2007

Winner

The Blue Helmet by William Bell (Doubleday Canada)

Honour Books

Johnny Kellock Died Today by Hadley Dyer (HarperCollins Canada)
The Droughtlanders by Carrie Mac (Penguin Canada)

2006

Winner

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai, (Tundra Books)

Honour Book

The Isabel Factor by Gayle Friesen(Kids Can Press)

Shortlist

William Bell, Just some stuff I wrote (Doubleday)
Beverly Brenna, Wild Orchid (Red Deer)
Fried, Golda, Nelcott is My Darling (Coach House)
Gayle Friesen, The Isabel Factor (Kids Can Press)
John Geddes, The Sundog Season (Turnstone)
Natale Ghent, The Book of Living and Dying (HarperCollins)
Kenneth Oppel, Skybreaker (HarperCollins)
Shyam Selvadurai, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea (Tundra)
Christopher Willard, Garbage Head (Esplanade)
Sarah Withrow, What Gloria Wants (Groundwood)

2005

Winner

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)

Honour Books

The Beckoners by Carrie Mac (Orca)
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel (HarperCollins)

Other Nominees

Chanda's Secrets, Allan Stratton
Esther, Sharon McKay
Hippie House, Katherine Holubitsky
Skinny, Ibi Kaslik
Smoke and Mirrors, Lesley Choyce
Susanna's Quill, Julie Johnston
Thief in the House of Memory, Tim Wynne-Jones

2004

Winner

The Canning Season by Polly Horvath (Groundwood Books)

Honour Book

An Earthly Knight by Janet McNaughton (Harper Collins Canada)

Other Nominees

Ordinary Miracles Diana Aspin (Red Deer Press)
Theories of Relativity Barbara Haworth-Attard (HarperTrophy Canada)
Tom Finder Martine Leavitt (Red Deer Press)
Cheeseburger Subversive Richard Scarsbrook (Thistledown Press)
Initiation Virginia Schwartz (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Becoming Ruby Kathy Stinson (Penguin Canada)
More than you Can Chew Marnelle Tokio (Tundra Books)
Throwaway Daughter Ting-xing Ye (Doubleday Canada)

2002

Winner

Stones by William Bell (Doubleday)

2001

Katherine Holubitsky. Alone at Ninety Foot. Orca Book Publishers.