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Carnegie Winner 2019!
The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
Station Zero: Railhead Book 3, Philip Reeve
Xiomara, a fierce teenage girl of Dominican
The stunning conclusion to the acclaimed
heritage, is starting to notice boys, but her
Railhead trilogy. What happens after the
strict Catholic parents have decided that
adventure of a lifetime? For Zen, it's a safe,
there will be absolutely no contact with
comfortable life of luxury. But it's not what
them until marriage. Her twin brother is also
Zen wants. He misses the thrill of riding the
struggling with his own attraction to
rails, of dodging danger, and of breathing
another boy. A verse novel that sings with
the air of different planets. Most of all he
the rhythms of slam poetry, Xiomara’s
misses Nova - lost to him forever in a distant
powerful story expresses what it’s like to be
world. But then one day a mysterious
a teen girl suddenly in possession of a FIC ACE
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woman’s body, noticed and commented on
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message arrives - and that's all Zen needs to head off, ready for anything. Except that no
by men.
one could be ready for what he finds . . .
Rebound, Kwame Alexander
Mud, Emily Thomas
It’s 1988 and Charlie Bell is 12 years old and
It's 1979, and thirteen-year-old Lydia has no
going through the hardest time in his life
idea how she'll cope when her dad
after his dad dies from a stroke. It seems
announces that the family has to sell up and
like nothing can make him feel any joy in life
move onto a Thames sailing barge in Essex.
now and that nothing ever will. After he gets
With his girlfriend. And her three kids.
into a spot of trouble, his mum decides to
Between trying to keep her clothes dry in a
send him to spend the summer with his
leaky cabin, disastrous hair-dye attempts,
grandparents. Here, his cousin Roxie
awkward encounters with local boys, and
introduces him to basketball, his grandad
coping with her suddenly enormous and
introduces him to hard work and jazz, and things begin to change.
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troublesome family, Lydia fears she'll sink rather than swim . . .
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The Astonishing Colour of After Emily X. R. Pan
The House With Chicken Legs
Leigh is sixteen when her mother dies by
Every night is party night at Marinka’s
suicide, leaving a scribbled note: 'I want you
house. There’s food, drink, music and lively
to remember'. Leigh doesn't understand,
conversation… But all the guests are dead.
but when a red bird appears with a
Marinka’s grandmother is a Yaga, someone
message, she finds herself travelling to
who guides the recently dead through The
Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents
Gate so they can make their way back to the
for the first time. Overwhelmed by grief,
stars. Marinka is expected to follow in her
Leigh retreats into her art and into her
grandmother’s footsteps but she is
memories, where colours collide and the
desperate for a normal life. Can she really
Sophie Andersen
rules of reality are broken. The only thing Leigh is certain about is that she must find
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change her destiny or is her fate predetermined and unalterable?
out the truth. She must remember. Bone Talk
The Boy at the Back of the Class
Candy Gourlay
Onjali Q. Rauf
Samkad is a boy from a remote Filipino tribe
There used to be an empty chair at the back
in the highlands of the Philippines, back in
of my class, but now a new boy called
around 1899. When the story starts, Samkad
Ahmet is sitting in it. He's nine years old
is most worried about receiving the Cut
(just like me), but he's very strange. He
(something similar to circumcision that
never talks and never smiles and doesn't like
happens to boys at about 10 years old) and
sweets! But then I learned the truth: Ahmet
his slightly complicated friendship with a girl
isn't strange at all. He's a refugee who's run
called Luki. He has never met anyone from
away from a War. With bombs and fires and FIC RAU
bullies. The more I find out about him, the more I want to help, and my friends and I have come up with a plan….
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the world outside of his tribe, but then the FIC GOU
American invaders provide a much greater threat to everything he knows and loves.
Carnegie Shortlist 2019
A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge
The Lost Words Robert Macfarlane
When a creature dies, its spirit can go
All over the country, there are words
looking for somewhere to hide. Makepeace,
disappearing from children's lives. These are
a courageous girl with a mysterious past,
the words of the natural world - Dandelion,
defends herself nightly from the ghosts
Otter, Bramble and Acorn, all gone. The rich
which try to possess her. Then a dreadful
landscape of wild imagination and wild play
event causes her to drop her guard for a
is rapidly fading from our minds. With its
moment and now there’s a ghost inside her.
stunning illustration, poetry and riddles, The
The spirit is wild, brutish and strong, but it
Lost Words stands against the disappearance
may be her only defence in a time of dark FIC HAR
suspicion and fear.
