The Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award for Fiction (English) is voted on by children in Atlantic Canada who are in grades four to six.

2008

• Julie Lawson – No Safe Harbour

Also shortlisted:

• Becky Citra – Never to be Told
• Hadley Dyer – Johnny Kellock Died Today
• Jacqueline Guest – Secret Signs
• Jessica Scott Kerrin – Martin Bridge: Blazing Ahead
• Michael Kusugak – Curse of the Shaman
• Jacqueline Pearce – Truth About Rats (and Dogs)
• Robert Rayner – Out of Sight
• Tom Schwarzkopf – Danger at Mason's Island
• Budge Wilson – Izzie, Book 4: Homecoming

Added 05 October 2008.
Updated 05 October 2008.