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March 4, 2010 2:18 PM

Shortlisted for YA Book of the year Award

I’m so thrilled to share the news that Girl on the Other Side has been shortlisted by the Canadian Library Association for their YA Book of the Year Award!

Here’s the official blurb the CLA website: “This award recognizes an author of an outstanding English-language Canadian work of fiction (novel, collection of short stories or graphic novel), published in 2009, that appeals to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18.”

And I’m in some pretty incredible company here - check out the full list of nominees:

• Poster Boy by Dede Crane (Groundwood)

• Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant (Alfred A. Knopf)

• Not Suitable for Family Viewing by Vicki Grant (HarperCollins)

• Haunted by Barbara Haworth-Attard (HarperCollins)

• Girl on the Other Side by Deborah Kerbel (Dundurn)

• Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston (HarperCollins)

• The Gryphon Project by Carrie Mac (Puffin)

• Dragon Seer by Janet McNaughton (HarperCollins)

• Vanishing Girl by Shane Peacock (Tundra)

• The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade (HarperCollins)

I’m hugely excited and so incredibly honoured to be included on this shortlist!!

:-)