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Old 09-07-2010, 04:45 PM   #1
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Booktrust Teenage Fiction Prize 2010 Shortlist Announced
The Book Trust has just announced the shortlist for its 2010 Teenage Prize - the winner (who'll take home £2,500) to be announced on November 1st.

The shortlisted authors are:

- THE ENEMY by Charlie Higson

- HALO by Zizou Corder

- NOBODY'S GIRL by Sarra Manning

- OUT OF SHADOWS by Jason Wallace

- REVOLVER by Marcus Sedgewick

- UNHOOKING THE MOON by Gregory Hughes.

In addition to the shortlist, the judges also mentioned the following books as deserving to be highly commended for their quality:

Daughter of Fire and Ice by Marie-Louise Jensen
Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper
Two Good Thieves by Daniel Finn
My So-called Afterlife by Tamsyn Murray
WE by John Dickinson
When I was Joe by Keren David

I'm a bit surprised that WHEN I WAS JOE didn't make the shortlist actually as it got really good reviews and is something I'd heard good things about.

Of the shortlisted books, I've read and enjoyed THE ENEMY and REVOLVER, but given that Sedgewick won the award back in 2007, I'd be surprised if he won it again.

My money is on HALO or OUT OF THE SHADOWS to win.

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Looking over that list, I can't help but notice that nothing on it generated a colossal amount of buzz on any of the YA writing blogs I frequent. I hadn't heard of most of any of them except Revolver (which I've read) until now.

That's...kind of depressing.
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Charlie Higson's THE ENEMY was one of the big YA books at the London Book Fair back in 2009 because he did a book video for other publishers that slowly shows him turning into a zombie. Sarwat Chadda blogged about how intimidating it was to have to go straight after him. I thought that THE ENEMY was a lot of fun - dark and quite scary - but I'd be surprised if it won because it's about zombies and that might not be high brow enough.

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hmm. Intresting list.
I have Halo, but havent read it yet. Still trying to get through Clockwork Angel.
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Charlie Higson's THE ENEMY was one of the big YA books at the London Book Fair back in 2009 because he did a book video for other publishers that slowly shows him turning into a zombie. Sarwat Chadda blogged about how intimidating it was to have to go straight after him. I thought that THE ENEMY was a lot of fun - dark and quite scary - but I'd be surprised if it won because it's about zombies and that might not be high brow enough.

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Oh, now I remember seeing the author talking about in on the BBC Breakfast Show thing a while ago. It sounded interesting, but not really my kind of thing. (And you're right, not particularly 'high brow' compared to the others on that list.)
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I've seen Halo recommended off some Amazon page, and I've heard of My So-Called Afterlife and Revolver, but the rest are unknown to me too.
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I really enjoyed The Enemy, but I'll be highly surprised if it wins.
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It does say something about the strength of YA publishing that there's so little overlap between the shortlists of the Booktrust Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Carnegie Medal, to name just three UK-based awards.

The only one of those I've read is Revolver, which is excellent.
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