2022 Surrey Schools Book Awards winners – chosen by students!
Just in time for summer break, the student-chosen winners of the 2022 Surrey Schools Book Awards have been announced.
Held each year by the district’s teacher-librarians, the book awards invite students of all ages from across the district to vote on shortlist of nominated titles. The books are divided into the five categories: Book of the Year, Picture Book of the Year, Narrative Non-Fiction Book of the Year, Surrey Teens Read and – new this year – a French book award category called Livre de L'Annee.
This year, the winning title for Book of the Year (for intermediate readers) went to Go With the Flow by Karen Schneeman, a graphic novel about four friends who band together to change the world around them for the better. Click here to view previous books of the year.
The Barnabus Project, by the Fan Brothers was selected as this year’s winner for the Surrey Schools Picture Book of the Year (for primary readers). The story follows a half-mouse, half-elephant hybrid named Barnabus who decides to escape the laboratory in which he and his friends are being kept.
For the Narrative Non-Fiction Book of the Year, students selected The Spirit of the Springer, by Amanda Abler, the story of an orphaned orca named Springer who was found swimming alone in the Puget Sound in 2002.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson was the winner of the Surrey Teens Read category and follows the story of Pippa Fitz-Amobi as she attempts to solve a local murder case as a school project.
Finally, in the newly created French book award category Livre de L’Anee, the inaugural winner was Toto veut la pomme (Toto’s Apple) by Mathieu Lavoie, a story about a worm named Toto looking for ways to get to an apple up in a tree.
To see the rest of the nominees for this year, head to the Surrey Libraries web page for the Surrey Book Awards here.
To dive even deeper into the world of page-turners, Surrey Libraries also has a free Summer Reading Club for kids of all ages, as does the White Rock branch of Fraser Valley Regional Library. These annual book programs are a great way to keep students actively reading throughout the summer and to earn prizes for doing so.
