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Don Aker Biography

Don Aker Profile from CM Magazine

Awards

The First Stone

Winner of Atlantic Canada's 2004 Ann Connor Brimer Award

Winner of the Ontario Library Association's 2004 White Pine Award

Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice 2004 starred selection

Stranger at Bay

Shortlisted for the 1999 CNIB Torgi Award

Shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association's 1998 Red Maple Award

Shortlisted for the 1998 Ann Connor Brimer Award

Shortlisted for the 1998 Blue Heron Award

Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice 1998/99 selection

Recommended by the Nova Scotia Department of Education for classroom study in the province-wide 2003 Active Readers Program

Of Things Not Seen

Winner of the 1996 Ann Connor Brimer Award

Winner of the 1996 Canadian Authors Association Lilla Stirling Award

Shortlisted for the 1998 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award

Recommended by the Nova Scotia Department of Education for classroom study in the province-wide 2003 Active Readers Program