network YTV. Two more adaptations aired there the following year, April 1, 2017. Other optioned books include No Coins, Please, I Want to Go Home, the Island trilogy and The Twinkie Squad. Awards and recognition Air Canada Award for promising authors in Canada, at age 17 1991 Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award (chosen by Manitoba schoolchildren), The Zucchini Warriors (1988) 1999 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993) 2001 American Library Association Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, Losing Joe's Place (1990) 2001 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1993) 2003 ALA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, Son of the Mob (2002) 2003 Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (chosen by Pacific NW schoolchildren), Intermediate Division (Grades 7–9), No More Dead Dogs (2003) 2004 ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Jake Reinvented (2003) 2005 PNLA Young Reader's Choice Award – Intermediate, Son of the Mob (2002) 2010 PNLA Young Reader's Choice Award – Intermediate, Schooled (2007) 2010–2011 Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (by vote of Arkansas schoolchildren), Swindle (2008) 2011–2012 Charlie May Simon Award, Zoobreak (2009) 2016 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature 2020 Young Hoosier Book Award (Intermediate), Restart (2017) See also References External links 1963 births Living people Canadian children's writers Child writers People from Côte Saint-Luc People from Thornhill, Ontario New York University alumni Canadian emigrants to the United States