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| Matt Whyman |
Booktrust, the independent educational charity that
encourages people of all ages to read books, has announced
the eight shortlisted titles for the 2004 Booktrust Teenage
Prize.
The Booktrust Teenage Prize was launched last year with
the aim to recognise and celebrate contemporary teenage
fiction.
The inaugral prize was won by Mark Haddon for his highly
acclaimed book The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which
went on to win the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the
Whitbread Prize and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize,
as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
A panel of five judges, who discussed every aspect of the
books before reaching their decision, chose the eight shortlisted
titles.
The eight shortlisted books are:
The
Dark Beneath by Alan
Gibbons (Orion)
Looking
for JJ by Anne
Cassidy (Scholastic)
Deep
Secret by Berlie
Doherty (Puffin)
Rani
and Sukh by Bali
Rai (Corgi)
Boy
Kills Man by Matt
Whyman (Hodder)
Fat
Boy Swim by Catherine
Forde (Egmont)
The
Opposite of Chocolate by Julie
Bertagna (Macmillan)
Unique
by Alison
Allen-Gray (Oxford University Press)
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