Children's Book Prize Archive

Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award

Annual

Administered by
Lancashire County Council
Lancashire County Library Headquarters
PO Box 61
County Hall
Preston PR1 8RJ
tel: 01772 264008

contact: Jean Wolstenholme
tel: 01772 264 040
fax: 01772 264 043
email: library@lcl.lancscc.gov.uk

Sponsored by
University of Central Lancashire

Awarded to the best work of fiction for 12 to 14 year-olds, written by a UK author and first published between 1 September and 31 August of the previous year. The winner is chosen by secondary-school pupils. Publishers may submit books for consideration.

See website for further information

Prize: £500 and an engraved decanter

Winner announced: June

Most Recent Winner

2010Bang, Bang, You're Dead, Narinder Dhami

Previous Winners

2009Blood Ties, Sophie McKenzie

2008Fearless, Tim Lott

2007Divine Madness, Robert Muchamore

2006Ravens Gate, Anthony Horowitz

2005The Amulet of Samarkind, Jonathan Stroud

2004Poison, Chris Wooding

2003Exodus, Julie Bertagna

2002Noughts & Crosses, Malorie Blackman (Doubleday)

2001Joint Winners:
Bloodtide, Melvin Burgess (Puffin) and
Plague, Malcolm Rose (Scholatsic Point)

2000Shadows, Tim Bowler (Oxford University Press)

1999Out of the Darkness, Nigel Hinton (Puffin Books)

1998Jay, Elizabeth Laird (Mammoth)

1997Sea of Peril, Elizabeth Hawkins (Orchard Books)

1996Chandra, Frances Mary Hendry (Oxford University Press)

1995The Electric Kid, Garry Kilworth (Transworld)

1994The Boy in the Bubble, Ian Strachan (Methuen)

1993Joint Winners:
Salamandastron, Brian Jacques (Hutchinson) and
Gulf, Robert Westall (Methuen)

1992The Whitby Witches, Robin Jarvis (Simon & Schuster)

1991Mattimeo, Brian Jacques (Hutchinson)

1990Plague 99, Jean Ure (Methuen)

1989Groosham Grange, Anthony Horowitz (Methuen)

1988Redwall, Brian Jacques (Hutchinson)

1987The Ruby in the Smoke, Philip Pullman (Puffin)

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