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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2000

Fiction

• Kathy Kacer – The Secret of Gabi's Dresser

Also shortlisted:

• Wilma E. Alexander – Run For Your Life
• Linda Bailey – How Can A Brilliant Detective Shine in the Dark?
• Sandra Birdsell – The Town That Floated Away
• Karleen Bradford – Lionheart's Scribe
• Bill Freeman – Sioux Winter
• Monica Hughes – The Other Place
• Peggy Dymond – Sky Lake Summer
• Richard Scrimger – The Way to Schenectady
• Joan Weir – The Principal's Kid

Non-Fiction

• Sheree Fitch – If You Could Wear My Sneakers

Also shortlisted:

• Les Harding – McCurdy and the Silver Dart
• Etta Kaner – Animal Defenses
• Elizabeth Macleod – Alexander Graham Bell
• Cynthia Pratt Nicholson – The Stars
• Ann-Maureen Owens, Jane Yealland – Canada's Maple Leaf
• Andy Turnbull, Debora Pearson – By Truck to the North
• Mary Wallace – The Inuksuk Book
• David Wistow, Kelly McKinley – Meet the Group of Seven
• Valerie Wyatt – Earthlings Inside and Out

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Added 21 March 2010.
Updated 11 January 2015.