Geoffrey Bilson Award
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The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year. The award is named after Geoffrey Bilson, a writer of historical fiction for youth and a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan who died suddenly in 1987. Each year's winner receives $1000.
Winners
- 1988 - Carol Matas, Lisa
- 1989 - Martyn Godfrey, Mystery in the Frozen Lands and Dorothy Perkyns, Rachel’s Revolution
- 1990 - Kit Pearson, The Sky is Falling
- 1991 - Marianne Brandis, The Sign of the Scales
- 1992 - No award
- 1993 - Celia Barker Lottridge, Ticket to Curlew
- 1994 - Kit Pearson, The Lights Go On Again
- 1995 - Joan Clark, The Dream Carvers
- 1996 - Marianne Brandis, Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada
- 1997 - Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale
- 1998 - Irene N. Watts, Good-Bye Marianne
- 1999 - Iain Lawrence, The Wreckers
- 2000 - deferred to next year
- 2001 - Sharon McKay, Charlie Wilcox
- 2002 - Virginia Frances Schwartz, If I Just Had Two Wings
- 2003 - Joan Clark, The Word for Home