School Book Awards
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The House with Chicken Legs
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2019.Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019.Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019.Shortlisted for Children's Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2019.Marinka ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 338
- MBE Code : 221
The Land Of Neverendings **Shortlisted For The Carnegie Medal**
Emily watched, in a trance of astonishment, as the bear opened the picnic basket, took out a tartan rug and spread it on Holly's bed. And then the penguin spoke. Actually spoke. 'What's going on? This isn't Pointed End!'The bear said, 'It looks ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 318
- MBE Code : 248
The Last Firefox
Between bullies at school and changes at home, Charlie Challinor finds life a bit scary. And when he's made guardian of a furry fox cub called Cadno, things get a whole lot scarier.
Because Cadno isn't just any fox: he's a firefox - the only one ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 296
- MBE Code : 528
The Last Wild
From the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction PrizeThis is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn't know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this:1. There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom.2. ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 376
The Lie Tree
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015.
The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night.
Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 432
- MBE Code : 397
The Light In Everything (Shortlisted for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2023)
From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022, comes a life-affirming story about blended families and learning to find room in your heart for new life and new love.
Tom is still quiet and timid, even though his dad ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 318
- MBE Code : 522
The Night Bus Hero
I've been getting into trouble for as long I can remember. Usually I don't mind 'cos some of my best, most brilliant ideas have come from sitting in detention.But recently it feels like no one believes me about anything - even when I'm telling the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 435
The Poet X **Shortlisted For The Carnegie Medal**
THE POET X - a stunning New York Times bestseller with a powerful and unforgettable YA voice. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi's The Children of Blood and Bone, Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and Sarah Crossan's One.Xiomara has always kept her ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 362
- MBE Code : 294
The Remains of the Day
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past...
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 422
The Skylarks War
The Skylarks' War is a beautiful story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the harsh backdrop of World War One, from the award-winning Hilary McKay.
Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 306
- MBE Code : 197
The Song Walker (Shortlisted For The Yoto Carnegie Medal 2024)
"There are three questions that I need to find the answers to:
Where am I?
What am I doing here?
And... Who am I?"
When a young girl wakes up in the middle of the desert, she has no idea who she is. She's wearing one shoe, a silky black dress, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 579
The Super Miraculous Journey Of Freddie Yates
Freddie Yates likes facts. Just not the one staring him in the face - that his secret plan is not, in fact, secret.
Because Freddie's journey wasn't meant to involve Big Trev and the onion-eating competition or the loo-exploding pear-and-potato ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 529
Things A Bright Girl Can Do **Shortlisted For The Carnegie Medal**
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book PrizeThrough rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 420
- MBE Code : 222
Tyger
Adam has found something incredible in a rubbish dump in London. A mysterious, mythical, magical animal. A TYGER. And the tyger is in danger.
Adam and his friend Zadie are determined to help, but it isn't just the tyger's life at stake. Their ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 629
We Were Liars
A beautiful and distinguished family.A private island.A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.A group of four friends-the Liars-whose friendship turns destructive.A revolution. An accident. A secret.Lies upon lies.True love.The truth.
- Book Cover : paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 453
Wed Wabbit
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN S BOOK AWARD 2017. You're called Fidge and you're nearly eleven. You've been hurled into a strange world. You have three companions: two are unbelievably weird and the third is your awful cousin Graham. You have to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 250
- MBE Code : 168
When Shadows Fall (Shortlisted for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2023)
Kai, Orla and Zak grew up together, their days spent on the patch of wilderness in between their homes, a small green space in a sprawling grey city. Music, laughter and friendship bind them together and they have big plans for their future – until...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 346
- MBE Code : 524
When The Sky Falls (Carnegie Shortlisted 2022)
1941. War is raging. And one angry boy has been sent to the city, where bombers rule the skies. There, Joseph will live with Mrs F, a gruff woman with no fondness for children. Her only loves are the rundown zoo she owns and its mighty silverback ...
- Number Of Pages : 310
- MBE Code : 447
Where The World Ends *Carnegie Winner 2018*
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018.Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home.Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they've been ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 318
- MBE Code : 208
Windrush Child
Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger to him, it’s cold and even the Jamaican food doesn’t taste the same as it did back home in Maroon Town. But his parents have brought him ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 441
You’re The One That I Want
Freddie is unremarkable – too unremarkable. He doesn’t stand out in any way, and in fact teachers and fellow students keep forgetting who he is. Even his mum thinks he’s a disappointment, and spends almost all her time at work, producing a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 364
- MBE Code : 477