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The Book Awards category on Lovereading4kids will help you and your child discover authors currently in contention for and/or winners of the most prestigious awards. By their very presence on this page, you can be sure that each of the books featured here is the 'crème-de-la-crème' of today's children's literature. 

For each award, Lovereading4kids will feature the shortlist of books and authors before the individual winner is announced. As with all our Featured Books, you and your child will be able to download and print off free Opening Extracts of each book. In this way, you can choose your own winner and see if the judges agree with you!

And remember, even if the judges don't pick your favourite, all our Children's Book Award books are available to order online at 25% off the RRP. 

As Lovereading4kids grows we'll be featuring as many awards as we can manage, including:

Kate Greenaway Medal

Carnegie Medal

Costa Children's Award

Branford Boase Award

Marsh Award in Translation

Blue Peter Book Award

The Guardian Children's Fiction Award

Early Years Book Award

The Red House Children's Book Award 

The Booktrust Teenage Prize




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Troubadour
Troubadour
Mary Hoffman
Shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 There’s romance, intrigue, religion and bloodshed all tightly interwoven in this historical thriller. Rather than marrying the old nobleman her father has chosen for her, Elinor determines to run away with Bertran...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
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The 10pm Question
The 10pm Question
Kate De Goldi
This is a warm, surprising, quirky, yet real and intelligent novel you will fall in love with. It’s a coming of age tale of Frankie Parsons, a twelve year old boy (who thinks and acts much older) who worries incessantly...
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Molly and the Night Monster
Molly and the Night Monster
Christopher Wormell
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. Night fears are calmed in this beautiful picture book capturing moments familiar to many parents and children. In the middle of the night, Molly hears something on the stairs. She imagines all the...
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Stolen
Stolen
Lucy Christopher
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2010 Julia Eccleshare, our editorial expert and chairman of the Branford Boase Award judges says: ‘Stolen is a wonderfully accomplished first novel. Sure-footed and without a word wasted Lucy has created a fantastic sense of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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Harry and Hopper
Harry and Hopper
Margaret Wild
Winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. Harry and his dog Hopper...
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Dogs
Dogs
Emily Gravett
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. Prize-winning illustrator Emily Gravett delights with another wonderful new book. Apparently a celebration of dogs of all kind, this is also a book with a witty twist at the end. Gorgeous pictures of...
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Her Mother's Face
Her Mother's Face
Roddy Doyle
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. The first picture book...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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Eating Things on Sticks
Eating Things on Sticks
Anne Fine
Shortlisted for Roald Dahl's Funny Prize 2009. . Prize-winning Children’s Laureate Anne Fine is more entertaining than anyone else about families. Creating circumstances in which everything possible can go wrong, she delights her readers with bizarre situations that are hugely entertaining....
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Dog Loves Books
Dog Loves Books
Louise Yates
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. The magic of books and reading is perfectly illustrated in this joyful picture book. Dog loves books and reading so he decides to open a bookshop. Everything about it is perfect – except...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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What's for Dinner Mr Gum?
What's for Dinner Mr Gum?
Andy Stanton
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. Best-selling Mr Gum is back for a sixth hilarious adventure. Mr Gum’s tastes have always been revolting but this time he surpasses himself with a passionate indulgence of rancid kebabs dripping with dirty grey...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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Running Wild
Running Wild
Michael Morpurgo
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Prize 2010. Prize-winning author Michael Morpurgo’s new novel is a towering adventure and emotional roller coaster set at the time of a great tsunami. Trying to get over his father’s death, Will and his mother travel...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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The Unfinished Angel
The Unfinished Angel
Sharon Creech
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. Prize-winning author Sharon Creech tells a magical story that's truly original, touching and funny of an unusual friendship between an unusual angel and Zola who find themselves sharing a tower high in the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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The Silver Blade
The Silver Blade
Sally Gardner
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 and for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. The dramatic, horrific and sometimes romantic events of the French Revolution, which Sally Gardner so brilliantly portrayed in The Red Necklace are moved...
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The Last Leopard
The Last Leopard
Lauren St John
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. Saving the world’s rarest leopard is the mission for Martine and Ben in this latest African adventure about a young girl and the animals she loves and protects. Instead of spending the holiday riding...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/05/2009
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Cosmic
Cosmic
