Children's Book Awards - Shortlists and Winners
This Month's Featured Books
Kick
Mitch Johnson
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2018 | October 2017
Debut of the Month | In a nutshell: serious issues in a
fast-moving, vividly told football story Like lots of kids
in this country, Budi lives for football, training with...
Featured in: 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/09/2017
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Welcome to Nowhere
Elizabeth Laird
Winner of the UKLA 2018 Book Award 7-11 | In a nutshell:
the lives of a Syrian family brought vividly and sympathetically to
life for young readers | This is an excellent book for
young people who want to know...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 13/07/2017
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Lesser Spotted Animals
Martin Brown
Winner of the UKLA 2018 Book Award 7-11 | In a nutshell:
not your average animal book | This is no ordinary animal
book, you won't find the usual suspects in its page, no tigers,
pandas, bears here. Instead be...
Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/04/2017
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We Come Apart
Sarah Crossan, Brian Conaghan
Winner of the UKLA 2018 Book Award | 12-16 January 2018
Book of the Month | In a nutshell: unputdownable
story, beautifully told | Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan
are two of our most garlanded YA authors: she won...
Featured in: YA readers
Format: Paperback | Released 11/01/2018
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Last Month's Featured Books
After the Fire
Will Hill
Winner of the YA Book Prize 2018 | Shortlisted for the
CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018 | In a nutshell: tense, super-suspenseful
novel based on harrowing real life events After the...
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Where the World Ends
Geraldine McCaughrean
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018 | Shortlisted for
the UKLA 2018 Book Award | In a nutshell: beautifully written,
totally original, mesmerising storytelling In the summer
of 1727...
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Town Is by the Sea
Joanne Schwartz
Winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2018 |
This haunting book, beautifully illustrated in ink and watercolour,
bears record to a long-gone way of life. A young boy describes...
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Rhythm and Poetry
Karl Nova
Winner of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award
2018 The first published collection from Hip Hop poet Karl
Nova has a refreshing directness, honesty and authenticity. Many of
the...
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Rising Stars
Ruth Awolola, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Abigail Cook, Jay Hulme, Amina Jama
Highly Commended in the Centre for Literacy in Primary
Poetry Award 2018 Five emerging writer-performers are
showcased in a book which is a blend of anthology & individual
collections. Ruth Awolola...
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Goodnight Everyone
Chris Haughton
Longlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award Perfect
for the end of every day, award-winning Chris Haughton captures the
soothing time as the sun goes down and all the animals...
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More Featured Books
The One Memory of Flora Banks
Emily Barr
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 | Longlisted for the
Branford Boase Award 2018 | One...
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Where Zebras Go Poems
Sue Hardy-Dawson
Shortlisted for the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry
Award 2018 Get ready to join in the Poetry Olympics,
question a snake, talk to a toad and learn 20 ways to...
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Straight Outta Crongton
Alex Wheatle
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 | From the
acclaimed author of Liccle Bit and Crongton Knights, comes another
story from the South Crong council estate.
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Knighthood for Beginners
Elys Dolan
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2018 | In a
nutshell: hilarious courtly adventure from one of our funniest,
most inventive writer-illustrators Elys Dolan fills her
first adventure story for...
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La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
Philip Pullman
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 | One of Our
Books of the Year 2017 | November
2017...
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Indigo Donut
Patrice Lawrence
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 | One of Our Books
of the Year 2017 | In a Nutshell: Soaring soundtrack to resilience
and love Real-life grit, gripping mystery,...
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STAGS
M. A. Bennett
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 | August 2017 Debut
of the Month It is the autumn term and Greer MacDonald is
struggling to settle into the sixth form at...
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It Only Happens in the Movies
Holly Bourne
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 | October 2017 Book
of the Month A feast of feel-good funniness and feminism
that cleverly contrasts the impossible magic of movie romance...
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Yours Sincerely, Giraffe
Megumi Iwasa
Shortlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award Giraffe
is bored, as usual. He'd love a friend to share things with. So he
writes a letter and sends it as far...
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Potter's Boy
Tony Mitton
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2018 |
The first novel by acclaimed poet Tony Mitton (winner of the CLPE
Poetry Award - the only award for published poetry for...
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Fly By Night
Frances Hardinge
Winner of the Branford Boase Prize 2006 Fly By
Night is a wholly original fantasy peopled with a cast of unusual
characters whose adventures unravel at a breathtaking pace.
Mosca...
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Gullstruck Island
Frances Hardinge
A hugely imaginative and inventive fantasy, Gullstruck Island is
the wonderful creation of a whole new world in which some of the
strangest things happen. Arilou is a Lost, a...
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Things a Bright Girl Can Do
Sally Nicholls
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 | February
2018 Book of the Month This inspirational
novel about three young Suffragettes from very different
backgrounds is at once a riveting...
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A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
Yaba Badoe
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2018 | In a
Nutshell: Circus girl searches for roots amidst real-world
cruelties A dazzlingly powerful kaleidoscope of magic
realism, folklore and the...
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Cuckoo Song
Frances Hardinge
Frances Hardinge creates a brilliant sense of menace in this
chillingly dark fairy story . Something sinister, beyond just
getting wet, happens to Triss when she falls into the Grimmer....
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The Lie Tree
Frances Hardinge
Award-winning Frances Hardinge is spellbinding is this hugely
entertaining and dramatic Victorian thriller. When Faith's father
dies suddenly she knows she must try to find out exactly what he
was...
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The Wizards of Once
Cressida Cowell
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month May 2018 | Winner of
the 2018 Blue Peter Awards - Best Story Best-selling
Cressida Cowell launches her new series with a title that...
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Overheard in a Tower Block
Joseph Coelho
Shortlisted for the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry
Award 2018 This second solo collection from Joseph Coelho,
Overheard in a Tower Block, explores further some of the themes
from Werewolf...
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The Starman and Me
Sharon Cohen
Highly Commended for the Branford Boase Award 2018
| Twelve-year old Kofi thinks he's seeing things when he
spots a tiny human being on a roundabout near his home. But...
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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.
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For each of the awards included in this Book Award category, 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!
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