Children's Book Awards - Shortlists and Winners

A Bit Lost
Chris Haughton
A Lovereading4kids 'Great read you may have missed 2011' selection. A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. Winner of the top children's book award in Ireland in 2011 - the Bisto Award. Babies and Toddlers +. When Little Owl falls out of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2011
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Boys Don't Cry
Malorie Blackman
Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011 Best-selling author Malorie Blackman has an exceptional ability to see the world from a teenager’s angle. With his stellar A-level results in his hand, Dante has a great future mapped out for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2011
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Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex (Book 7)
Eoin Colfer
Winner of the 2011 Independent Booksellers’ Award Bestselling master criminal Artemis Fowl is back for another thrilling adventure. But, is he the same? Now fifteen, Artemis seems older and wiser and he is determined to save the world from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Dark Parallel (The Joshua Files book 4)
M. G. Harris
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers Book Award 2011 A headlong new title in this best-selling series, Joshua narrates a new adventure with his trademark sharpness and familiar cool.  Joshua is in danger as soon as he begins the quest to find...
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Format: Other book format - Released: 07/04/2011
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The Dead (The Enemy Series 2)
Charlie Higson
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers Book Award 2011 Charlie Higson packs a punch with the second in his gripping adventure series set in a dystopian future in which adults have ceased to be protectors. England has been struck by a deadly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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White Crow
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 Packed full of suspense, this is a tingling and chilling Gothic thriller in which nothing can quite be taken for granted. Rebecca is forced to abandon her bustling life in London for the unfamiliar...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Moon Pie
Simon Mason
One of the 4 titles longlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. How love is tested, challenged and threatened, but can ultimately hold families together is at the heart of Moon Pie. Martha is used to managing her father's sometimes...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/04/2011
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The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
Liz Pichon
Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award 2012 (Younger Readers Category). Winner of 7 - 14 category of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011. A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. "These two books are master classes in how...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2011
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Prisoner of the Inquisition
Theresa Breslin
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 Zarita, only daughter of the town magistrate, lives a life of wealth and privilege. Indulged by her parents, she is free to spend her days as she pleases, enjoying herself in the company of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2011
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Dead Man's Cove: A Laura Marlin Mystery
Lauren St.John
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011. Overall winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2011 and winner of the Favourite Story Category. From the author of the much-loved...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/03/2011
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Audio CD read by David Tennant
Annabel Pitcher
Audio CD read by David Tennant. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year Award 2011 You'll be utterly mesmerised by the voice of a 10 year old boy whose family have quite frankly gone AWOL since one of his twin...
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Format: Audiobook On Cd - Released: 10/03/2011
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Twilight Robbery
Frances Hardinge
One of the 4 titles shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Award winning Frances Hardinge’s first novel Fly By Night starred Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent. Now they are back for a thrilling new adventure in the city of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2011
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Everybody Jam
Ali Lewis
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.  Shortlisted for the North East Teenage Book Award and for the Coventry Inspiration Awards in the Simply The Book (age 14+) category. Longlisted for the Southern Schools Book Award. The Carnegie judges said: A hugely engaging and enjoyable...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Raven Mysteries 3: Lunatics and Luck
Marcus Sedgwick
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Most Fun Story with Pictures*. As told by a raven, this Gothic horror richly laced in humour is a delicious read – especially when the moon is full! Castle Otherhand is beset by...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Me and You
Anthony Browne
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2011 Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne gives a thought provoking new take on the traditional story of Goldilocks. Here, Goldilocks, who lives on a dark and dreary estate portrayed all in greys in Browne’s urban...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Flip
Martyn Bedford
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. Waking up as someone he’s never even met is the strangest experience of Flip’s life. Suddenly he’s Philip – or Flip – and nothing and no-one is familiar any more; the house, his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher
One of the 8 titles longlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Heartbreaking and funny in equal measure, 10-year-old Jamie's direct and wide-eyed account of the emotional chaos he and his family live through following the death of his sister...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2011
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Magicalamity
Kate Saunders
Tom is in shock. He's just discovered that his dad is an escaped fairy on the run. He never knew he was a demisprite - the chill of a fairy and a human. Now he must trust his life to his three...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2011
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The Ogre of Oglefort
Eva Ibbotson
Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010. A Richard and Judy Children's Book Club selection 2011 - Fluent Readers Irresistibly ridiculous, this is a wonderful and enchanting romp from a master...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2011
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The Thirteen Secrets
Michelle Harrison
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. This is the brilliant concluding part of Harrison's '13' trilogy, it's a brilliantly crafted dark faerie story that appeals across a wide audience of children aged about 9+.  She has cleverly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Return to Ribblestrop
Andrew Mulligan
Winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. The judging panel was chaired by Lovereading4kids Editor in Chief Julia Eccleshare who is also the Guardian Children's Books editor. She said of the winner: “The judges considered energetically and argued...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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The Doomsday Code (Time Riders Book 3)
Alex Scarrow
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers Book Award 2011 This spectacular time travel series from the pen of Alex Scarrow just gets better and better.  The first two were brilliant; this is the third and it's even better.  All-action adventure time travel...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Withering Tights
Louise Rennison
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection.  Laugh out loud at this launch title of a brilliant new series by Queen of Teen author Louise Rennison. Tallulah Casey, cousin of the irrepressible Georgia Nicholson, signs up for an...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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School According to Humphrey
Betty G. Birney
Dear Friends, After a fur-raising holiday at Camp Happy Hollow, I looked forward to returning to Room 26 to see all my old friends. Mrs. Brisbane was still there, but I was shocked to find the classroom full of strangers,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 20/01/2011
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Artichoke Hearts
Sita Brahmachari
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2011 A welter of emotions engulf Mira in this touching pre-teen story about secrets and how to keep them and share them. Strongly set in a busy family, Mira’s life is full of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2011
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When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2011, this is a brilliantly fresh and original story with a puzzle at its heart. When Miranda’s best...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Tall Story
Candy Gourlay
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2011. Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Favourite Story. This is a debut novel packed with warmth, humour and quirkiness that will have you in fits of laughter one minute and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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The Pain Merchants (The Healing Wars)
Janice Hardy
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2011 Part one of a powerful historical fantasy full of politics, magic and enchantment. The Healing Wars tells of the unusual powers of fifteen year old orphan, Naya. In a world where many have...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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The Memory Cage
Ruth Eastham
Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2011 A touching family story about dealing with a relative with Alzheimer’s disease, set in the wider context of everyone’s memories and the good and bad effects of retrieving them. Alex is frightened that...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2011
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Big Bear, Little Brother
Carl Norac
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2011 A useful book about the Environment.   Carl Norac's delicately woven tale of the touching friendship between a young boy and a solitary polar bear is accompanied by beautiful, evocative illustrations by Kristin Oftedal.  Kristin...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2010
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