Manchester Book Award facts for kids
The Manchester Book Award is a project run in Manchester, UK, organised by School Services at the Manchester Library & Information Service; it is funded by the Working Neighbourhoods Fund. The project is currently in its fourth year.
Each year, a longlist of twenty-four children's books is drawn up from nominations by secondary-school pupils, school and library staff, and publishers. To be eligible for the longlist books have to be standalone books (that is, not sequels) published between 1 July and 30 June, written by authors living in the UK. Reading groups in schools and libraries then narrow this to a shortlist of six. In the following January, young people across Manchester start voting for their favourite, either online or in libraries and schools; voting for the 2009 award closed on 5 March.
The winner of the award is announced each year at a ceremony at the City of Manchester Stadium attended by pupils from the 24 state secondary schools in Manchester. The ceremony was compered in 2008 and 2009 by Paul Sleem.
The 2009 award was announced by Coronation Street actress, Julie Hesmondhalgh, on 11 March 2009.
List of Prize Winners
- 2009 Six Steps to a Girl by Sophie McKenzie
- 2008 Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie
- 2007 Beast by Ally Kennen
- 2006 Stuff by Jeremy Strong
Winners, shortlists, and longlists
The following is a listing of all honoured books, including winners, shortlists, and longlists.
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Jeremy Strong | Stuff | Winner | |
| Joe Craig | Jimmy Coates: Killer | Shortlist | ||
| Joseph Delaney | The Spook's Apprentice | Shortlist | ||
| Catherine MacPhail | Roxy's Baby | Shortlist | ||
| Michelle Paver | Wolf Brother | Shortlist | ||
| Benjamin Zephaniah | Gangsta Rap | Shortlist | ||
| L. J. Adlington | The Diary of Pelly-D | Longlist | ||
| Bernard Ashley | Ten Days to Zero | Longlist | ||
| Sherry Ashworth | Paralysed | Longlist | ||
| Theresa Breslin | Divided City | Longlist | ||
| Kevin Brooks | Bloodline | Longlist | ||
| Kevin Brooks | Candy | Longlist | ||
| Cathy Cassidy | Indigo Blue | Longlist | ||
| Frank Cottrell Boyce | Millions | Longlist | ||
| Catherine Forde | Skarrs | Longlist | ||
| Keith Gray | The Fearful | Longlist | ||
| Julie Hearn | The Merrybegot | Longlist | ||
| Charlie Higson | SilverFin | Longlist | ||
| Brian Keaney | Jacob's Ladder | Longlist | ||
| Michael Morpurgo | The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips | Longlist | ||
| Alex Shearer | The Hunted | Longlist | ||
| Justin Somper | Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean | Longlist | ||
| Robert Swindells | Branded | Longlist | ||
| Karen Wallace | The Unrivalled Spangles | Longlist | ||
| 2007 | Ally Kennen | Beast | Winner | |
| Helen Dunmore | Ingo | Shortlist | ||
| Catherine Forde | The Drowning Pond | Shortlist | ||
| Alan Gibbons | Hold On | Shortlist | ||
| Nigel Hinton | Until Proven Guilty | Shortlist | ||
| Nicky Singer | The Innocent's Story | Shortlist | ||
| David Almond | Clay | Longlist | ||
| Bernard Ashley | Smokescreen | Longlist | ||
| Melvin Burgess | Sara's Face | Longlist | ||
| Cathy Cassidy | Scarlett | Longlist | ||
| Stephen Cole | Thieves Like Us | Longlist | ||
| Frank Cottrell Boyce | Framed | Longlist | ||
| David Cunningham | Cloud World | Longlist | ||
| Julia Golding | The Diamond of Drury Lane | Longlist | ||
| Meg Harper | Fur | Longlist | ||
| Anthony Horowitz | Raven's Gate | Longlist | ||
| Paul Magrs | Exchange | Longlist | ||
| Christine Morton-Shaw | The Riddles of Epsilon | Longlist | ||
| William Nicholson | Seeker | Longlist | ||
| Mal Peet | Tamar | Longlist | ||
| Marcus Sedgwick | The Foreshadowing | Longlist | ||
| Alex Shearer | Tins | Longlist | ||
| Sarah Singleton | Heretic | Longlist | ||
| Matthew Skelton | Endymion Spring | Longlist | ||
| 2008 | Sophie McKenzie | Girl, Missing | Winner | |
| Kevin Brooks | Being | Shortlist | ||
| David Gilman | The Devil's Breath: Danger Zone | Shortlist | ||
| Graham Joyce | Do The Creepy Thing | Shortlist | ||
| Ally Kennen | Berserk | Shortlist | ||
| Catherine MacPhail | Nemesis | Shortlist | ||
| Tom Becker | Darkside | Longlist | ||
| Julia Bell | Dirty Work | Longlist | ||
| N. M. Browne | The Spellgrinder's Apprentice | Longlist | ||
| Cathy Cassidy | Sundae Girl | Longlist | ||
| Philip Caveney | Sebastian Darke | Longlist | ||
| Sharon Dogar | Waves | Longlist | ||
| Catherine Forde | Tug of War | Longlist | ||
| Robin Lloyd Jones | Red Fox Running | Longlist | ||
| Rhiannon Lassiter | Roundabout | Longlist | ||
| James Lovegrove | Kill Swap | Longlist | ||
| Paul Magrs | Twin Freaks | Longlist | ||
| Cliff McNish | Angel | Longlist | ||
| Philip Reeve | Here Lies Arthur | Longlist | ||
| Nigel Richardson | The Rope Ladder | Longlist | ||
| Malcolm Rose | Kiss of Death | Longlist | ||
| Marcus Sedgwick | My Swordhand is Singing | Longlist | ||
| Jenny Valentine | Finding Violet Park | Longlist | ||
| K. Wild | Fight Game | Longlist | ||
| 2009 | Sophie McKenzie | Six Steps to a Girl | Winner | |
| Anne Cassidy | Forget Me Not | Shortlist | ||
| J. A. Henderson | Crash | Shortlist | ||
| Eva Ibbotson | The Dragonfly Pool | Shortlist | ||
| Sally Nicholls | Ways to Live Forever | Shortlist | ||
| Sarah Singleton | The Amethyst Child | Shortlist | ||
| Bernard Ashley | Angel Boy | Longlist | ||
| Cathy Cassidy | Lucky Star | Longlist | ||
| Frank Cottrell Boyce | Cosmic | Longlist | ||
| Berlie Doherty | Abela | Longlist | ||
| Siobhan Dowd | Bog Child | Longlist | ||
| Catherine Forde | Sugarcoated | Longlist | ||
| Julia Golding | Dragonfly | Longlist | ||
| Keith Gray | Ghosting | Longlist | ||
| Nick Hornby | Slam | Longlist | ||
| Elizabeth Laird | Lost Riders | Longlist | ||
| Rhiannon Lassiter | Bad Blood | Longlist | ||
| Kate Le Vann | Rain | Longlist | ||
| Anthony McGowan | The Knife That Killed Me | Longlist | ||
| Michael Morpurgo | Born to Run | Longlist | ||
| Patrick Ness | The Knife of Never Letting Go | Longlist | ||
| Chris Priestley | Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror | Longlist | ||
| E. E. Richardson | Grave Dirt | Longlist | ||
| Jenny Valentine | Broken Soup | Longlist |
