Forest of Reading Red Maple Award
The Red Maple Award is an award in the Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Awards. The Red Maple Award celebrates fiction and non-fiction Canadian books for grades 7-8 every year. Out of a ten nominated books in each category students must read a minimum of five to vote for their favourite. The winner is chosen by the most popular book in all participating libraries, schools, groups, etc.
History
Five years after the original Silver Birch Award was created an award for grades 7-9, the Red Maple Award was created. In 2005 a non-fiction subcategory of the Red Maple Award was created. It runs on all odd numbered years.Winners
So far, there have been 22 awards in fiction and 8 in non fiction.Only seven authors have won the award more then once: Eric Walters with 4, Susin Neilsen and Kenneth Oppel with 3 each, and Gayle Friesen, Wesley King, Norah McClintock, and Andreas Schroeder with 2 each. Friesen was the first to win the award twice, while Walters was the first to win 3 and 4 times.
Kenneth Oppel was the first to win back to back in 2005 and 2006, followed by Eric Walters in 2007 and 2008. Andreas Schroeder was the first to win back to back in non-fiction in 2005 and 2007.
Carol Matas was the first fiction winner, while Andreas Schroeder was the first non-fiction winner.
Fiction
Non-fiction
Nominated Books
These are the books that were nominated for a Red Maple Award each year but were not chosen as a winner.Fiction (1998-2007)
The books are ordered by year and the author's last name.| Year | Title | Author | Publishing Company/Companies |
| 1998 | Stranger at Bay | Don Aker | Stoddart |
| 1998 | A Light in the Dunes | Martha Attema | Orca |
| 1998 | No Fixed Address | Maureen Bayless | Scholastic |
| 1998 | What's Tuesday? | Mitzi Dale | Groundwood |
| 1998 | What's Tuesday? | Mitzi Dale | Douglas and McIntyre |
| 1998 | Uncle Ronald | Brian Doyle | Groundwood |
| 1998 | Uncle Ronald | Brian Doyle | Douglas & McIntyre |
| 1998 | Back of Beyond | Sarah Ellis | Groundwood |
| 1998 | Back of Beyond | Sarah Ellis | Douglas & McIntyre |
| 1998 | Promise Song | Linda Holeman | Tundra Books |
| 1998 | Moonkid and Prometheus | Paul Kropp | Stoddart |
| 1998 | The Body in the Basement | Norah McClintock | Scholastic |
| 1999 | Zack | William Bell | Doubleday |
| 1999 | Angels Turn Their Backs | Margaret Buffie | Kids Can Press |
| 1999 | Mercy's Birds | Linda Holeman | Tundra Books |
| 1999 | Sins of the Father | Norah McClintock | Scholastic Canada |
| 1999 | Make or Break Spring | Janet McNaughton | Tuckamore Books |
| 1999 | Awake and Dreaming | Kit Pearson | Puffin Books |
| 1999 | War of the Eagles | Eric Walters | Orca |
| 1999 | Brad's Universe | Mary Woodbury | Orca |
| 1999 | Stephen Fair | Tim Wynne-Jones | Groundwood |
| 2000 | The Sunflower Diary | Lillian Boraks-Nemetz | University of Toronto Press |
| 2000 | Alone at Ninety Foot | Katherine Holubitsky | Orca |
| 2000 | The Story Box | Monica Hughes | Harper Collins |
| 2000 | Touch of the Clown | Glen Huser | Groundwood Books |
| 2000 | Dahling, If You Luv Me, Would You Please, Please Smile | Rukhsana Khan | Stoddart Kids |
| 2000 | Password: Murder | Norah McClintock | Scholastic |
| 2000 | Daughter | Ishbel Moore | Kids Can Press |
| 2000 | Sunwing | Kenneth Oppel | Harper Collins |
| 2000 | The Mystery of Ireland's Eye | Shane Peacock | Viking |
| 2001 | The Breadwinner | Deborah Ellis | Groundwood |
| 2001 | Men of Stone | Gayle Friesen | Kids Can Press |
| 2001 | Raspberry House Blues | Linda Holeman | Tundra |
| 2001 | Storm Warning | Monica Hughes | Harper Collins |
| 2001 | The Wreckers | Iain Lawrence | Deacorte Press |
| 2001 | Charlie Wilcox | Sharon E. McKay | Stoddart Kids |
| 2001 | Over the Edge | Norah McClintock | Scholastic |
| 2001 | The Secret Under My Skin | Janet McNaughton | Harper Collins |
