by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2026
Saving Wolfgang Gregor CraigiePublisher: Orca Book Publishers Book Description When Wolfgang’s father dies, everything changes. Wolfie and his mother move to Calgary to stay with his grandfather, and Wolfie starts at a new school. Consumed by sadness, his mother stops...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2026
A Drop in the Ocean Lea TarantoPublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Book Description Sixteen-year-old Mira Durand has just been checked into the secure unit of the Residency Adolescent Treatment Centre for obsessive compulsive and comorbid disorders. Four years of being...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2026
Messy Perfect Tanya BotejuPublisher: HarperCollins Publishing Ltd. Book Description Cassie Perera is a star student in St. Luke’s junior class. But the new school year brings an unwelcome surprise—the return to St. Luke’s of Cassie’s former friend, Ben, who left a few...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2026
Enemy Alien Paul Wong and Tamio Wakayama Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing Book Description Wakayama was born in New Westminster, British Columbia mere months before Pearl Harbor and was soon forcibly relocated with his parents to an internment camp for Japanese...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2026
Once upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It Tells Robert J. Muckle Publisher: UBC Press, Purich Books Book Description With evidence of human habitation dating back 15,000 years to the last ice age, British Columbia boasts a fascinating...