The White Pine Award is one of the annual literature Forest of Reading awards sponsored by the Ontario Library Association (OLA).
Every year, 10 books are nominated for the award and students vote their favourite book.
The White Pine Nonfiction Award was discontinued after 2014.
Voting In order to vote for the winner, one must register at the local branch library and read a minimum of 5 of the 10 nominated books. The program ends in April (of that year), with the voting day usually on April 18. Based on student voting across the province, the most popular book is then selected and author is honored with the White Pine Award. There are usually about 10 different nominees for the award every year.
Winners
Fiction +Award winnersYearAuthorTitlePublisherRef.2002Dancing NakedOrca Book Publishers2003A Foreign FieldKids Can Press2004The First StoneHarperCollins2005More Than You Can ChewTundra Books2006The Blue GirlViking2007ShatteredViking/Penguin2008Keturah & Lord DeathRed Deer Press2009Little BrotherTor Books/H. B. Fenn and Company2010Mostly HappyThistledown Press2011The Monkeyface ChroniclesThistledown Press2012The GatheringRandom House of Canada/Doubleday Canada2013Dark InsideSimon & Schuster2014Live to TellDancing Cat Books2015RushHarperCollins Canada2016The Bodies We WearKnopf Books/Random House Canada2017Fifteen LanesTundra Books2018Everything Beautiful Is Not RuinedRazorbill Canada2019The Agony of Bun O'KeefePenguin Teen Publishing2020SadieSt. Martin's Press2021Hunted by the SkyFarrar Straus and Giroux2022What Unbreakable Looks LikeWednesday Books / Macmillan Publishers2023DaughterWednesday Books / Macmillan Publishers2024Pieces of MeSt. Martin's Press / Macmillan Publishers2025The Space Between Here & NowQuill Tree Books / HarperCollins Canada2026For She is WrathWednesday Books / Macmillan Publishers
Non-fiction +Award winnersYearAuthorTitleResult2012Penguin Group U.S.A./Amy Einhorn Books2014 and Liedewij HawkeDundurn Press See also Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Forest of Reading Red Maple Award
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