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Oppel</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kenneth_Oppel_at_International_Literature_Festival_Berlin_on_September_9,_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Oppel (2016 at the Berlin International Literature Festival)"><img alt="Oppel (2016 at the Berlin International Literature Festival)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Kenneth_Oppel_at_International_Literature_Festival_Berlin_on_September_9%2C_2016.jpg/200px-Kenneth_Oppel_at_International_Literature_Festival_Berlin_on_September_9%2C_2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Kenneth_Oppel_at_International_Literature_Festival_Berlin_on_September_9%2C_2016.jpg/300px-Kenneth_Oppel_at_International_Literature_Festival_Berlin_on_September_9%2C_2016.jpg 1.5x, 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scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Writer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Canadian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Toronto" title="Trinity College, Toronto">Trinity College, Toronto</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1985–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style 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class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Philippa Sheppard</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">3</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kennethoppel.ca">kennethoppel<wbr />.ca</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Kenneth Oppel</b> (born August 31, 1967) is a Canadian children's writer. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Oppel was born in <a href="/wiki/Port_Alberni" title="Port Alberni">Port Alberni</a>, and spent his childhood in <a href="/wiki/Victoria,_British_Columbia" title="Victoria, British Columbia">Victoria, British Columbia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia" title="Halifax, Nova Scotia">Halifax, Nova Scotia</a>. He also lived in <a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_and_Labrador" title="Newfoundland and Labrador">Newfoundland and Labrador</a>, England, and Ireland. </p><p>In 1985, Oppel wrote his first book <i>Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-LCC_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LCC-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while at <a href="/wiki/St._Michaels_University_School" title="St. Michaels University School">St. Michaels University School</a>. He attended at the same time as actors <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Sabiston" title="Andrew Sabiston">Andrew Sabiston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Hope" title="Leslie Hope">Leslie Hope</a>, fellow writers John Burns and <a href="/wiki/Bert_Archer" title="Bert Archer">Bert Archer</a>, and just before the NBA's <a href="/wiki/Steve_Nash" title="Steve Nash">Steve Nash</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flickr" title="Flickr">Flickr</a> founder <a href="/wiki/Stewart_Butterfield" title="Stewart Butterfield">Stewart Butterfield</a>. Oppel forwarded the newly completed manuscript to a family friend who knew <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a>, who in turn recommended it to his agent. Oppel went on to receive his Bachelor of Arts degree in <a href="/wiki/Filmmaking" title="Filmmaking">cinema studies</a> and <a href="/wiki/English_studies" title="English studies">English</a> at <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Toronto" title="Trinity College, Toronto">Trinity College</a> in the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Toronto" title="University of Toronto">University of Toronto</a>, writing <i>The Live-Forever Machine</i> (1992) during his final year. Oppel moved to England and wrote a number of books during that period, gleaning several ideas while working at typing students' papers. From 1995 to 1996, Oppel worked as an editor at <i><a href="/wiki/Quill_%26_Quire" title="Quill & Quire">Quill & Quire</a></i>, the trade magazine of the Canadian publishing industry. </p><p>He wrote four books for the <a href="/wiki/Silverwing_novel_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Silverwing novel series">Silverwing novel series</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Silverwing_(novel)" title="Silverwing (novel)">Silverwing</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sunwing_(novel)" title="Sunwing (novel)">Sunwing</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Firewing" title="Firewing">Firewing</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Darkwing_(novel)" title="Darkwing (novel)">Darkwing</a></i>. He also wrote another series, the <i>Matt Cruse</i> saga, including <i><a href="/wiki/Airborn_(novel)" title="Airborn (novel)">Airborn</a></i> (2004), <i><a href="/wiki/Skybreaker" title="Skybreaker">Skybreaker</a></i> (2005) and <i><a href="/wiki/Starclimber" title="Starclimber">Starclimber</a></i> (2008). </p><p>Oppel has won numerous literary awards, including the 2004 <a href="/wiki/Governor_General%27s_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor General's Award">Governor General's Literary Award</a> for English language children's literature, a <a href="/wiki/Printz_Honor_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Printz Honor Award">Printz Honor Award</a> from the American Library Association (both for <i>Airborn</i>) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> Children's Novel of 2005 (for <i>Skybreaker</i>, named a 2006 <a href="/wiki/Best_Book_for_Young_Adults" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Book for Young Adults">Best Book for Young Adults</a> by the <a href="/wiki/American_Library_Association" title="American Library Association">American Library Association</a>). </p><p>Oppel is married to Philippa Sheppard, a Shakespeare scholar and instructor at the University of Toronto.