The Silver Birch Award is voted on by children in grades three to six for their favourite book by a Canadian author.

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1997

Fiction

• Eric Walters – Stars

Also shortlisted:

• John Danakas – Hockey Night In Transcona
• Betty Dorion – Melanie Bluelake's Dream
• Adele Dueck – Anywhere But Here
• Monica Hughes – Where Have You Been, Billy Boy?
• Julie Lawson – Cougar Cove
• Mordecai Richler – Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case
• Ellen Schwartz – Starshine On T.V
• Andrea Spalding – Finders Keepers
• Cora Taylor – Summer of the Mad Monk

Non-Fiction

• Shelley Tanaka – On Board the Titanic

Also shortlisted:

• Nyla Ahmad – Cybersurfer
• Jane Drake, Ann Love – The Kids Campfire Book
• Sylvia Funston – Scary Science
• Linda Granfield – In Flanders Fields
• Pamela Hickman – The Night Book
• Adrienne Mason – Oceans
• Ann-Maureen Owens, Jane Yealland – Forts of Canada
• Diane Swanson – Buffalo Sunrise
• Jan Thornhill – Wild in the City

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Added 21 March 2010.
Updated 11 January 2015.