CLA Young Adult Book Award

Established 1980. Presented annually for creative literature: novel, play, or poetry. Work must be written by a Canadian and published in Canada. The award was originally established by the Saskatchewan Library Association.

• 1997 - R.P. MacIntyre, editor, Takes: Stories for Young Adults (Thistledown)

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  Honour Books for 1997:
  • O.R. Melling, My Blue Country (Viking/Penguin)
  • Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale (Tuckamore)

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• 1996 - Tim Wynne-Jones, The Maestro (Groundwood)

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  Honour Books for 1996:
  • Priscilla Galloway, Truly Grim Tales (Lester)
  • Welwyn Wilton Katz, Out of the Dark (Groundwood)
  • Michele Marineau, The Road to Chlifa (Red Deer College)

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• 1995 - Julie Johnson, Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
• 1994 - Sean Stewart, Nobody's Son
• 1993 - Karleen Bradford, There Will Be Wolves
• 1992 - Susan Lynn Reynold, Strandia
• 1991 - Budge Wilson, The Leaving
• 1990 - Diana Wieler, Bad Boy
• 1989 - Margaret Buffie, Who Is Frances Rain?
• 1988 - Helen Fogwell Porter, January, February, June or July
• 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