| 2001 | The Boy in the Burning House | Tim Wynne-Jones | Groundwood |
| 2002 | Stones | William Bell | Seal Books |
| 2002 | Whisperings of Magic | Karleen Bradford | HarperCollins Canada |
| 2002 | Whose Side Are You On? | Betty Fitzpatrick Dorion | Coteau Books |
| 2002 | A Bushel of Light | Troon Harrison | Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
| 2002 | Bone Beds of the Badlands | Shane Peacock | Puffin Canada |
| 2002 | Dust | Arthur Slade | Harper Trophy Canada |
| 2002 | Across the Steel River | Ted Stenhouse | Kids Can Press |
| 2002 | By the Standing Stone | Maxime Trottier | Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
| 2002 | Bully Boys | Eric Walters | Puffin Canada |
| 2003 | The Carved Box | Gillian Chan | Kids Can Press |
| 2003 | Irish Chain | Barbara Haworth-Attard | Harper Collins |
| 2003 | Flood | James Heneghan | Groundwood Books |
| 2003 | The Goodfellow Chronicles: The Sacred Seal | J.C. Mills | Key Porter Books |
| 2003 | Firewing | Kenneth Oppel | Harper Collins |
| 2003 | Out of the Ashes: A Shelby Belgarden Mystery | Valerie Sherrard | Boardwalk Books |
| 2003 | City of the Dead | Sharon Stewart | Red Deer Press |
| 2003 | Saving Jasey | Diane Tullson | Orca Books |
| 2003 | Fractures | Budge Wilson | Penguin Books |
| 2004 | Parvana's Journey | Deborah Ellis | Groundwood Books |
| 2004 | The Dirt Eaters | Dennis Foon | Annick Press |
| 2004 | In Spite of Killer Bees | Julie Johnston | Tundra Books |
| 2004 | The Bussaneers | Iain Lawrence | Delacourte Press |
| 2004 | Waiting for Sarah | Bruce McBay | Orca |
| 2004 | Waiting for Sarah | James Heneghan | Orca |
| 2004 | Charlie Wilcox's Great War | Sharon McKay | Penguin Group |
| 2004 | An Earthly Knight | Janet McNaughton | HarperCollins |
| 2004 | On Wings of a Dragon | Cora Taylor | Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
| 2004 | Run | Eric Walters | Penguin Group |
| 2005 | The Heaven Shop | Deborah Ellis | Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
| 2005 | Stitches | Glen Huser | Groundwood |
| 2005 | Peacekeepers | Dianne Linden | Coteau |
| 2005 | The Mob | Clem Martini | Kids Can |
| 2005 | Dead and Gone | Norah McClintock | Scholastic Canada |
| 2005 | A Different Kind of Beauty | Sylvia McNicoll | Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
| 2005 | Nobody's Child | Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch | Dundurn Press |
| 2005 | Sister to the Wolf | Maxine Trottier | Kids Can |
| 2005 | The Princess Pawn | Maggie L. Wood | Sumach |
| 2006 | After Sylvia | Alan Cumyn | Groundwood |
| 2006 | Gravesavers | Sheree Fitch | Doubleday Canada |
| 2006 | Sower of Tales | Rachna Gilmore | Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
| 2006 | Blood Brothers | Marilyn Halvorson | Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
| 2006 | Mercury Man | Tom Henighan | Dundurn Press |
| 2006 | Lost Goat Lane | Rosa Jordan | Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
| 2006 | Convicts | Iain Lawrence | Delacorte Press |
| 2006 | Convicts | Iain Lawrence | Random House |
| 2006 | Greenies | Myra Paperny | Harper Collins Canada |
| 2006 | From Charlie's Point of View | Richard Scrimger | Tundra Books |
| 2007 | Johnny Kellock Died Today | Hadley Dyer | HarperCollins Canada |
| 2007 | The Isabel Factor | Gayle Friesen | Kids Can Press |
| 2007 | The Girls They Left Behind | Bernice Thurman Hunter | Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
| 2007 | Born to Rock | Gordan Korman | Scholastic Canada |
| 2007 | The Plague. Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles | Clem Martini | Kids Can Press |
| 2007 | Not a Trace: A Chole and Levesque Mystery | Norah McClintock | Scholastic Canada |
| 2007 | The Raintree Rebellion | Janet McNaughton | HarperCollins |
| 2007 | Megiddo's Shadow | Arthur Slade | HarperCollins Canada |
| 2007 | Red Goodwin | John Wilson | Ronsdale |