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Things a Bright Girl Can Do, Sally Nicholls
of wild childhood.
Straw into Gold: Fairy Tales Re-Spun Hilary McKay
Imagine this: having to fight to go to
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university. Not being given a job just
What happened to Rapunzel after she was
because you’re a girl. Not being allowed to
freed from the tower? How did
vote for the things you believe in. This is the
Rumpelstiltskin end up striking that
world where Nell, May and Evelyn live. This
notorious deal? And what's the truth about
is England, 1914. Offering a historical
the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood? This book
snapshot of a society in turmoil, this is a
aims to answer all of those questions and
thought-provoking story of love, life and
more. Well researched and beautifully told in
hope, with themes of feminism and
a traditional style, this collection doesn't
equality, social class and divisions, and the massive impacts of the First World War.
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completely reinvent the stories we know and love – but it might make you see them a little bit differently.
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My Side of the Diamond, Sally Gardner
Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds When Shawn, the beloved big brother of
Jazmin has been shunned ever since her
15-year-old Will, is shot dead, Will is ready
best friend Becky disappeared. But she
to get revenge. After finding his brother’s
didn't just disappear - she jumped off a tall
gun, he gets in the lift from his home on
building and never reached the ground. It
the seventh floor–and so begins a surreal
was as if she simply vanished. Did Jazmin
journey of discovery, guided by the ghosts
have something to do with her
of other dead people in Will’s life. The
disappearance? Or was it more to do with
entire action of the book takes place on
Icarus, so beguiling and strangely ever
that journey down to the ground floor...
youthful, with whom Becky became FIC GAR
Written in verse, Long Way Down is
suddenly besotted . . . Includes intriguing black and white illustrations throughout.
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A Different Boy, Paul Jennings
The Land of Neverendings Kate Saunders
'If you've got a bad deal, ' his father used
What if there was a world powered by
to say, 'get out of it and move on.'
imagination? A world of silliness, where
When he finds himself in a cruel
humans and their toys live on long after
orphanage Anton does just that, and hides
they’ve left the Hard World… and what if
on an ocean liner. Fear and desperation
the door between their world and this
are his only companions. And this time
one was broken? Emily’s sister Holly has
there is no escape. Or is there? Two other
died, and nothing will ever be the same.
passengers have secrets of their own.
Emily also really misses Bluey, Emily’s toy
When nothing is what it seems, can they
bear. But one day, Emily starts having
help each other? Or will they sink into a FIC JEN
sea of troubles? You'll never know… until the last page.
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breathtakingly gripping and spectacular.
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dreams about Bluey and she realises that there is a place, powered by imagination, where the spirits of toys live!
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The Colour of the Sun, David Almond
Moonrise, Sarah Crossan
A boy has been killed, and Davie thinks he
Teenager Joe hasn’t seen his big brother for
might know who is responsible. He turns
ten years, since Ed’s on death row in a
away from the gossip and excitement and
Texan prison for a murder for which he’s
sets off roaming towards the sunlit summit
always claimed innocence. Now the date
at the top of the little Tyneside town, in
for Ed’s execution is set, Joe is determined
search of the killer. But as the day passes, it
to spend his last few weeks close by, ever
becomes ever more dramatic and strange.
hopeful that they will overturn the
Davie sees things on the hillside that show
execution. Written in verse, this is the first-
him that amongst immorality, there can be
person story of Joe in those last weeks,
kindness, and in darkness, there is a chance
when the brothers are able to get to know
of hope.
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series of prison visits.
The Weight of a Thousand Feathers,
Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki
Brian Conaghan
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Bobby has questions. How can I tell Bel I
The gods of the Vikings come to life as
want her as my girl friend, not my
never before in this illustrated anthology.
girlfriend? How much pain is Mum in
These dramatic, enthralling tales are based
today? Has she taken her pills? And
on the Scandinavian myth cycle and tell of
sometimes, secretly, why us? But it's
Odin with his one eye, Thor with his mighty
Mum's question for Bobby that could turn
hammer and Loki, the red-haired, shape-
everything on its head. It's the Big One. The Unthinkable One. If Bobby agrees, he won't FIC CON
each other properly for the first time in a
just be soothing her pain. He'll be helping to end it. Would he? Could he?
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shifting trickster. In this stunning book, the FIC CRO
strange world of ancient magic, giants, dwarfs and monsters is unforgettably imagined.
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