Manchester Book Award
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The Manchester Book Award is a project run in Manchester, UK, organised by School Services at Manchester City Council's Library and Information Service; it is funded by the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund.
A longlist of twenty-four children's books is put forward by secondary-school pupils and publishers; books on this list had to have been standalone books (that is, not sequels) published between 1 July and 30 June, written by authors living in the UK. Reading groups 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; the deadline for voting is 10 March.
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[edit] List of Prize Winners
- 2008 Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie
- 2007 Beast by Ally Kennen
- 2006 Stuff by Jeremy Strong
[edit] Shortlists
- 2008
- Being by Kevin Brooks
- The Devil's Breath: Danger Zone by David Gilman
- Do The Creepy Thing by Graham Joyce
- Berserk by Ally Kennen
- Nemesis by Catherine MacPhail
- Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie
- 2007
- Ingo by Helen Dunmore
- The Drowning Pond by Catherine Forde
- Hold On by Alan Gibbons
- Until Proven Guilty by Nigel Hinton
- Beast by Ally Kennen
- The Innocent's Story by Nicky Singer
- 2006
- Jimmy Coates: Killer by Joe Craig
- The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney
- Roxy's Baby by Catherine MacPhail
- Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
- Stuff by Jeremy Strong
- Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah
[edit] Longlists
- 2008
- Darkside by Tom Becker
- Dirty Work by Julia Bell
- Being by Kevin Brooks
- The Spellgrinder's Apprentice by N. M. Browne
- Sundae Girl by Cathy Cassidy
- Sebastian Darke by Philip Caveney
- Waves by Sharon Dogar
- Tug of War by Catherine Forde
- The Devil's Breath: Danger Zone by David Gilman
- Do The Creepy Thing by Graham Joyce
- Berserk by Ally Kennen
- Roundabout by Rhiannon Lassiter
- Red Fox Running by Robin Lloyd Jones
- Kill Swap by James Lovegrove
- Nemesis by Catherine MacPhail
- Twin Freaks by Paul Magrs
- Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie
- Angel by Cliff McNish
- Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
- The Rope Ladder by Nigel Richardson
- Kiss of Death by Malcolm Rose
- My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick
- Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine
- Fight Game by K. Wild
- 2007
- Clay by David Almond
- Smokescreen by Bernard Ashley
- Sara's Face by Melvin Burgess
- Scarlett by Cathy Cassidy
- Thieves Like Us by Stephen Cole
- Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Cloud World by David Cunningham
- Ingo by Helen Dunmore
- The Drowning Pond by Catherine Forde
- Hold On by Alan Gibbons
- The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
- Fur by Meg Harper
- Until Proven Guilty by Nigel Hinton
- Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz
- Beast by Ally Kennen
- Exchange by Paul Magrs
- The Riddles of Epsilon by Christine Morton-Shaw
- Seeker by William Nicholson
- Tamar by Mal Peet
- The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick
- Tins by Alex Shearer
- The Innocent's Story by Nicky Singer
- Heretic by Sarah Singleton
- Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton
- 2006
- The Diary of Pelly-D by L. J. Adlington
- Ten Days to Zero by Bernard Ashley
- Paralysed by Sherry Ashworth
- Divided City by Theresa Breslin
- Bloodline by Kevin Brooks
- Candy by Kevin Brooks
- Indigo Blue by Cathy Cassidy
- Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Jimmy Coates: Killer by Joe Craig
- The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney
- Skarrs by Catherine Forde
- The Fearful by Keith Gray
- The Merrybegot by Julie Hearn
- SilverFin by Charlie Higson
- Jacob's Ladder by Brian Keaney
- Roxy's Baby by Catherine Macphail
- The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo
- Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
- The Hunted by Alex Shearer
- Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean by Justin Somper
- Stuff by Jeremy Strong
- Branded by Robert Swindells
- The Unrivalled Spangles by Karen Wallace
- Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah
