Winners 2009

by Steve Smallman & Joelle Dreidemy

Peter is different - he only ever eats peas.  And they make him rather smelly! Then one day he turns completely green.  His school mates laugh at him but he is spotted by some aliens from outer space, who think he looks wonderful! So they whisk him away to make him their king...

by Steve Smallman & Joelle Dreidemy

 

Peter is different - he only ever eats peas. And they make him rather smelly! Then one day he turns completely green. His school mates laugh at him but he is spotted by some aliens from outer space, who think he looks wonderful! So they whisk him away to make him their king...

 

by Ceci Jenkinson

 

Oli wants to swap his Mum for someone who’ll let him eats loads of pepperoni pizza and watch Real Blood Bath Murders on telly. Mother 44 drives a tank and trains secret agents. But she’s also hatching an evil antichildren plot – and she’s looking for a boy to help. When the Mum Shop’s Matcher puts them together, it’s trouble!

 

by Siobhan Dowd

 

Digging for peat in the mountain with his uncle, Fergus finds something that makes his heart stop. Curled up deep in the bog is the body of a child. And it looks like she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his mam and da arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck – a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.

by Allan Ahlberg & Bruce Ingman

 

 

by Michael Morpurgo & Michael Foreman

 

Kasper the cat first came to The Savoy Hotel in a basket - Johnny Trott knows, because he was the bellboy who carried him in, he carried all of Countess Kadinksy’s things to her room. Little did he know that he would end up with Kasper on his hands forever, nor did he expect life changing adventures with the only cat to survive the sinking of the Titanic….A heart-warming, feel-good story!

 

by Daniel Waters

 

All over the country, teenagers who die aren’t staying dead. They are coming back to life, but they come back different - they stutter and their reactions to everything are slower.

Against her better judgement, Phoebe finds herself drawn to Tommy Williams.

He’s gorgeous, funny, on the football team - and dead. But not everyone is as accepting as Phoebe. There are those who would like to rid the community of this sinister phenomenon, and they’ll stop at nothing to achieve it…..

by Helen Stephens

 

by Chris Riddell

 

Ottoline Brown and her best friend, Mr Munroe, are starting school…the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted. She is rather worried that she doesn’t have a special gift. Mr Munroe is worried about the ghost who is said to haunt the school halls at night. Does Ottoline discover how to be different and can they expose the Spook?

 

by Anthony McGowan

 

Paul Vardeman could be at any normal school - bullies, girls and annoying teachers are just a part of life. Unfortunately ‘normal’ doesn’t apply when it comes to Roth, the school’s most evil bully. When Paul ends up delivering a message from Roth to the leader of a gang at a near by school, it fuels a rivalry with immediate consequences. Paul attempts to distance himself from the feud, but when Roth hands him a knife it both empowers him and scares him at the same time……

 

by Pete Johnson

 

by Michele Paver (from the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series)