Myrca 2014

Any child, resident of Manitoba, between grades 5-8 may vote for their favorite book as long as they have read 5 from the nominated list.

www.myrca.ca

Fantasy

Juvenile:

Margaret and the Moth Tree

The Graverobber’s Apprentice

Tween:

Circle of Cranes

Teen:

Seraphina

Margaret and the Moth Treeby

Brit and Kari Trogen

If this were a proper world, beautiful faces would belong to beautiful people…

The Graverobber’s Apprenticeby

Allan Stratton

Years ago, in the Archduchy of Waldland, on a night when the wind was strong and the waves were high, a boy washed ashore in a small wooden chest…

Circle of Cranesby

Annette Le Box

On a high plateau in the mountains, in Guizhou Province, China, there was a far-off village called Cao Hai…

Seraphinaby

Rachel Hartman

I remember being born…

Realistic

Juvenile:

Ungifted

Middle of Nowhere

Tween:

Small Medium at Large

Teen:

The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

My Name is Parvana

Ungiftedby

Gordon Korman

I want a refund from ancestry.com…

Middle of Nowhereby

Caroline Adderson

I heard a siren in my sleep…

Small Medium at Largeby

Joanne Levy

Despite the suffocating mid-May heat and the nonbreathable fabric of my lavender polyester dress, it was shaping up to be a very good day...

The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsenby

Susin Nielsen

INTRIGUING FACT: The word “psychology” comes from the Greek word “psyche”. It means the study of the mind…

My Name is Parvanaby

Deborah Ellis

“Is your name Parvana?”…

Mysteries

Juvenile:

Mr and Mrs Bunny – Detectives Extraodinaire

Tween:

The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls

Teen:

Crush, Candy, Corpse

Guilty

Mr and Mrs Bunny – Detectives Extraordinairetranslated from the rabbit by

Polly Hovarth

By nighttime Hornby Island would be a blaze of lights…

The Prisoner of Snowflake Fallsby

John Lekich

I am writing the story of my life in a notebook I stole from a drugstore…

Crush. Candy. Corpse.by

Sylvia Mcnicoll

“Sonja Anna Ehret, you stand accused of manslaughter. How do you plead?”…

Guiltyby

Norah McClintock

I hear my dad bellow, “What do you think you’re doing?”…

Historical

Juvenile: Making Bombs for Hilter

Yesterday’s Dead

Tween: Such Wicked Intent

Teen: The Lynching of Louie Sam

Redcoats and Renegades

Making Bombs for Hitlerby

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

The room smelled of soap and the light was so white that it made my eyes ache…

Yesterday’s Deadby

Pat Bourke

Meredith half walked, half ran along the wide hallway of Union Station…

Such Wicked Intentby

Kenneth Oppel

The books flew open like startled birds trying to escape the flames…

Redcoats and Renegadesby

Barry Divitt

I was the first person the Canadian Mounties ever arrested…

The Lynching of Louie Samby

Elizabeth Stewart

My name is George Gillies…

When & Where to Vote

Vote through your school library or

visit any Winnipeg Public Library from March 17 – April 4th, 2014

to vote for your favorite.