Announcing the Winners of the 2024 YAdudebooks Awards

CONGRATULATIONS to the 14 winners of our 2024 Reviewers’ Choice Awards at www.YAdudebooks.ca!

Every February, our book reviewers select their favorite two books of the previous calendar year. As portrayed on the poster above here are this year’s results.

WINNERS

Eric Walters: Houston Is There a Problem? (Orca Book); Reviewer Dev Nair

Thien Pham: Family Style (First Second); Reviewer Dev Nair

Kenneth Oppel: Ghostlight (Alfred Knopf); Reviewer James Steeves

Kevin Sylvester: Apartment 713 (Harper Collins); Reviewer James Steeves

Kristen Simmons: Find Him Where You Left Him Dead (Tor); Kevin Velayo

Tracy Hewitt Meyer: Generation Annihilation (BHC); Reviewer Kevin Velayo

Katy Grant: Three Shots (West 44); Reviewer Matt Gill

Dan Solomon: The Fight for Midnight (North Star); Reviewer Matt Gill

Wab Kinew: The Everlasting Road (Penguin Randomhouse); Reviewer Matt Shipley

Andrew Varga: The Celtic Deception (Imbrifex); Reviewer Matt Shipley

Christine Weldon: Knight of the Rails (Red Deer Press); Reviewer Pam Withers

William Loren Katz: Breaking the Chains (Seven Stories); Reviewer Pam Withers

Kalynn Bayron: My Dear Henry (Feiwel & Friends); Reviewer Weldon Ngetich

Anthony Nerada: Skater Boy (Soho Teen); Reviewer Weldon Ngetich

We’re proud of our reviewers and our book-review and author-profile website. Check it out!

https://yadudebooks.ca/reviewers/

https://yadudebooks.ca/booklist/

https://yadudebooks.ca/authors-list/

YAdudebooks was founded in March 2021. Aimed at middle-grade (MG) and young-adult (YA) educators, parents and teen readers, it now offers more than 200 book reviews and close to 50 author interviews, including some of the most prominent MG/YA authors in the world.

Congratulations again to the 2024 YAdudebooks Reviewers’ Choice Award winners. Please pass this along to your friends and colleagues.

Finally, thanks to the authors who keep writing and the publishers who keep publishing MG & YA books with appeal to boys in particular. It’s our special niche!

- Pam Withers, founder