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Leicester Book of the Year Award Announces Shortlist
The shortlist for the Leicester Book of the Year Award for Teenage Fiction 2007 is announced this week.
The award is organised by Leicester Libraries and is now in its 6th year. Previous winners include Bali Rai (2002, 2004), Alan Gibbons (2003), Benjamin Zephaniah (2005) and Sherry Ashworth (2006)
Young people from twelve Leicester city secondary schools gathered on 21st February at New Walk Museum to select the five shortlisted books. Hundreds of books were submitted for consideration by major UK publishers but only five could make it onto the shortlist.
The shortlist as selected by the young people of Leicester is:
Close-Up by Sherry Ashworth
Damage by Sue Mayfield
Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
The Outlaw Varjak Paw by S F Said / Dave McKean
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Copies of the shortlisted books will be available to read in school libraries from mid-March. Any young person attending a participating school can help to choose the winner by reading the books and then voting for their favourite. More information can be found by talking to your school librarian or looking at the award website: www.teenagefiction.wordpress.com
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