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Young_adult_fiction">Young adult fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Young adult fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Half Brother</i> (2011)</li> <li><i>The Boundless</i> (2014)</li> <li><i>The Nest</i> (2015)</li> <li><i>Every Hidden Thing</i> (2016)</li> <li><i>Ghostlight</i> (2022)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Apprenticeship_of_Victor_Frankenstein">The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>This Dark Endeavor</i> (2011)</li> <li><i>Such Wicked Intent</i> (2012)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Silverwing_series">Silverwing series</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Silverwing series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Silverwing</i> (1997)</li> <li><i>Sunwing</i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Firewing" title="Firewing">Firewing</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Darkwing_(novel)" title="Darkwing (novel)">Darkwing</a></i> (2007); UK title, <i>Dusk</i> – prequel to the trilogy</li></ul> <p>The novel series was adapted into a TV series titled <i><a href="/wiki/Silverwing_(TV_series)" title="Silverwing (TV series)">Silverwing</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Airborn_series">Airborn series</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Airborn series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Airborn_(novel)" title="Airborn (novel)">Airborn</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Skybreaker" title="Skybreaker">Skybreaker</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Starclimber" title="Starclimber">Starclimber</a></i> (2008)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Overthrow_series">Overthrow series</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Overthrow series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Bloom</i> (2020)</li> <li><i>Hatch</i> (2020)<sup id="cite_ref-cbcBookListFall2020_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbcBookListFall2020-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Thrive</i> (2021)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other">Other</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Live-Forever Machine</i> (1990)</li> <li><i>Dead Water Zone</i> (1992)</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Children's_fiction"><span id="Children.27s_fiction"></span>Children's fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Children's fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Barnes_and_the_Brains">Barnes and the Brains</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Barnes and the Brains"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>A Bad Case of Ghosts</i> (1993)</li> <li><i>A Strange Case of Magic</i> (1994), or <i>A Bad Case of Magic</i></li> <li><i>A Crazy Case of Robots</i> (1994), or <i>A Bad Case of Robots</i></li> <li><i>An Incredible Case of Dinosaurs</i> (1994), or <i>A Bad Case of Dinosaurs</i></li> <li><i>A Weird Case of Super-Goo</i> (1997), or <i>A Bad Case of Super-Goo</i></li> <li><i>A Creepy Case of Vampires</i> (2002)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_2">Other</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure</i> (<a href="/wiki/E._P._Dutton" title="E. P. Dutton">E. P. Dutton</a>, 1985)<sup id="cite_ref-LCC_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LCC-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Cosimo Cat</i> (1990)</li> <li><i>Follow That Star</i> (1992)</li> <li><i>Cosmic Snapshots</i> (1993)</li> <li><i>Galactic Snapshots</i> (1993)</li> <li><i>Emma's Emu</i> (1995)</li> <li><i>Peg and the Whale</i> (2000)</li> <li><i>Peg and the Yeti</i> (2004)</li> <li><i>The King's Taster</i> (2009)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adult_fiction">Adult fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Adult fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Devil's Cure</i> (2000)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-LCC-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-LCC_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LCC_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lccn.loc.gov/84025911">"Colin's fantastic video adventure"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2020-10-29</span></span>. <q>Kenneth Oppel has written numerous acclaimed novels for middle grade and young adult readers. His Silverwing trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=CBC+Books&rft.atitle=The+most+exciting+books+coming+out+in+fall+2020&rft.date=2020-10-08&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fbooks%2Fthe-most-exciting-books-coming-out-in-fall-2020-1.5753872&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKenneth+Oppel" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1096530.The_Devil_s_Cure">"The Devil's Cure"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads">Goodreads</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 January</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Goodreads&rft.atitle=The+Devil%27s+Cure&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F1096530.The_Devil_s_Cure&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKenneth+Oppel" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <dl><dt>Other sources</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050204090831/http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/oppel.html"><i>CM</i> magazine profile of Oppel</a>, incorporating material from a 1996 interview</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.achuka.co.uk/special/oppel.htm">Interview