Children's Book Awards - Shortlists and Winners

The Ask and the Answer: Book 2 in the Chaos Walking Trilogy
Patrick Ness
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010.  Prize-winning author Patrick Ness follows up The Knife of Never Letting Go with equally hard hitting The Ask and the Answer. Trying to escape, Todd and Viola fall into the hands of Mayor...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke
Sian Pattenden
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007. What the judges’ said: Full of dark humour, eccentric metaphors and satirical touches. A marvel’ This is a hair-raising story of the truly terrible Agatha Bilke, a girl who...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 13/04/2006
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The Bad Spy's Guide
Pete Johnson
This book definitely gets into the category of 'books you can't put down' and has therefore rightly been chosen as one of the Blue Peter Book Award 'Books I couldn't put down' 2007.  It's a thriller but it's also full...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2007
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The Bog Baby
Jeanne Willis
A tender story with a big message. Two sisters playing by the pond find a magical tiny being complete with wings. It’s a bog baby and the two girls decide to take the best care of it that they can....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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The Book of Everything
Guus Kuijer
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award 2006. A magical story about the power of a child’s imagination to free him from the tyranny of a brutalizing father. Thomas’s father imposes a reign...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/03/2006
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The Bower Bird
Ann Kelley
Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2007. What the Judges said - "The world of life and death, beauty and truth seen through the eyes of a 12 year old girl. A rare and beautiful book of lasting quality...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/12/2007
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The Boy in the Dress
David Walliams
Shortlisted for Roald Dahl's Funny Prize 2009. Touching, funny and full of insight, this tender story tells how Dennis decides that everyone does not have to be the same. Bravely, he decides to do something completely different. Taking a risk...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2009
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The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43
Harriet Goodwin
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award. Adventurous, charming and poignant by turns, The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 is a quirky debut novel laced with humour and a dollop of magic.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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The Bride's Farewell
Meg Rosoff
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 Meg Rosoff has written another superb book for young adults, although this will be equally enjoyed by the more mature adults out there too! Pell leaves home determined not to get caught in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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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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The Burying Beetle
Ann Kelley
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2006. Twelve year old Gussie tells the story of her life with an engaging freshness and enthusiasm. Recently moved from London to Cornwall, Gussie captures the details of her new life – the ramshackle...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/05/2006
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The Carbon Diaries 2015
Saci Lloyd
Shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award. This is a novel written in diary form as Laura, a teenager chronicles her life and that of her family as it is in 2015.  It’s edgy, it’s appealing and it’s contemporary and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2008
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The Crowfield Curse
Pat Walsh
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2011. Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 An exciting adventure with some excellent magical powers at its heart. Life is hard for Will growing up in the chilly atmosphere of Crowfield Abbey. He’s hungry...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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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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The Death-defying Pepper Roux
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011 Prize-winning Geraldine McCaughrean has turned her deft hand to a brilliantly witty and fast moving story about a boy who wants to defy his destiny. Pepper is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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The Diamond of Drury Lane (A Cat Royal Novel)
Julia Golding
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award. Winner of Nestle Children's Award 2006.   Cat Royal, the feisty little orphan-girl brought up in a theatre, is a brilliant narrator of this terrific action-packed adventure. There’s intrigue, politics,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2008
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The Ding Dong Bag
Jess Stockham
Shortlisted for the Nasen and TES Children's Book Award 2007. Have you ever wanted to collect sounds? Well two boys set about doing exactly that in this hilarious, silly and often noisy book. Impressively illustrated and ideal for reading aloud!
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2006
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The Django
Levi Pinfold
Winner of the Booktrust Best Emerging Illustrator Award. There’s magic and music at the heart of this original and touching story. When Little Jean first comes across the Django he just sees a tricksy creature capable of causing absolute chaos....
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2010
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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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The Door Of No Return
Sarah Mussi
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2008. This is one of the most through-provoking and complete debut novels published recently and fully deserves to be on the shortlist of the Branford Boase award for debut novels. It’s got just about...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/04/2007
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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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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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The Enemy (The Enemy series 1)
Charlie Higson
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book Prize 2010.  A thrilling story of survival against the odds in a world in which adults have been killed or brain-crazed leaving only children under fourteen and with no one to look after them.  How...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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The Fearsome Beastie
Giles Paley-Phillips
April 2012 Book of the Month.  Shortlisted for The People's Book Prize 2012. This is a terrific little picture book that parents are likely to be more worried about for the fear factor than any toddler.  There's a great storyline written...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2011
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The Flowing Queen
Kai Meyer
Winner of Marsh Award 2006. This is a wondrous and magical novel, the first in a trilogy, set in Venice but amongst mermaids in the canals, stone lions, phantoms in the sky and Egyptian mummies led...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2006
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The Galloping Ghost
Hilda Offen
Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Book Prize 2009 Another brilliantly funny story from an incredibly funny author. Josh is not impressed when he has to write a poem for homework so he decides to ‘borrow’ one from a book. His...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/08/2008
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The Girl Who Could Fly
Victoria Forester
Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 By turns exhilarating and terrifying this is an unforgettable story of defiance and courage starring an irrepressible heroine who can fly. Piper McCloud can fly but that makes friends and family afraid of her. She...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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The Graveyard Book (illustrated by Chris Riddell)
Neil Gaiman
11+. Winner of the Carnegie Medal in 2010, shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2010, winner of Best Novel at the Hugo Awards 2009 and of the prestigious Newbery Medal. Spooks galore in this brilliant and fantastic story of life...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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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....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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The Great Dog Bottom Swap
Peter Bently & Mei Matsuoka
Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Book Prize 2009   A rollicking canine caper, that’s quite frankly barking mad but is sure to appeal to the quirkier side of human nature. Little kids will find it hysterical whilst some parents will try...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2009
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The Great Hamster Massacre
Katie Davies
Winner of the Waterstone's Book Award 2010. Galaxy Children's Book Award shortlist 2010. Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011. An entertaining behind-the-scenes look at family life in all its intricacies as it revolves around pet ownership and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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