No Shelter Here, Making the World a Kinder Place for Dogs won the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award on May 30, 2014. The awards ceremony took place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and was attended by hundreds of young readers and adults.
The Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award is a reading program that encourages a love of reading among children in grades 4–6 in Canada’s Atlantic provinces. Participating students choose their favourite books from among a list of 10 in each category: English Fiction, English Non-Fiction, French Fiction, and French Non-Fiction. You can read about this year’s other three winners here.