The selection committee for Quebec’s Prix jeunesse des univers parallèles 2025 (the Parallel Universe Youth Award) announced the winner on April 9.

• Alizée: Tome 1 L’Été sans fin by Sylvie Payette 

The other two finalists were:

• Les Abysses La mine by Annie Bacon
• Le Maître de l’eau by Stéphane Achille

The award is given to the best children’s sff novel by vote of high school students in Quebec. A $2,000 grant, half of which came from the Jacques Brossard Trust, was awarded to the author. 

The selection committee that chose the finalists from the 18 titles in the running was composed of Valérie Harvey, sociologist, children’s author and winner of the prize in 2018; Sylvie Drouin, teacher at De Rochebelle high school in Quebec City; and Samuel Albert, librarian in the Quebec City library network.