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And here's the longlist for the 2014 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, in alphabetical order by author, with again the age recommendations those of the judges:

Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by K.G. Campbell (9+)
The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby: Flora in Love by Natasha Durrant (12+)
Shine by Candy Gourlay (12+)
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (12+)
Phoenix by S.F. Said, illustrated by Dave McKean (10+)
She is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick (12+)
The Lost Gods by Francesca Simon (9+)
The Dark Wild by Piers Torday (11+)

And again I missed a shortlist announcement, but it was:

Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by K.G. Campbell (9+)
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (12+)
Phoenix by S.F. Said, illustrated by Dave McKean (10+)
The Dark Wild by Piers Torday (11+)

The winner, announced on Thursday, was Piers Torday.
 

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Costa Book Awards, shortlist for the Children's Book category. The category winners (Novel, First Novel, Children's Book, Poetry, Biography) will be announced on 5 January, and one of those will be announced as the Costa Book of the Year on 27 January.

Simon Mason, Running Girl
Michael Morpurgo, Listen to the Moon
Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front
Marcus Sedgwick, The Ghosts of Heaven
 

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Costa Book Awards, shortlist for the Children's Book category. The category winners (Novel, First Novel, Children's Book, Poetry, Biography) will be announced on 5 January, and one of those will be announced as the Costa Book of the Year on 27 January.

Simon Mason, Running Girl
Michael Morpurgo, Listen to the Moon
Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front
Marcus Sedgwick, The Ghosts of Heaven

And the category winner is Kate Saunders with Five Children on the Western Front.
 

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Longlist for the Carnegie Medal. The shortlist (usually of eight) will be announced on 17 March and the winner on 22 June.

My Brother's Shadow by Tom Avery (Andersen Press)
Us Minus Mum by Heather Butler (Little Brown, Young Readers)
When Mr. Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan (Bloomsbury)
Apple and Rain by Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury)
The Company of Ghosts by Berlie Doherty (Andersen Press)
The Year of the Rat by Clare Furniss (Simon & Schuster Children's Books)
Tinder by Sally Gardner (author) and David Roberts (illustrator) (Orion Children's Books)
Monkey and Me by David Gilman (Templar)
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children's Books)
The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan Children's Books)
Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman (Walker Books)
Scarlet Ibis by Gill Lewis (Oxford University Press)
The Middle of Nowhere by Geraldine McCaughrean (Usborne Books)
Hello Darkness by Anthony McGowan (Walker Books)
More Than This by Patrick Ness (Walker Books)
Close Your Pretty Eyes by Sally Nicholls (Marion Lloyd Books)
Trouble by Non Pratt (Walker Books)
Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff (Penguin Books)
Smart: a Mysterious Crime, a Different Detective by Kim Slater (Macmillan Children's Books)
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith (Electric Monkey)

I am intending to read the shortlist again. From the above, the only one I've read so far is Picture Me Gone. I have More Than This in the TBR pile and Cuckoo Song is on the BSFA Award shortlist, which I'm intending to read through.
 
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Carnegie Medal shortlist, in alphabetical order by author. Age recommendations are those of the judges.

Brian Conaghan, When Mr Dog Bites (14+)
Sarah Crossan, Apple and Rain (11+)
Sally Gardner, Tinder (11+)
Frances Hardinge, Cuckoo Song (11+)
Elizabeth Laird, The Fastest Boy in the World (9+)
Tanya Landman, Buffalo Soldier (14+)
Geraldine McCaughrean, The Middle of Nowhere (11+)
Patrick Ness, More Than This (14+)

I haven't read any of those yet, but intend to do so before the Medal is awarded on 22 June. Six by women, two by men. If Ness wins, he will be the first to win three times. Gardner and McCaughrean are both past winners.
 
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The inaugural YA Book Award, presented by The Bookseller, has been awarded to Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill.

Shortlisted were:

A Song for Ella Grey, David Almond
Say Her Name, James Dawson
Half Bad, Sally Green
The Ghosts of Heaven, Marcus Sedgwick

The prize is open to UK and Irish writers and publishers.
 

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The inaugural YA Book Award, presented by The Bookseller, has been awarded to Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill.

Shortlisted were:

A Song for Ella Grey, David Almond
Say Her Name, James Dawson
Half Bad, Sally Green
The Ghosts of Heaven, Marcus Sedgwick

The prize is open to UK and Irish writers and publishers.

Just a heads-up; there were 10 books shortlisted.

Others were
Salvage, Keren David
Lobsters, Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison
Finding A Voice, Kim Hood
Trouble, Non Pratt
Goose, Dawn O'Porter
 

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Just a heads-up; there were 10 books shortlisted.

Others were
Salvage, Keren David
Lobsters, Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison
Finding A Voice, Kim Hood
Trouble, Non Pratt
Goose, Dawn O'Porter

Thanks. I lifted that from the Locus news item, which was clearly selective!

