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Longing for the long list?

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Then long no longer.

It’s here – it’s long(ish) and it’s pre diction time! Take a look at the long list and tell me the final 8 you think might just make it to the next round it’s like the X-Factor but smarter.

Who will win this year?

    2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal Long listed titles are:

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)

Our Award won an Award

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Who?Yes this may be the oddest headline you will see all week.
As you may know Saint Ninian’s took part in an official Guinness World Record attempt at having the most numbers of people writing the same story at the same time. Our attempt was successful and I have the certificate in the library to prove it- come and see it!
Weeeeeelll, our lovely co-ordinater Barbara Band of the School Librarian’s Network thought why not put this achievement up for an award itself?

CILIP – (the library association to mere mortals)has an award each year for the best promotion of our proffession and the GWR attempt won a Bronze Award!.

So that explains the headline.
Perhaps I should get it to sit a Higher next year… hmmm?

Double well done to all those pupils and staff who supported the event and me for co-ordinating the Saint. Ninian’s effort.

Scottish Book Trust Reviews

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will you pick a winner

Have you been shadowing the SBT awards?
Or did you just pick up one by accident and want to let the world know it was good/bad/indifferent.

Well just follow the link here and you could win a prize.

Try to make your review interesting and enlightening, which is quite a tough task when reviews must only be 200 words long.
Good Luck.

Titles that can be reviewed are :
The 13th Horseman by Barry Hutchison
Code name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
The Prince who Walked with Lions by Elizabeth Laird