The Canadian Library Association has announced the shortlists for its three annual children’s book awards.

The finalists for the the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award, and the CLA Young Adult Book Award were selected by CLA librarians from across the country. The winners will be announced the week of April 14 and presented at the CLA’s National Conference and Trade Show in Victoria on May 29.

Here are the shortlists:

CLA Book of the Year for Children Award

• Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve History’s Mysteries, Elizabeth MacLeod (Annick Press)
• Curse of the Dream Witch, Allan Stratton (Scholastic Canada)
• Driftwood, Valerie Sherrard (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
• How to Curse in Hieroglyphics, Lesley Livingston and Jonathan Llyr (Puffin Canada)
• The Legend of Lightning and Thunder, Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt; Jo Rioux, illus. (Inhabit Media)
• Me and Mr. Bell, Philip Roy (Cape Breton University Press)
• The Metro Dogs of Moscow, Rachelle Delaney (Puffin Canada)
• Prince Pugley of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff, Robert Paul Weston; Victor Rivas Villa, illus. (Puffin Canada)
• The Spotted Dog Last Seen, Jessica Scott Kerrin (Groundwood Books)
• The Stowaways, Meghan Marentette; Dean Griffiths, illus. (Pajama Press)

Amelia Frances Howard”Gibbon Illustrator’s Award

• A Long Way Away, Frank Viva (HarperCollins)
• The Dark, Jon Klassen; text by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins)
• Francis the Little Fox, Katty Maurey; text by Véronique Boisjoly (Kids Can Press)
• Jane, the Fox and Me, Isabelle Arsenault; text by Fanny Britt (Groundwood)
• The Legend of Lightning and Thunder, Jo Rioux; text by Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt (Inhabit)
• Little You, Julie Flett; text by Richard Van Camp (Orca Book Publishers)
• Loula Is Leaving for Africa, Anne Villeneuve (Kids Can)
• The Man With the Violin, DuÅ¡an Petričić; text by Kathy Stinson (Annick)
• Northwest Passage, Matt James; text by Stan Rogers (Groundwood)
• Once Upon a Northern Night, Isabelle Arsenault; text by Jean E. Pendziwol (Groundwood)

CLA Young Adult Book Award

• Audacious, Gabrielle Prendergast (Orca)
• The Color of Silence, Liane Shaw (Second Story Press)
• Graffiti Knight, Karen Bass (Pajama Press)
• The Gypsy King, Maureen Fergus (Razorbill)
• Little Red Lies, Julie Johnston (Tundra Books)
• Nix Minus One, Jill MacLean (Pajama Press)
• Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl, Emily Pohl-Weary (Razorbill)
• The Oathbreaker’s Shadow, Amy McCulloch (Doubleday Canada)
• The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley, Jan Andrews (Great Plains Publications)
• The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B, Teresa Toten (Doubleday Canada)