From the Carnegie shortlist, I should be starting Cuckoo Song tomorrow, as it is waiting at the library for me to collect.
 
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The Andre Norton Award for Best YA SF and Fantasy has gone to Love is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson.

Also nominated:

Sarah Rees Brennan, Unmade
Alexandra Duncan, Salvage
A.S. King, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
Sarah McCarry, Dirty Wings
Kate Milford, Greenglass House
Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
 

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Carnegie Medal shortlist, in alphabetical order by author. Age recommendations are those of the judges.

Brian Conaghan, When Mr Dog Bites (14+)
Sarah Crossan, Apple and Rain (11+)
Sally Gardner, Tinder (11+)
Frances Hardinge, Cuckoo Song (11+)
Elizabeth Laird, The Fastest Boy in the World (9+)
Tanya Landman, Buffalo Soldier (14+)
Geraldine McCaughrean, The Middle of Nowhere (11+)
Patrick Ness, More Than This (14+)

And the winner is Tanya Landman.

Certainly a worthy winner, though my pick would have been Frances Hardinge. I'm halfway through More than This and have read all the other seven.
 

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Longlist for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The winner will be announced on 19 November and there is likely to be a shortlist announced before then. In alphabetical order by author:

David Almond, A Song for Ella Grey
Cece Bell, El Deafo
Sarah Crossan, Apple and Rain
Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Sally Nicholls, An Island of Our Own
Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front
Jon Walter, My Name's Not Friday

Sic by women, two by men. Five Children om the Western Front won the Costa Prize and Apple and Rain (the only one I've read so far) was Carnegie-shortlisted. After Cuckoo Song I definitely want to read Frances Hardinge's new one. Several of these may well be on next year's Carnegie shortlist as the eligiibility as regards publication differs for that award.
 

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Longlist for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The winner will be announced on 19 November and there is likely to be a shortlist announced before then. In alphabetical order by author:

David Almond, A Song for Ella Grey
Cece Bell, El Deafo
Sarah Crossan, Apple and Rain
Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Sally Nicholls, An Island of Our Own
Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front
Jon Walter, My Name's Not Friday

And the shortlist is:

David Almond, A Song for Ella Grey
Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Sally Nicholls, An Island of Our Own
Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front
 

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And the shortlist is:

David Almond, A Song for Ella Grey
Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Sally Nicholls, An Island of Our Own
Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front

And the winner is David Almond.

The shortlist for the Costa Book Awards in the Children's Book category:

Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Hayley Long, Sophie Someone
Sally Nicholls, An Island of Our Own
Andrew Norriss, Jessica's Ghost

The winner will be announced on 4 January and it will go forward with the other category winners to be considered for the Costa Book of the Year, to be announced on 26 January.
 

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The shortlist for the Costa Book Awards in the Children's Book category:

Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Hayley Long, Sophie Someone
Sally Nicholls, An Island of Our Own
Andrew Norriss, Jessica's Ghost

The winner will be announced on 4 January and it will go forward with the other category winners to be considered for the Costa Book of the Year, to be announced on 26 January.

And the winner is Frances Hardinge.
 

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Yay! I really liked THE LIE TREE. Not quite as good as CUCKOO SONG, but really, how could anything top it?
 

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Yay! I really liked THE LIE TREE. Not quite as good as CUCKOO SONG, but really, how could anything top it?

She's just been announced as one of the guests of honour at Fantasycon in Scarborough (England) in September.
 

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And the winner is Frances Hardinge.

The Lie Tree has just been awarded Costa Book of the Year. The last time the winner of the Children's Book category went on to win the overall prize was back in 2001 when Philip Pullman won for The Amber Spyglass.
 

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Carnegie Medal longlist. The shortlist (usually eight books) will be announced on 15 March. As in previous years, I'm intending to read the shortlist, hopefully in time for the announcement of the winner, which will be on 20 June.In alphabetical order by author:

John Agard, Book
David Almond, A Song for Ella Grey
Sarah Crossan, One
Vanessa Curtis, The Earth is Singing
Sally Gardner, The Door That Led to Where
Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
A.F. Harrold, The Imaginary
Nick Lake, There Will Be Lies
Susin Nielsen, We Are All Made of Molecules
Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Andrew Norriss, Jessica's Ghost
David Owen, Panther
Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown
Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front
Marcus Sedgwick, The Ghosts of Heaven
Dave Shelton, Thirteen Chairs
Robin Talley, Lies We Tell Ourselves
Jenny Valentine, Fire Colour One
Jon Walter, My Name's Not Friday
Alex Wheatle, Liccle Bit
 
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And here's the Carnegie Medal shortlist. I'll add the judges' age recommendations when I know them - they're not on the site yet. (ETA: Age recommendations now added. Generally the list is slanted more towards YA than MG, but no 14+ titles this time.)

