The Canning Season

The Canning Season is a young adult novel by American-Canadian author Polly Horvath. It was first published in 2003 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Awards and honors
The Horn Book Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune School Library Journal, and The Washington Post included The Canning Season in their lists of the best children's books of 2003.

It also received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly.