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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Bertie Stewart is perfectly imperfect
Mosher, Melanie
Paper Book
A heartfelt middle grade novel exploring anxiety from the TD Canadian Children's Award--shortlisted author of A Beginner's Guide to Goodbye. Bertha Mae Stewart--otherwise known as Bertie--is ready for anything grade 6 can throw at her. She spends every day with her best...

Also available in Libby as an e-book.

Call me Al
Shah, Wali (Poet)
Paper Book
Ali is an eighth-grade kid with a lot going on. Between the pressure from his immigrant parents to ace every class, his crush on Melissa, who lives in the rich area of town while he and his family live in a shabby apartment complex, and trying his best to fit in with his friends, he feels...

Also available in Libby as an e-book and e-audiobook.

Eyes on the ice
Rosner, Anna
Paper Book
In 1963, under the brutal Communist regime, two hockey-loving brothers must throw a game in a Soviet-Czech tournament to help their imprisoned father. Ten-year-old Lukas and his brother Denys want nothing more than to play hockey, but it's 1963, and they live in Czechoslovakia, where the...

Also available in Libby as an e-book.

Iggy included
Kerbel, Deborah
Paper Book
A girl, a dog and a summer they won't forget. Twelve-year-old Paige Coopersmith and her family have won a house in an essay-writing contest. Excited to leave their cramped apartment and move to a sprawling property in rural Ontario, they're more than a little surprised to find the house is...
Izzy Wong's nose for news
Chan, Marty
Paper Book
Izzy Wong's got a new podcast--and this time she's going to uncover the whole story. A sixth-grade student with a purpose, Izzy wants to start her own hit investigative podcast. When the girls' washroom at her school mysteriously floods, she's finally got the perfect subject. It doesn't...

Also available in Libby as an e-book.

Misadventures in ghosthunting
Yue, Melissa
Paper Book
"Creepy, magical, and full of heart, [Misadventures in Ghosthunting] heralds the arrival of a talent to watch!" - Joel A. Sutherland, author of House of Ash and Bone and Haunted Canada series. Emma Wong is struggling to tell her parents about a lot of things. Getting a D on her math test,...

Also available in Libby as an e-book.

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...
Team park
Ahn, Angela
Paper Book
Eleven-year-old Evan Park's dad believes boys should play team sports, but as much as Evan has tried to like soccer and other team sports, he just doesn't. And when an accident causes Evan to break his wrist, he is determined that once he heals, he'll work on finding his thing. Alone. Inspired by...

Also available in Libby as an e-book and e-audiobook.

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,...

Also available in Libby as an e-book.


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