Book of the Year

Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock (Longacre Press, 1997)

Children’s Choice

Alphabet Apartments by Lesley Moyes (Mallinson Rendel, 1997)

Best First Book

Trapped by Judy Knox (Scholastic, 1997)

Senior Fiction

Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock (Longacre Press, 1997)

Junior Fiction

Ticket to the Sky Dance by Joy Cowley (Viking, 1997)

Picture Book

Alphabet Apartments by Lesley Moyes (Mallinson Rendel, 1997)

Non-Fiction

The Know, Sow & Grow Kids’ Book of Plants by Diana Noonan and Keith Olsen (Bridge Hill Publishing, 1997)