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30 Ontario School Library association Forest of Reading 2009 | Festival of Trees Winners Blue Spruce Award: Mélanie Watt, Chester (Kids Can Press/University of Toronto Press) Silver Birch Express Award: Alan Cumyn, Dear Sylvia (Groundwood Books/ HarperCollins Canada) Silver Birch Fiction Award: Mahtab Narsimhan, The Third Eye (Dundurn Group/ University of Toronto Press) Silver Birch Non-fiction Award: Kevin Sylvester, Gold Medal for Weird (Kids Can Press/ University of Toronto Press) Red Maple Fiction Award: Norah McClintock, Out of the Cold (Scholastic Canada, Ltd.) Red Maple Non-fiction Award: Elizabeth MacLeod, Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns (Annick Press/Firefly Books) White Pine Award: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother (Tor Books/H.B. Fenn and Company) Honour Books Blue Spruce Award: Honour Book #1--Such a Prince by Dan Bar-El, illustrated by John Manders (Clarion) Honour Book #2--Stanley at Sea by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Bill Slavin (Kids Can Press) Silver Birch Express Award: Honour Book #1--Feather Brain by Maureen Bush (Orca Book Publishers) Honour Book #2--Boy in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story by Ainslie Manson (Greystone Books) Silver Birch Fiction Award: Honour Book #1--Swindle by Gordon Korman (Scholastic Canada, Ltd.) Honour Book #2--Eye of the Crow: The Boy Sherlock Holmes by Shane Peacock (Tundra Books) Silver Birch Non-fiction Award: Honour Book #1--Everything But the Kitchen Sink: Weird Stuff You Didn't Know About Food by Frieda Wishinsky and Elizabeth MacLeod (Scholastic Canada, Ltd.) Honour Book #2--Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many by Ann Alma (Groundwood Books) Red Maple Fiction Award: Honour Book #1--Egghead by Caroline Pignat (Red Deer Press) Honour Book #2--Frost by Nicole Luiken (Great Plains) Red Maple Non-fiction Award: Honour Book #1--SOS: Stories of Survival by Ed Butts (Tundra Books) Honour Book #2--Fire on the Water by Wendy Lewis (James Lorimer & Company, Ltd.) White Pine Award: Honour Book #1--After River by Donna Milner (HarperCollins Canada) Honour Book #2--Gravity Journal by Gail Sidonie Sobat (Great Plains Publications) Mélanie Watt talks blue Spruce. Check out Kevin Sylvester's Silver birch non-fiction award! the Silver birch Express nominated authors line up for the award ceremony.