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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2008

Fiction

• Linda DeMeulemeester – The Secret of Grim Hill

Also shortlisted:

• David Jones – Baboon
• Cary Fagan – Directed by Kaspar Snit
• Deborah Ellis – Jakeman
• Becky Citra – Never to be Told
• Sarah Ellis – Odd Man Out
• Vicki Grant – Pigboy
• Melanie Jackson – Shadows on the Train
• K.V. Johansen – Torrie and the Snake-Prince
• David A. Poulsen – The Vampire's Visit

Non-Fiction

• Helaine Becker, Dave Whamond – Secret Agent Y.O.U.

Also shortlisted:

• Elizabeth MacLeod – Eleanor Rosevelt
• Barbara Greenwood – Factory Girl
• Jeff Szpirglas – Fear This Book
• Jan Thornhill – I Found A Dead Bird
• Jacob Berkowitz, Steve Mack – Jurassic Poop
• Charis Cotter – Kids Who Rule
• Rochelle Strauss, Rosemary Woods – One Well
• David Stubbs, Neal Portnoy – Our Game
• Herb Shoveller – Ryan and Jimmy

Express

• Dan Bar-el – Things are Looking Grimm, Jill

Also shortlisted:

• Aubrey Lang, Wayne Lynch – Baby Sea Turtle
• Katherine Holubitsky – The Big Snapper
• Veronika M. Charles, Annouchka Gravel Galouchko, Stephan Daigle – The Birdman
• Tom Schwarzkopf – Danger at Mason's Island
• Celia Godkin – Fire! A Renewal of a Forest
• Dianne Maycock – Lucky's Mountain
• Maggie de Vries, Renné Benoit – Tale of a Great White Fish
• Sylvia Olsen, Joan Larson – Yetsa's Sweater
• Ellen Schwartz – Yossi's Goal

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Added 21 March 2010.
Updated 11 January 2015.