Amy Mathers is a woman on a mission. She’s reading a book every day for a year to raise money for a Canadian teen book award—something sorely missing from the annual awards bestowed by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC).
I heard Amy speak at this month’s EAC meeting. Her enthusiasm for Canada, Canadian books, and reading was obvious as she shared her story. She said authors were her rock stars—especially authors of teen books—and when she discovered the lack of a teen book award when she attended the CCBC Book Awards, she decided to do something about it.
Check out Amy’s website to make a donation to the cause or to peruse her reading list, book reviews, and blog.
According to Amy, New Brunswick was one of the toughest provinces for which to find teen novels. (Her first criterion when choosing books is that they be set in a Canadian province or territory.) She came up with a good list in the end, though, and it includes one of David Adams Richards’s novels.
And the most prolific province? That’d be Nova Scotia.