A charming and strangely attentive scientist, Sebastian Faraday, helps Alison unravel the secrets of her past and of her extraordinary sensory gifts. But with no body found, and only fractured memories of what actually happened, Alison fears she’s going insane. The Sunburst jury says: “A compelling and intricately woven fantasy about prejudice, mental illness, and coming to terms with the layers of history and identity, Ultraviolet is the story of Alison, an emotionally starved and socially isolated sixteen-year-old, who has awesome synesthesiac abilities.She awakens in a psychiatric centre having confessed to disintegrating the popular school beauty, Tori Beaugrand. The young adult shortlist is listed below. The winners receive their awards in the fall of every year. Named after the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb (1926–2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian science fiction, the awards consist of a cash award of $1,000 and a medallion which incorporates a specially designed “Sunburst” logo. The awards are presented annually to Canadian writers with a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection of speculative fiction published any time during the previous calendar year. This is a juried award to recognize stellar writing in two categories: adult and young adult. The shortlists for the 2012 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced. Get Published: The Writing for Children Kit.Bibliovideo: Canadian Kids’ Books on YouTube.How You Can Help the CCBC – A resource for educators.Donate to the David Booth Children’s and Youth Poetry Award.Donate to the Jean Little First Novel Award.Donate to Canadian Children’s Book Week.CCBC Articles of Continuance and By-laws.

The Blue Roan Child by Jamieson Findlay