Keren David wins Angus Book Award

Author Keren David has won the 2011 Angus Book Award for her novel When I Was Joe. 

When I Was Joe is published by Frances Lincoln Children’s Books.    Before launching her career as a writer of teenage novels, Keren David worked as a journalist and editor.  When I Was Joe is her debut teenage novel.

An ice-cold thriller about identity, pain and veracity… David writes in steely, short sentences as Joe grapples with his new school, his mother’s inertia and his own deadly secret…This is a brooding novel that incorporates some shocking ideas and portrays the whole bewildering mess of Tyler’s upturned life (Daily Telegraph)

Keren David has written an action-packed and suspense-filled novel that remains gritty and real. (SoLittleTimeforBooks )

GCBA Winners 2011

Quote from Charlie Higson

it's fantastic to win this award as it is voted for, not by stuffy old
adults who like to give awards to books they think that children ought
to read, but by the kids themselves, who vote for what they actually
like to read. So this is a great honour - Grampian kids obviously have
very good taste. And congratulations to Catherine McPhail, murder,
mayhem and kids in big trouble are obviously very popular at the moment.

Carnegie 2011 Shortlist announced!

6 books are included in the shortlist of which we have 3 in stock already and hope to have the other 3 shortly.

Against diverse settings that range from 15th century Spain, 19th century England and 19th century France, to Zimbabwe in the 1980s, 18th century England, and an imaginary planet, light years away from Earth, the six shortlisted books consider the qualities that unify us as human beings, despite the longest of odds and the fiercest of enmities. By showing how entrenched beliefs can be overturned and moral dilemmas resolved, they demonstrate the value of integrity, and generate a sense of hope through rich story-telling of outstanding quality.

The winner will be announced on 23rd June. 

Carnegie book medley

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