Bookbuzz 2013 titles announced

Image taken from 'Dear Scarlett' by Fleur Hitchcock

30 April 2013

We're happy to announce a brilliant array of prize-winners and bestselling authors in the second year of our reading programmed aimed at 11-year-olds.

Bookbuzz, Booktrust's reading programme for 11-year-olds, offers secondary schools the chance to give their Year 7 students the choice of a book from this carefully selected, diverse list of 17 titles including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Bookbuzz aims to support reading for pleasure and independent choice at the important transition stage from primary to secondary education. It also works to encourage a whole school reading culture.

This year's list includes a plethora of prize winning authors including a Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winner and a Carnegie Medal winner.

The full list of titles for Bookbuzz 2013 is:

Soldier Dog by Sam Angus (Macmillan)
Butterfly Summer by Anne-Marie Conway (Usborne)
After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross (Oxford University Press)
Dear Scarlett by Fleur Hitchcock (Nosy Crow)
Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud by Andrew Lane (Macmillan)
Sky Hawk by Gill Lewis (Oxford University Press)
Payback by Graham Marks (Franklin Watts)
Space: The Whole Whizz Bang Story by Glenn Murphy (Macmillan)
Gods and Warriors by Michelle Paver (Penguin)
Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things by Michael Rosen (Penguin)
Dark Lord: The Teenage Years by Jamie Thomson (Orchard Books)
My Best Friend and Other Enemies by Catherine Wilkins (Nosy Crow)
Killer Animals: The Wimp's Guide by Tracey Turner (Franklin Watts)
Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants by Giles Andreae and Korky Paul (Penguin)
The Pirates Next Door by Jonny Duddle (Templar)
Oh Dear Geoffrey! by Gemma O'Neill (Templar)
Giggle Giggle What's So Funny? by Ben Mantle (Macmillan)