Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People is awarded annually to reward excellence in the writing of an outstanding work of historical fiction for young readers, by a Canadian author, published in the previous calendar year. The Award is administered by the Canadian Children's Book Centre.

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2011 - The Glory Wind by Valerie Sherrard.

2010 - Vanishing Girl by Shane Peacock.

2009 - The Landing by John Ibbitson.

2008 - Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis.

2007 - Kanada by Eva Wiseman.

2006 - The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter.

2005 - Good for Nothing by Michel Noël.

2004 - Boy O’Boy by Brian Doyle.

2003 - The Word for Home by Joan Clark.

2002 - If I Just Had Two Wings by Virginia Frances Schwartz.

2000/2001 - Charlie Wilcox by Sharon McKay.

1999 - The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence.

1998 - Good-Bye Marianne by Irene N. Watts.

1997 - To Dance at the Palais Royale by Janet McNaughton.

1996 - Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada by Marianne Brandis.

1995 - The Dream Carvers by Joan Clark.

1994 - The Lights Go On Again by Kit Pearson.

1993 - Ticket to Curlew by Celia Barker Lottridge.

1992 - No award

1991 - The Sign of the Scales by Marianne Brandis.

1990 - The Sky Is Falling by Kit Pearson.

1989 - Rachel’s Revolution by Dorothy Perkyns.

1989 - Mystery in the Frozen Lands by Martyn Godfrey.

1988 - Lisa by Carol Matas.