A group of students from East York C.I. today went down to the Harbor Front in celebration to the announcement of the winners among the nominees for 2012.
Two sections, and a total of 20 books were at stake this year compared to the usual ten.
The Book List
Fiction Books
- Ashes Ashes (Treggiari, Jo)
- Beat the Band (Calame, Don)
- Blood Red Road (Young, Moria)
- Chance to Dance for You (Sobat, Gail Sidonie)
- Death Benefits (Harvey, Sarah N)
- Motorcycles & Sweetgrass (Taylor Drew Hayden)
- Something Wicked (Cowan, Leslie Anne)
- The Fifth Rule (Aker, Don)
- The Gathering (Armstrong, Kelly)
- The Way It Is (Ried, Donalda J)
Non- Fiction Books
- Call Me Russell (Peter, Russell)
- Canada's Wars (Webb, Jonathan)
- Hockey Now! (Leonetti, Mike)
- I.D. (Scowen, Kate)
- Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit (Rand, Tom)
- Nice Recovery (Juby, Susan)
- Stick to Your Vision (Maestro, Fresh- Wes)
- The Book Of Awesome (Pasricha, Neil)
- Two Generals (Chantler Scott)
- Will To Live (Stroud, Les)
When students first got there, they went to a set of workshop with two authors of their choice. They enjoyed listing to the opinion of the Authors of selected books.
During a small break students could wander to booths outside, such as one where you can make buttons, another sold the Forest of Reading books, and etc.
Afterwards it was time to announce the two winners. The authors came on stage and were introduced by students. Our hosting MC is our previous winner Richard Scarsbrook.
The announcing winners are:
For Fiction: Kelly Armstrong, The Gathering
For Non-Fiction: Neil, Pasricha, The Book of Awesome
Students went out to stalls and shops for lunch. One last workshop of your choice with the authors was presented and afterwards the day had ended for WhitePine readers.
Leaving the water front and going back to school the students buzzed in the bus relaxing-ly. All in all, it was a nice day.
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Melika Wong