by ACHUKA's Canadian Correspondent, Andrea Deakin</a> (2000)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101017184334/http://www.canscaip.org/bios/oppelk.html">Kenneth Oppel</a> at CANSCAIP Members (archived 2010-10-17), with short autobiography</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041206141651/http://redcedar.swifty.com/1999/Author_Bios/kenneth.htm">Red Cedar Awards Profile</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Oppel&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kennethoppel.ca">Official website</a></span></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?7699">Kenneth Oppel</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database" title="Internet Speculative Fiction Database">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/n84132329">Kenneth Oppel</a> at <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>, with 23 library catalog records</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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<i>Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army</i> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welwyn_Wilton_Katz" title="Welwyn Wilton Katz">Welwyn Wilton Katz</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Third_Magic" title="The Third Magic">The Third Magic</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_Wieler" title="Diana Wieler">Diana Wieler</a>, <i>Bad Boy</i> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Bedard" title="Michael Bedard">Michael Bedard</a>, <i>Redwork</i> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Ellis_(Canadian_writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarah Ellis (Canadian writer)">Sarah Ellis</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pick-Up_Sticks_(novel)" title="Pick-Up Sticks (novel)">Pick-Up Sticks</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julie_Johnston_(writer)" title="Julie Johnston (writer)">Julie Johnston</a>, <i>Hero of Lesser Causes</i> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Wynne-Jones" title="Tim Wynne-Jones">Tim Wynne-Jones</a>, <i>Some of the Kinder Planets</i> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julie_Johnston_(writer)" title="Julie Johnston (writer)">Julie Johnston</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Adam_and_Eve_and_Pinch-Me_(Johnston_novel)" title="Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me (Johnston novel)">Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Wynne-Jones" title="Tim Wynne-Jones">Tim Wynne-Jones</a>, <i>The Maestro</i> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Yee" title="Paul Yee">Paul Yee</a>, <i>Ghost Train</i> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kit_Pearson" title="Kit Pearson">Kit Pearson</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Awake_and_Dreaming" title="Awake and Dreaming">Awake and Dreaming</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_Lunn" title="Janet Lunn">Janet Lunn</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hollow_Tree" title="The Hollow Tree">The Hollow Tree</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachna_Gilmore" title="Rachna Gilmore">Rachna Gilmore</a>, <i>A Screaming Kind of Day</i> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deborah_Ellis" title="Deborah Ellis">Deborah Ellis</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Looking_for_X" title="Looking for X">Looking for X</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Slade" title="Arthur Slade">Arthur Slade</a>, <i>Dust</i> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martha_Brooks" title="Martha Brooks">Martha Brooks</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/True_Confessions_of_a_Heartless_Girl" title="True Confessions of a Heartless Girl">True Confessions of a Heartless Girl</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glen_Huser" title="Glen Huser">Glen Huser</a>, <i>Stitches</i> (2003)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Kenneth Oppel</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Airborn_(Oppel_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Airborn (Oppel novel)">Airborn</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pamela_Porter" title="Pamela Porter">Pamela Porter</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Crazy_Man" title="The Crazy Man">The Crazy Man</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Gilkerson" title="William Gilkerson">William Gilkerson</a>, <i>Pirate's Passage</i> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iain_Lawrence" title="Iain Lawrence">Iain Lawrence</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Gemini_Summer" title="Gemini Summer">Gemini Summer</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ibbitson" title="John Ibbitson">John Ibbitson</a>, <i>The Landing</i> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caroline_Pignat" title="Caroline Pignat">Caroline Pignat</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Greener_Grass:_The_Famine_Years" title="Greener Grass: The Famine Years">Greener Grass: The Famine Years</a></i> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wendy_Phillips_(author)" title="Wendy Phillips (author)">Wendy Phillips</a>, <i>Fishtailing</i> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Moore_(Canadian_historian)" title="Christopher Moore (Canadian historian)">Christopher Moore</a>, <i>From Then to Now: A Short History of the World</i> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susin_Nielsen" title="Susin Nielsen">Susin Nielsen</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Reluctant_Journal_of_Henry_K._Larsen" title="The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. 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