School Book Awards
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Life of Pi
One boy, one boat, one tiger... After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 335
Long Way Down **Shortlisted For The Carnegie Medal**
AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTS, Everybody ran, ducked, hid, tucked themselves tight.
Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by the buzz of a bullet, didn't meet us.
After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 322
- MBE Code : 223
Look Both Ways (Carnegie Medal Winner 2021)
When the bell rings and school is finished for the day, the walkers are finally set free. For ten blocks they have no-one telling them what to do; they can talk about bogies, skateboard, plan dramatic escapes, make jokes, face bullies, and hear about...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 200
- MBE Code : 641
Looking For JJ
An emotionally searing novel that will grip every reader from start to finish. The storyline of Looking For JJ explores the circumstances and motives behind the murder of a child, which was done by her own friend.
Now six years on, JJ has been ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 300
- MBE Code : 176
Machine Gunners
Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth, and he desperately wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the remains of a German bomber crashed in the woods - its shiny, black machine-gun still intact - he grabs ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 355
Maggot Moon
Winner of the Carnegie Medal and a 2012 Costa Award winner.
Narrated against the backdrop of a ruthless regime determined to beat its enemies in the race to the moon, Maggot Moon is the astonishing new novel from award-winning author Sally ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 356
Medusa – Retelling **Shortlisted For The YOTO Carnegie Award**
If I told you that I'd killed a man with a glance, would you wait to hear the rest? The why, the how, what happened next?
Monster. Man-hater. Murderess. Forget everything you've been told about Medusa.
Internationally bestselling author Jessie ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 172
- MBE Code : 651
Millions
Defined to be an absolute treasure! Millions includes the characters of Damian and Anthony, who are brothers that are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to joining the Euro.
Finding themselves with a sudden vast ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 172
Moonrise
Shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award, The YA Book Prize, CBI Book Of The Year Award and the CLIPPA Award. Moonrise is described to be a book that will leave the reader in tears.
Joe has not seen his brother in ten years and it is for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 385
- MBE Code : 191
My Name is Mina
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.
There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It's been there for an age. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. So I'll start right here, right now. I open the book and write the very...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 403
My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece
My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece, is based around the time of five years ago, when Jamie’s sister, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. And as an act of grief, the family were torn apart.
His mum ran away,
His dad turns to drink and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 234
- MBE Code : 201
My Swordhand Is Singing
Written by the talented Marcus Sedgwick and set in the 17th century, My Swordhand Is Singing is based around the inspiration of the original vampire folk of Eastern Europe.
Featuring Tomas and his son Peter, they arrive in Chust, but there are ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 231
Needle
Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence explores the harsh reality of the criminal justice system for young people in this riveting teen drama.
Charlene is a demon knitter. It’s the only thing she enjoys and the only thing she believes she’s ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 120
- MBE Code : 481
October, October (Carnegie Winner 2022)
A classic in the making for anyone who ever longed to be WILD.October and her dad live in the woods. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They live in the woods and they are wild. And that's the way it is.Until ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 292
- MBE Code : 451
One (Winner Of The Carnegie Medal 2016)
A story reflecting on the life of two sisters who are in fact conjoined. Grace and Tippi are joined at the waist and have been defying the odds of their survival for sixteen years. United in blood and bone, they both don't like being stared and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 192
- MBE Code : 233
Pig Heart Boy
This thirteen-year-old just wants to live a normal life, like every other thirteen-year-old kid he knows. But most normal kids don't need a heart transplant…
So, a doctor has been discovered and he says that there is a chance for him to live a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 262
Punching The Air (Carnegie Shortlisted 2022)
One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. ‘Boys just being boys’ turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal Shahid’s bright future is upended:...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 386
- MBE Code : 449
Railhead
Step on board, because the universe is waiting.
The CILIP Carnegie Medal shortlist title of Railhead features “The Great Network” which features a place filled with drones, androids, Hive Monks and Station Angels.
This place is far from ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 299
Rebound **Shortlisted For The Carnegie Medal**
‘Hoop kings SOARin kicks with wings.Game so sweetit’s like bee stings.’It's 1988. Charlie Bell is still mourning his father, and struggling to figure out how he feels for his best (girl) friend, CJ. When he gets into trouble one too many times,...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 414
- MBE Code : 243
Revolver
Recipient of a Michael L. Printz Honor 2011
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010
Longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010
Sig Andersson has a choice to make - use the gun or die. An unforgettable, razor-sharp ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 380
Rooftoppers
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.
Already being proclaimed a classic in children's literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 364
Run, Rebel
I am restless, my feet need to fly.Amber is trapped - by her father's rules, by his expectations, by her own fears.Now she's ready to fight - for her mother, for her sister, for herself.Freedom always comes at a price.Run, Rebel is a trailblazing ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 496
- MBE Code : 437
Safiyyah’s War (Shortlisted For The Yoto Carnegie Medal 2024)
War comes to the streets of Paris and Safiyyah’s life changes for ever.
Her best friend’s family have fled, and the bombing makes her afraid to leave the mosque where she lives. But when her father is arrested by the Nazis for his secret ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 582
Saint Death
Saint Death is a captivating thriller featuring migrants, drug lords and gang warfare that’s set on the US/Mexican border.
Anapra is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Mexican city of Juarez and twenty metres outside the town lies a fence,...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 270
- MBE Code : 314
Salt To The Sea (Carnegie Medal Winner 2017)
Set in early 1945, a group of people make the decision to trek across Germany in a bound for their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land they live in. But this is the only opportunity they have left for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 400
- MBE Code : 245