Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007
Established in 2003, the Booktrust Teenage Prize recognised the best in contemporary writing for teenagers. Unique in its involvement of teenagers in the judging process, giving four winners of a short story competition the opportunity to debate and vote on the shortlisted books with the adult judging panel, the Prize garnered a reputation for earmarking very special writers often early in their career, including Mark Haddon, Patrick Ness, Marcus Sedgwick and Anthony Macgowan. The Booktrust Teenage Prize was last awarded in 2010 and is no longer running.
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Winner
My Swordhand is Singing
Orion Children's BooksSet in the seventeenth century amid the bleakness of winter in Eastern Europe, and inspired by vampire folklore, this is a superbly crafted, dark and menacing tale.
My Swordhand is Singing
Marcus Sedgwick
Winner, Booktrust Teenage Prize
Set in the seventeenth century amid the bleakness of winter in Eastern Europe, and inspired by vampire folklore, this is a superbly crafted, dark and menacing tale.
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
Marcus SedgwickMarcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick began to write seriously in 1994, and his first book, Floodland, was published by Orion in 2000, and won the Branford-Boase award for best debut children's novel. Witch Hill followed in 2001, and was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Independent Reading Association award and the Portsmouth Book Award. In 2002 The Dark Horse was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, The Carnegie Medal and the Blue Peter Book Award.
The Book of Dead Days was nominated for the Guardian Award, and was shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
In his spare time, Marcus is a drummer and at the moment play’s the part of Basil Exposition from behind the kit in The International Band of Mystery, an Austin Powers tribute band.
Marcus Sedgwick used to work in children's publishing and before that he was a bookseller. He now happily writes full-time. Marcus lives in Cambridge and has a young daughter, Alice.
http://www.marcussedgwick.com/Marcus_Sedgwick/Home.html
Shortlist
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My Swordhand is Singing
Orion Children's Books
My Swordhand is Singing
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted, Booktrust Teenage Prize
Set in the seventeenth century amid the bleakness of winter in Eastern Europe, and inspired by vampire folklore, this is a superbly crafted, dark and menacing tale.
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
Marcus SedgwickMarcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick began to write seriously in 1994, and his first book, Floodland, was published by Orion in 2000, and won the Branford-Boase award for best debut children's novel. Witch Hill followed in 2001, and was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Independent Reading Association award and the Portsmouth Book Award. In 2002 The Dark Horse was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, The Carnegie Medal and the Blue Peter Book Award.
The Book of Dead Days was nominated for the Guardian Award, and was shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
In his spare time, Marcus is a drummer and at the moment play’s the part of Basil Exposition from behind the kit in The International Band of Mystery, an Austin Powers tribute band.
Marcus Sedgwick used to work in children's publishing and before that he was a bookseller. He now happily writes full-time. Marcus lives in Cambridge and has a young daughter, Alice.
http://www.marcussedgwick.com/Marcus_Sedgwick/Home.html -
Just In Case
Puffin
Just In Case
Meg Rosoff
Shortlisted, Booktrust Teenage Prize
This quirky, off-beat novel acutely depicts the feelings of pain and alienation felt by many adolescents
Publisher: Puffin
Meg RosoffMeg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, USA in 1956, the second of four sisters. She attended Harvard University in 1974. After three years at Harvard she moved to England and studied sculpture at Central St. Martins in London, England. She returned to the United States to finish her degree in 1980, and later moved to New York City for nine years, where she worked in publishing and advertising.
Aged 32, Meg returned to London and has lived there ever since. Between 1989 and 2003, she worked for a variety of advertising agencies as a copywriter. She began to write novels after her youngest sister died of breast cancer. Her young adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004, in the same week she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It won The Guardian Children's Fiction prize, the Michael L. Printz Award in the United States, and was shortlisted for a Whitbread Award in 2004. In 2005 she published a children's book, Meet Wild Boars, which was illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Her second novel, Just in Case, was published in 2006 and won the 2007 CILIP Carnegie Medal and Germany's Jugendliteraturpreis. What I Was was published on August 30, 2007, followed by two additional collaborations with Sophie Blackall: Wild Boars Cook and Jumpy Jack and Googily. She has also published The Bride's Farewell. There is no Dog is her latest novel.
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Here Lies Arthur
Scholastic
Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve
Shortlisted, Booktrust Teenage Prize
The violence is darkly terrifying, the sense of landscape immediate and haunting and Gwyna/Gwyn's shifting gender permits Reeve to cast a unique, strikingly vivid glimpse into dark-age Britain.
Publisher: Scholastic
Philip Reeve Photo: © Dominic TurnerPhilip Reeve
Philip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he worked in a bookshop for a number of years. Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons for around forty children’s books, including the best-selling Horrible Histories, Murderous Maths and Dead Famous series.
Mortal Engines was Philip’s first book to be published, and this developed into a series – Predator Cities. His latest book is Goblins.
Philip lives on Dartmoor with his wife and son, and his interests are walking, drawing, writing and reading. Visit Philip's site:
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The Penalty
Walker Books
The Penalty
Mal Peet
Shortlisted, Booktrust Teenage Prize
Paul Faustino is reluctantly drawn into investigating the disappearance of San Juan's teenage football prodigy El Brujito.
Publisher: Walker Books
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Leaving Poppy
Scholastic
Leaving Poppy
Kate Cann
Shortlisted, Booktrust Teenage Prize
A modern-day gothic horror story, which mixes the creepy with teenage experiences of love and identity.
Publisher: Scholastic
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The Medici Seal
Doubleday
The Medici Seal
Theresa Breslin
Shortlisted, Booktrust Teenage Prize
A carefully reasoned and historically informed novel about growing up and making choices
Publisher: Doubleday
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