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The Boxcar Children from the famed series by Gertrude Warner

The Gertrude Warner Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Middle Grade Fiction.  The Gertrude Warner Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Gertrude Warner Book Awards competition is named for Gertrude Chandler Warner, the wonderful author of The Boxcar Children.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Contemporary Middle Grade, SFF & Paranormal Middle Grade, Mystery Middle Grade, Historical Middle Grade, Adventure Middle Grade, and Graphic Novels. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them. For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards here and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards here.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Gertrude Warner Middle Grade Fiction Long List to the 2021 Gertrude Warner Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 Gertrude Warner Book Awards novel competition for Middle Grade Fiction!

Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

  • Didem Saracel – Story of Carbon
  • Clayton Marshall Adams – The Mask
  • Mary K. Savarese – The Girl in the Toile Wallpaper
  • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
  • B.L. Smith – Serious Business on Albatross Lane
  • K.P. Boardman – The Falling Sisters
  • Murray Richter – Fishing for Luck
  • J. B. Spector – The Sunlit Curse, Book 1 of The Mer-Prince Adventures
  • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
  • James Love – Max Voltage: Multiverse Mayhem
  • Ben Gartner – Sol Invictus
  • Ronnie Swire Siegel – Displaced: A Story About Climate Change and How Displaced Animals Ring the Alarm
  • Esta Lemon – The Loser Blog
  • KS Mitchell – The Mystery of the Golden Ball: Pen & Quin International Agents of Intrigue
  • McKemie Huston – Return of the Last Prism
  • Emmett J Hall – RUNAWAY
  • Dane S. Skorup – Kid Kingmaker
  • Raea Gragg – Mup
  • Moira Siobhan – Dilly Cooper Hat-astrophe
  • Laurie Calkhoven – Roosevelt Banks, Good-Kid-in-Training
  • Peter Solomon – The Stardust Mystery
  • D. H. Timpko – The Firma Twins and the Flute of Enchantment
  • Susan McCormick – The Antidote
  • Gloria Two-Feathers – Buck Keeper of the Meadow
  • Jay Spencer – The Phantom Airplane Mystery

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Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 GERTRUDE WARNER Awards is Kelly Oliver for Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter

Cover of Kassy O'Roarke Cub Reporter by Kelly Oliver

A blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Gertrude Warner Middle Grade Readers Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter by Kelly Oliver
Click here to see the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Award Winners for Middle Grade Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

Please click here for more information.

For our other Youth Reader Fiction Awards, please see the following:

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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