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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2013

Fiction

• Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch – Making Bombs For Hitler

Also shortlisted:

• Ingrid Lee – Cat Found
• Evan Munday – The Dead Kid Detective Agency
• Janet McNaughton – Dragon Seer's Gift
• Allan Stratton – The Grave Robber's Apprentice
• Christopher Paul Curtis – The Mighty Miss Malone
• Becky Citra – Missing
• Kevin Sylvester – Neil Flambé and the Crusader's Curse
• Steve Vernon – Sinking Deeper Or My Heroic Decision to Invent a Sea Monster
• Cyndi Sand-Eveland – A Tinfoil Sky

Non-fiction

• Rob Laidlaw – No Shelter Here

Also shortlisted:

• Tanya Lloyd Kyi, Ross Kinnaird – 50 Underwear Questions
• Larry Verstraete – Case Files: 40 Murders and Mysteries Solved by Science
• Andreas Schroeder, Rémy Simard – Duped! True Stories of the World's Best Swindlers
• Etta Kaner, Stephen MacEachern – Earth-Friendly Buildings, Bridges and More
• Frieda Wishinsky, Bill Dickson – Explorers Who Made it ... or Died Trying
• Wendy Kitts – Sable Island: The Wandering Sandbar
• Rachel A. Qitsualik, Emily Fiegenschuh, Larry MacDougall – The Shadows that Rush Past
• Janet Wilson – Shannen and the Dream for a School
• Kathy Kacer – To Hope and Back: The Journey of the St. Louis

Express

• Brit Trogen, Kari Trogen – Margaret and the Moth Tree

Also shortlisted:

• Daniel Loxton, Jim W.W. Smith – Ankylosaur Attack
• Mike Deas – Dalen & Gole
• Janice Weaver, Chris Lane – Harry Houdini
• Monica Kulling, David Parkins – In The Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps It Up
• Natalie Hyde – I Owe You One
• Susan Vande Griek, Karen Reczuch – Loon
• Eric Walters, Eva Campbell – Matatu
• Lois Peterson – The Paper House
• Karen Patkau – Who Needs a Swamp?

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Added 14 July 2013.
Updated 26 June 2014.