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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2012

Fiction

• David Skuy – Undergrounders

Also shortlisted:

• Anna Kerz – Better Than Weird
• Virginia Frances Schwartz – Crossing to Freedom
• Jacqueline Guest – Ghost Messages
• Julie Lawson – Ghosts of the Titanic
• Valerie Sherrard – The Glory Wind
• Colleen Sydor – The McGillicuddy Book of Personal Records
• Alan Silberberg – Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
• Kevin Sylvester – Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction
• Rachna Gilmore – That Boy Red

Non-fiction

• Catherine Rondina, Kevin Sylvester – Don't Touch That Toad & Other Strange Things Adults Tell You

Also shortlisted:

• Tanya Lloyd Kyi, Ross Kinnaird – 50 Poisonous Questions
• Bathseba Opini, Richard B. Lee – Africans Thought of It
• Keltie Thomas – Animals That Changed the World
• Susan Hughes, Michael Wandelmaier – Case Closed?
• Kevin Sylvester – Game Day
• Kathy Stinson – Highway of Heroes
• Lynda Colgan, Jane Kurisu – Mathemagic! Number Tricks
• Cynthia Pratt Nicolson, Dianne Eastman – Totally Human
• Jan Thornhill – Who Wants Pizza?

Express

• Jan Andrews, Dušan Petricic – When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew

Also shortlisted:

• Monica Kulling, Bill Slavin – All Aboard! Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine
• Cary Fagan, Selçuk Demirel – Banjo of Destiny
• Gordon Lightfoot, Ian Wallace – Canadian Railroad Trilogy
• Philippa Dowding – The Gargoyle Overhead
• Rebecca Upjohn – The Last Loon
• Janet Wilson – Our Earth: How Kids are Saving the Planet
• Natalie Hyde – Saving Arm Pit
• Don Gillmor – The Time Time Stopped
• Simon Awa, Anna Ziegler, Stephanie McDonald, Leah Otak, Romi Caron – Uumajut

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Added 14 July 2013.
Updated 11 January 2015.