Red Cedar Book Awards -- Fiction Nominees 2025-2026

The Red Cedar is British Columbia’s Young Reader’s Choice book award for grades 4-7. Children, families, and educators read from the nominated short-lists of Canadian fiction and non-fiction, discuss, and then vote in mid-Spring for their favourite books. Voting starts in May; winners are announced in early June.

Find out more about Red Cedar by visiting their website: https://www.redcedaraward.ca/

Updated December 15, 2025
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Greater Victoria Public Library
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Mortified
Jackson, Kristy
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOREST OF READING SILVER BIRCH AWARD "Brilliant, funny, unputdownable."- Alice Kuipers, award-winning children's author For fans of Remarkably Ruby and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, comedy...
The outsmarters
Ellis, Deborah
Paper Book
What can you do when the adult world lets you down? Suspended from school and prone to rages, twelve-year-old Kate finds her own way to get on with her life, despite the messed-up adults around her. Her gran, for one, is stubborn and aloof -- not unlike Kate herself, who has no friends,...

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