The two winning authors each receive a cash award.

This first book in Wielers popular trilogy introduces Rhan Van, a 15-year-old kid. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers.

It is presented to the two Manitoba writers whose books for young people are judged the best written. Ranvan: The Defender by Diana Wieler Ranvan book. RanVan, teenage knight-in-training, confronts his most challenging adversary yet in the paper-mill town of Thunder Bay, when a fellow video-game player draws him into a dangerous contest of wits and skill. As RanVan, the powerful knight of the video arcade game Stormers, he maneuvers through endless tunnels, braving insect-like attackers at every turn. Rhan, now 16, and his grandmother have moved in with cousin Zoe, a strange, abrasive woman who runs a shabby motel. This first book in Wieler's popular trilogy introduces Rhan Van, a 15-year-old kid with a foot in two worlds. The McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award is associated with the Manitoba Book Awards and was first sponsored by McNally Robinson Booksellers in 1997 and since then has been given in two categories: Young Adult and Children. As winter closes in and he settles into his new life in Thunder Bay, Rhan Van's victories in Vancouver seem a million miles away.

Ranvan by Diana Wieler