Making Bombs for Hitler (Scholastic Canada) by Ukrainian-Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch has been announced as the winner of the 2014 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award, an annual prize that considers all Canadian novels written in English for a middle-grade audience. Gordon Korman’s Ungifted and Joanne Levy’s Small Medium at Large  were selected as the 2014 MYRCA Honour Books.

MYRCA also announced its shortlist for the 2015 award. The nominees are:

• The Cats of Tanglewood Forest by Charles de Lint (Little, Brown/Hachette)
• The Hidden Agenda of Sigrid Sugden by Jill MacLean (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
• Home Ice Advantage by Tom Earle (HarperCollins Canada)
• Loki’s Wolves by K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr (Little, Brown/Hachette)
• The Metro Dogs of Moscow by Rachelle Delaney (Puffin Canada)
• Morven and the Horse Clan by Luanne Armstrong (Great Plains Publications)
• The Oathbreaker’s Shadow by Amy McCulloch (Doubleday Canada)
• The Phantom’s Gold by Eric Murphy (Dancing Cat Books)
• Prince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff by Robert Paul Weston (Puffin Canada)
• Red River Stallion by Troon Harrison (Bloomsbury)
• Running Scared by Beverley Terrell-Deutsch (Red Deer Press)
• Sabotage by  Karen Autio (Sono Nis Press)
• Scare Scape by Sam Fisher (Scholastic Canada)
• The Spotted Dog Last Seen by Jessica Scott Kerrin (Groundwood Books)
• Ultra by David Carroll (Scholastic Canada)
• The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten (Doubleday Canada)
• Urgle by Meaghan McIsaac (Dancing Cat Books)
• Whatever Doesn’t Kill You by Elizabeth Wennick (Orca Book Publishers)