Blue Spruce Award - a provincial primary reading program which brings recently published Canadian children's picture books to Ontario children ages 4 to 7 in kindergarten through to grade two
Red Maple Award - for the enjoyment of students in Grades 7 and 8. Students are encouraged to view the information about authors and the books on a special Web site created for registrants. The site includes e-mail access to most of the authors and a bulletin board through which students may share their thoughts on the books. Voting for most registrants is also electronic
Silver Birch Award - covering Grade 3 to Grade 6. In order to appeal to all of the readers from Grade 3 to 6, a third list has been created, the Silver Birch Express. This list is a combination of fiction and non-fiction, aimed at the Grade 3 - 4 reading level. The idea is to offer this option to all Silver Birch readers, allowing the ESL student, reluctant reader, special need student and the younger students in the group a list that will encourage reading both fiction and non-fiction. All of the books on this list are accessible and will allow all readers to be successful participants/voters. As in all of the independent reading programs, a reader only needs to read 5 books out of a list of 10 to qualify to vote
White Pine Award - offers high school-aged teens at all grade levels the opportunity to read the best of Canada's recent young adult fiction titles. All of these 10 books for Young Adults on this list are accessible and will allow all readers to be successful participants/voters