| Year |
Author |
Title |
| 2009 |
Allan Stratton |
Chanda's Wars |
| 2008 |
Martha Brooks |
Mistik Lake |
| 2007 |
William Bell |
The Blue Helmet |
| 2006 |
Shyam Selvadurai |
Swimming in the Monsoon |
| 2005 |
Miriam Toews |
A Complicated Kindness |
| 2004 |
Polly Horvath |
The Canning Season |
| 2003 |
Martha Brooks |
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl |
| 2002 |
William Bell |
Stones |
| 2001 |
Beth Goobie |
Before Wings |
| 2000 |
Katherine Holubitsky |
Alone at Ninety Foot |
| 1999 |
Gayle Friesen |
Janey's Girl |
| 1998 |
Martha Brooks |
Bone Dance |
| 1997 |
R. P. MacIntyre - editor |
Takes: Stories for Young Adults |
| 1996 |
Tim Wynne-Jones |
The Maestro |
| 1995 |
Julie Johnston |
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me |
| 1994 |
Sean Stewart |
Nobody's Son |
| 1993 |
Karleen Bradford |
There Will Be Wolves |
| 1992 |
Susan Lynn Reynolds |
Strandia |
| 1991 |
Budge Wilson |
The Leaving |
| 1990 |
Diana Wieler |
Bad Boy |
| 1989 |
Helen Fogwell Porter |
January, February, June or July |
| 1988 |
Margaret Buffie |
Who Is Frances Rain? |
| 1987 |
Janet Lunn |
Shadow in Hawthorn Bay |
| 1986 |
Marianne Brandis |
The Quarter-Pie Window |
| 1985 |
Mary-Ellen Lang Collura |
Winners |
| 1984 |
O.R. Melling |
The Druid's Tune |
| 1983 |
Monica Hughes |
Hunter in the Dark |
| 1982 |
Jamie Brown |
Superbike |
| 1981 |
Kevin Major |
Far From Shore |
