Collura, Mary Ellen Lang
Winners

Fifteen year old Jordy Threebears is returning to live at Ash Creek Reserve to live with a grandfather he hardly knows after years of negligent foster homes. For Jordy, the years of resentment prove difficult to overcome until he receives the gift of a wild mare.

Dickinson, Peter
Eva

Thirteen year old Eva wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything. Her mother leans over her bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma...But Eva senses that there is something she is not being told. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?

Farmer, Nancy
A Girl Named Disaster

Nhamo, fleeing an impending marriage to a cruel man with three wives, flees to Zimbabwe, alone on the Musengezi River.

Fisher-Staples, Suzanne
Shabanu; Haveli

Shabanu, a spirited young Pakistani woman, must balance her own desires against her obligations to her family and to centuries of of tradition

Garden, Nancy
Dove and Sword

Domremy, France, 1429. A peasant girl hears voices. These voices say that she has been chosen to be God's warrior; they say that she will lead an army. The girl is Joan of Arc. Her friend, Gabrielle, wonders if Joan is mad, or a miracle. But she cannot resist the urge to escape her small town and follow Joan onto the battlefield.

Heneghan, James
Torn Away

Thirteen year old Declan lives only for revenge. His mother, father and sister were all killed by the British on the streets of Belfast, and Declan will stop at nothing to even the score. When he is torn away from his home to live in Canada, he deeply resents his relatives' attempts to welcome him into their lives. Can he devise a plan to return to Ireland and rejoin his cause, or will the beauty of the Canadian West Coast make him forget his mission?

Lowry, Lois
The Giver

Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. THere is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas is twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from the Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of true pain and pleasure of life. Now its time for Jonas to receive the truth...

Moore, Ishbel
Dolina May

When her abusive boyfriend deserts her on a lonely Manitoba road, Dolina finds her greatest challenge in the farmhouse where she seeks shelter. How does a street kid respond to kindness?

Paulsen, Gary
The Island

Fifteen year old Will Newton escapes to an island to escape the escalating tension between his parents. But Will can't stay from the outside world forever..

Philbrick, R.
Freak the Mighty

All his life, Max had been called slow. Dumb. It didn't seem to help that his body was growing faster than his mind, and that people seemed to be afraid of him. So Max learned how to be alone. At least until Freak came along...