The Pearson Prize
| The Gifts of Hockey |
The Gifts of Hockey was the 1st place 2010 FICTION winner of the Pearson Prize.
We are especially pleased to feature this title as the author Tom Holmes is a local Montreal resident. These six stories are set in a time where there were few indoor hockey rinks and many made the outdoor hockey rink their second home. So ready get ready and get out to the outdoor hockey rink where the game is usually decided by the fading light or a call from someone's mother. Click here to order a copy from Lulu.com |
| Shadowchild |
Shadowchild by C.E. Thornton was chosen by the student jury as the 2nd place FICTION winner of the 2010 Pearson Prize.
Benjamina James was like any other fifteen-year-old until the day a bolt of blue lightening struck her on the soccer field. She soon finds that she has strange abilities, including shooting fire and electricity from her hands and that she can blend completely into shadows without a trace. Come read and find out why so many students chose this thrilling novel as their number one selection! Click here to order a copy from Lulu.com |
| Nowhere Feels Like Home |
Again this year, author LK Gardner-Griffie picks up a Pearson Prize. After receiving the Pearson Prize in 2009 for her first novel, Misfit McCabe, Gardner-Griffie is back on our list for wooing jurors with the sequel "Nowhere Feels Like Home".
"LK's books are good, that's why kids like them... year after year." Michael Sweet, Prize Founder Click here to visit the author's site. |
| Under the Yellow & Red Stars |
Most exciting of all to the student jury was the selection of Alex Levin's Under the Yellow and Red Stars as the 2010 Pearson Prize winner for NON-FICTION.
Under the Yellow and Red Stars is the story of one eleven-year-old boy and his survival through one of humankind's most horrifying atrocities - the Holocaust. It is this book which inspired the Learning for a Cause students to write their own book in response - We Who Listened. "Mr. Levin's story is truly touching, horrifying, inspiring and memorable. It is a piece of literature that can change a life, it certainly changed mine." Sarah Di Iorio, Pearson Prize Student Juror Click here to visit the publisher. |
The Pearson Prize - Teen Choice Awards are a way of celebrating and recognizing small press books and their authors in public school. The annual contest is a way for the Learning for a Cause project to collect books for classroom use (without charge) and, at the same time, a way for small press authors to enter a contest and have a chance of winning a prize (without charge). Both authors and students benefit!
How it works:
The Pearson Prize is simple. You send TWO copies of your book to Learning for a Cause. Each June 1 we announce the winner and the runners-up for the Pearson Prize from all of the titles submitted to us in that year. All judging is done by actual high school students!
If you win:
We send you an award certificate, a Pearson Prize Seal (electronic version) which you can apply to your book cover, website, letterhead etc. and we also announce your book on our website and to the press (by way of press release).
Enter Now:
Simply mail TWO copies of your book with your complete contact information to:
The Pearson Prize
Attn: Michael Sweet
11 575 PM Favier Street
Montreal, Quebec
H1G 6E5
That's it, it's that simple!
How it works:
The Pearson Prize is simple. You send TWO copies of your book to Learning for a Cause. Each June 1 we announce the winner and the runners-up for the Pearson Prize from all of the titles submitted to us in that year. All judging is done by actual high school students!
If you win:
We send you an award certificate, a Pearson Prize Seal (electronic version) which you can apply to your book cover, website, letterhead etc. and we also announce your book on our website and to the press (by way of press release).
Enter Now:
Simply mail TWO copies of your book with your complete contact information to:
The Pearson Prize
Attn: Michael Sweet
11 575 PM Favier Street
Montreal, Quebec
H1G 6E5
That's it, it's that simple!