Sarah Crossan, One (12+)
Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree (10+)
Nick Lake, There Will Be Lies (12+)
Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here (13+)
Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front (9+)
Marcus Sedgwick, The Ghosts of Heaven (12+)
Robin Talley, Lies We Tell Ourselves (13+)
Jenny Valentine, Fire Colour One (12+)

Five by women, three by men.

I haven't yet read any of these but will do, as I have done every year since 2009. At first sight it seems pretty solid and is heavy on previous shortlistees. It includes last year and this year's Costa Children's Book winners (Saunders and Hardinge), this year's going on to win the Costa Book of the Year. Ness could become the first author to win the Medal three times. Robin Talley is the only first-time shortlistee, and the others have all written novels in the past I've liked very much. So looking forward to my annual shortlist read.
 
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And here's the Carnegie Medal shortlist. I'll add the judges' age recommendations when I know them - they're not on the site yet.

Sarah Crossan, One
Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Nick Lake, There Will Be Lies
Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front
Marcus Sedgwick, The Ghosts of Heaven
Robin Talley, Lies We Tell Ourselves
Jenny Valentine, Fire Colour One

Five by women, three by men.

I haven't yet read any of these but will do, as I have done every year since 2009. At first sight it seems pretty solid and is heavy on previous shortlistees. It includes last year and this year's Costa Children's Book winners (Saunders and Hardinge), this year's going on to win the Costa Book of the Year. Ness could become the first author to win the Medal three times. Robin Talley is the only first-time shortlistee, and the others have all written novels in the past I've liked very much. So looking forward to my annual shortlist read.

What I'm really getting from this is if you want to be short listed for the Carnegie Medal, your book title best have either the word "Lies" or the word "One" in it.
 

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What I'm really getting from this is if you want to be short listed for the Carnegie Medal, your book title best have either the word "Lies" or the word "One" in it.

But if you want to win, your title should begin with a B (the last two years) or a M (the three years before that). So it's obviously a more open field this year!
 

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And here's the Carnegie Medal shortlist. I'll add the judges' age recommendations when I know them - they're not on the site yet. (ETA: Age recommendations now added. Generally the list is slanted more towards YA than MG, but no 14+ titles this time.)

Sarah Crossan, One (12+)
Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree (10+)
Nick Lake, There Will Be Lies (12+)
Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here (13+)
Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front (9+)
Marcus Sedgwick, The Ghosts of Heaven (12+)
Robin Talley, Lies We Tell Ourselves (13+)
Jenny Valentine, Fire Colour One (12+)

And the winner is Sarah Crossan. The inaugural Amnesty CILIP Honour award (given by a different jury from the same shortlist, to a book foregrounding human rights) goes to Robin Talley.

I guessed the latter would win as soon as I heard the award would be given. As for the main award, I haven't quite finished reading the shortlist (I'm a third through Jenny Valentine's novel and have completed the others) but I got the winner dead wrong - I would have given it to Marcus Sedgwick. But it's a strong shortlist.
 
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2016 National Book Award finalists, young people’s literature

Kate DiCamillo, “Raymie Nightingale” (Candlewick Press)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0763681172/?tag=absowrit-20
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raymie-nightingale-kate-dicamillo/1122718605?ean=9780763681173

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (artist) “March: Book Three” (Top Shelf)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1603094024/?tag=absowrit-20
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/march-john-lewis/1123582696?ean=9781603094023

Grace Lin, “When the Sea Turned to Silver” (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/031612592X/?tag=absowrit-20
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-the-sea-turned-to-silver-grace-lin/1123210575?ean=9780316125925

Jason Reynolds, “Ghost” (Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1481450158/?tag=absowrit-20
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghost-jason-reynolds/1123385508?ean=9781481450157

Nicola Yoon, “The Sun Is Also a Star” (Delacorte Press / Penguin Random House)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553496689/?tag=absowrit-20
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-sun-is-also-a-star-nicola-yoon/1123596765?ean=9780553496680
 

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THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR isn't even out until November :/ I wonder what the release date parameters are.
 

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Oops, looks like I didn't list the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize longlist back in July. Here it is:

Malorie Blackman, Chasing the Stars
Zana Fraillon, The Bone Sparrow
G.R. Gemin, Sweet Pizza
Bonnie Sue Hitchcock, The Smell of Other People's Houses
Tanya Landman, Hell and High Water
Brian Selznick, The Marvels
Martin Stewart, Riverkeep
Alex Wheatle, Crongton Knights

Four each by women and men.

The shortlist was announced yesterday:

Zana Fraillon, The Bone Sparrow
Tanya Landman, Hell and High Water
Brian Selznick, The Marvels
Alex Wheatle, Crongton Knights

The winner will be announced on 17 November.
 
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