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2008, the Carnegie Medal and for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. Comic and cosmic, this is a roller coaster adventure that takes Liam Digby...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2009
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Auslander
Auslander
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking...
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Henderson's Boys: The Escape
Henderson's Boys: The Escape
Robert Muchamore
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. Best-selling author of the Cherub series, Robert Muchamore launches a powerful and pacy new series about children working undercover. The year is 1940, the place is Paris. Hitler’s army is sweeping towards the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Ostrich Boys
Ostrich Boys
Keith Gray
Shortlisted for the Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009, the Young Minds Book Prize 2009, the Carnegie Award 2009, for the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award and the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. A novel that so cleverly, almost miraculously...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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Revolver
Revolver
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010, the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010 and for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009. A tense, psychological drama set in the snowy wilderness of the Arctic Circle, where a boy confronts a stranger who has...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/04/2010
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WOW Said the Owl
WOW Said the Owl
Tim Hopgood
Shortlisted for the Best Pre-School Award, Early Year Awards 2009 Owl decides to wake up during the day and sleep at night.  A very odd thing for an owl to do.  But he discovers the world of colour and he’s in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Takeshita Demons
Takeshita Demons
Cristy Burne
Winner of the inaugural Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Award 2009 A thrilling contemporary adventure wittily shot through with the powerful fantasy stories of the old demons from the Japanese past. Miku knows about the demons from growing up in Japan...
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Fugitive Pieces
Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels
Winner of the Best of the Orange Best 2010, selected by the Orange Prize Youth Panel. A powerful story of suffering and the power of love. When a young holocaust survivor is found in the woods by a Greek archaeologist his life is...
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Genesis
Genesis
Bernard Beckett
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 This will intrigue and fascinate you from the start. Set in a futuristic utopian society Anax is taking an exam which will decide if she can enter the elite ‘Academy’ and her subject is Adam...
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The Dunderheads
The Dunderheads
Paul Fleischman
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. Miss Breakbone is a fearsome teacher: she shouts, she confiscates, she makes kids cry. Until the Dunderheads – an unlikely band of kids, with extraordinary hidden talents, decide to teach Miss Breakbone a...
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Leviathan
Leviathan
Scott Westerfeld
Nominated for a prestigious Nebula Award - the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy - winner to be announced mid May 2010. This is an incredibly original and thought provoking novel. Think Europe 1914 - the war...
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Paradise Barn
Paradise Barn
Victor Watson
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 With bombers flying overhead, an evacuee arriving to live among them and several mysterious adult visitors, too, life for Molly and Abigail is transformed during the Second World War. The two girls, helped by...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/08/2009
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Life, Interrupted
Life, Interrupted
Damian Kelleher
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 Sorrow and happiness course through this book of huge emotions, which gives lots of room for optimism despite dealing with tragedy. Fourteen-year-old Luke is used to coping with things, especially his accident-prone younger brother...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2009
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The Graveyard Book (illustrated by Dave McKean)
The Graveyard Book (illustrated by Dave McKean)
Neil Gaiman
Winner of the CLIP Carnegie Medal 2010. Spooks galore in this brilliant and fantastic story of life in the graveyard. When Baby Bod escapes a murderer intent on killing his whole family, he is taken in by the graveyard ghosts....
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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Big and Clever
Big and Clever
Dan Tunstall
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 This is a modern, gritty and thrilling morality tale about belonging and about loyalty.  It brilliant captures teen life as it really exists in so many places up and down the country. With a...
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Devil's Kiss
Devil's Kiss
Sarwat Chadda
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 A fresh voice, Sawat Chadda has written a tough street story capturing the violence that is out there in most cities. Fifteen year old Billi is facing the last test before she follows her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Guantanamo Boy
Guantanamo Boy
Anna Perera
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2009. Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "An important and moving story of an ordinary teenage boy innocently caught up in a modern-day nightmare which exposes the shortcomings...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Numbers
Numbers
Rachel Ward
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 A tough, teenage novel about being different. Jem’s life has been hard from the beginning and it is not made any easier by her dangerous secret; every time she looks into a person’s eyes,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2009
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