Children's Book Awards - Shortlists and Winners

Bang Bang You're Dead
Narinder Dhami
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2009. It seems like just another day at school, then Mia's world turns upside down. School is being evacuated. Rumour has it there's a gunman in the building. And Mia has a horrible feeling she knows...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Barkbelly
Cat Weatherill
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2006. Brought up by loving human parents, Barkbelly is a little wooden boy who goes on the run after a tragic accident. The world he encounters is full of the unexpected including...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 06/04/2006
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Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon
Jonathan Stroud
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010. Magic and wit make perfect partners in this highly entertaining new story - a prequel to the author's Bartimaeus trilogy - about an unusually quick-witted djinni who has an uncanny...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 14/10/2010
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Beast
Ally Kennen
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007. What the judges’ said: Admired hugely its spare prose and confident storytelling’ Teenagers, particularly boys will empathise completely with the hero in Beast even though he may not be...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/06/2006
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Before I Die
Jenny Downham
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2008. This is a haunting yet truly amazing read but don't read it too young. Definitely not for someone less than 14 years old. If you knew you were going to die what would...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/04/2008
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Before I Die (Audio CD)
Jenny Downham
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2008. This is a haunting yet truly amazing title but don't read it too young. Definitely not for someone less than 14 years old. If you knew you were going to die what would you want to...
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Format: Cd-audio - Released: 03/09/2009
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Being Billy
Phil Earle
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2012. A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. "Faces flashed before my eyes. And for every face there was a time that they had let me down. Each punch that landed was revenge,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Between Two Seas
Marie-Louise Jensen
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Marianne promises her dying mother that she’ll seek a better life and especially that she’ll try to find her father. Leaving Grimsby, Marianne sets off on a long and dangerous voyage...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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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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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2009
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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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Billionaire Boy
David Walliams
Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011 Hugely entertaining, this captivating story is also thought provoking about the perils of having way too much money. Joe Spud is the richest twelve-year-old in the world; he has everything his heart...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Black Rabbit Summer
Kevin Brooks
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009. Pete and his childhood friends meet up one last time, for ‘old time’s sake’. But old times are full of secrets, tensions, bitterness and unhappiness. And everyone sees it a bit differently. And not...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2008
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Blood Red Road
Moira Young
Winner of the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. The story's searing pace, its spare style, the excitement of its fabulously damaged world, its unforgettably vivid characters, its violent action and glorious love story make this a truly sensatonal YA debut novel. Much...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2012
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Blood Red Snow White
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2007. The true story of master storyteller Arthur Ransome provides the background for this large scale and absorbing story. As a young man, Ransome was a journalist and, some thought, a spy, in...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/07/2007
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Blood Ties
Sophie Mckenzie
Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award 2009. Terrifically paced, this thriller links two teenagers who must work fast to unravel the past and discover the dangerous secret that unites them. Theo and Rachel have a lot at stake...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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Bloodline
Katy Moran
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Go back in time to Dark Age Britain for this powerful story about loyalty and survival in another time. Abandoned by his father, Essa makes a new life for himself among...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2008
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Bog Child
Siobhan Dowd
Winner of Carnegie Award 2009 and the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award 2009 and shortlisted for the . New and challenging book full of mystery and shadows from recently deceased author Siobhan Dowd. Both terrifying and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Box of Tricks
Katie Cleminson
Winner of Best Emerging Illustrator Award, Early Year Awards 2009   A truly magical debut from author/illustrator Katie Cleminson.  When Eva is given a box of tricks for her birthday she becomes a master magician. Conjuring up the best animal musicians, party...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2009
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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: Hardback - Released: 28/10/2010
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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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Bridge To The Stars
Henning Mankell
Known better for his crime writing for adults, this is an incredibly moving story about the life of a teenager in Sweden.  Beautifully written with some stunning characters brought vividly to light and some...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2005
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Broken Soup
Jenny Valentine
Shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award.  Rowan is sure that she didn’t drop the negative that a boy presses into her hands but when her friend Bee offers to print it, Rowan’s curiosity causes her to accept. Who was...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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Catcall
Linda Newbery
Winner of the 9-11 Nestle Silver Award 2007. This is a gripping and beautifully told atmospheric novel full of psychological tension and fast-paced action. It’s Linda Newbery, who is also the winner of the Costa Book Award with Set...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Cats Ahoy!
Peter Bently
Winner of the 6 and under category, Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011. A swashbuckling tale of pirate plunder, derring do and a huge haul of haddock! "These two books are master classes in how to write and how to draw funny," said...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2011
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Century
Sarah Singleton
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2006. Century is a haunting story with a wonderfully gothic feel. Mercy and her sister Charity live in huge house full of dusty corners. Outside it is always winter and the two...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2005
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Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson
Shortlisted for the CLIP Carnegie Medal 2010. With a rare and compelling voice, this haunting novel tells not only the story of a remarkable girl and her incredible strength, but also of a time and place in which slavery was the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Charlie Cook's Favourite Book
Julia Donaldson
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Prize 2007 'Most Fun Story with Pictures.' Another gem from the prize-winning creators of The Gruffalo. There are lots of reading jokes in this book within a book, within a book: pirates and robbers settle...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2005
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Chick
Ed Vere
Winner of the Baby Book Award, Early Year Awards 2009   A stylishly simple pop-up takes a tiny chick from the moment it pecks its way out of its shell to its first night sleeping safely under Mum’s wing. Little fingers will...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Clackety-Clacks: Bee
Luana Rinaldo
A noisy book for busy babies!  This is a lovely little book in a fun format.  The story and bold illustrations will keep very young children captivated as they follow Bee on his travels meeting lots of other animals.
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Format: Board Book - Released: 17/02/2006
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2009
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