Children's Literature Award". CBC Books, September 15, 2020.
13. Inderjit Deogun, "Winners of the 2021 CCBC Book Awards revealed". Quill & Quire, November 3, 2021.
14. Inderjit Deogun, "CCBC Book Awards announces 2021 shortlist". Quill & Quire, September 14, 2021.
15. Inderjit Deogun, "Winners of the 2022 CCBC Book Awards revealed". Quill & Quire, September 30, 2022.
16. "David A. Robertson, Xiran Jay Zhao & Christian Allaire among finalists for top Canadian children's book awards". CBC Books, September 12, 2022.
17. Zoie Karagiannis, "Kim Spencer wins $50K Canadian children's book award for first novel Weird Rules to Follow". CBC Books, October 24, 2023.
18. "Canadian Children’s Book Centre 2023 awards shortlists announced". Quill & Quire, September 12, 2023.
19. "Jean E. Pendziwol and Jack Wong among winners for Canadian children's book awards". CBC Books, October 29, 2024.
20. Natalie Vilkoff, "Jack Wong, Sydney Smith and Liselle Sambury among finalists for top Canadian children's book awards". CBC Books, October 8, 2024.

External links

• Amy Mathers Teen Book Award