Many of my books have been nominated for numerous awards throughout Canada, such as the Canadian Library Association Award, Hackmatack, and BC Book Awards. Six years later I + show more was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award. WHEN CHILDREN PLAY is my first non-fiction book for middle readers and tells how healing play can be when brought back into the lives of the most disadvantaged children in the world.Īwards and Recognition:I won the Governor General's Award for Teaching Excellence in Canadian History. This series is full of adventure and fun, while also addressing different periods in Canadian history. And A BONE TO PICK is all about the Vikings who landed a thousand years ago on the shores of Newfoundland. BONE DEEP takes the reader out to sea to find a two hundred year old sunken ship from the Pacific fur trade. Ruby Jean narrates her own life story from the death of her childhood caregiver to her adult attempt to leave Woodlands forever. institution that operated from 1878 to 1996) because she has Down’s syndrome. BROKEN BONES takes place during the harsh life of an early Canadian pioneer. Free as a Bird chronicles the life of Ruby Jean Sharp, an eight-year-old who must live at Woodlands School (a real B.C. Tyranny Gina McMurchy-Barber, Free as a Bird Cheryl Rainfield, Scars.

READING THE BONES, the first of my archaeology adventure series, takes the reader into the past to learn about the prehistoric Coast Salish people. The shortlisted nominees for the 2010 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit were. It is the life of a girl with Down Syndrome living in an institution in the1970s. The book that earned me a Governor General Literary nomination and five other award nominations was FREE AS A BIRD. It won the 2021 Silver Birch Award and is nominated for the 2022 Diamond Willow Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Awards, and the Chocolate Lily Awards. My latest middle grade novel is THE JIGSAW PUZZLE KING.

Free as a Bird by Gina McMurchy-Barber