The Bolton Children's Book Award is an annual award given to works of

children's literature Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

published in paperback during the previous year. The award is sponsored by Bolton Literacy Trust, The University of Bolton and Page Nation.

List of prize winners

Shortlists

*2011 **''My So Called Haunting'' by Tamsyn Murry **''The Gates'' by John Connolly **'' Sparks'' by

Ally Kennen Ally Kennen (born 1975) is a British author of adventure novels for children and teens. Some of her books have been marketed as thrillers and they may be classed as horror fiction. She was born in Somerset and grew up on a farm in the Exmoor r ...

**''Fightback'' by Steve Voake **''Crawlers'' by Sam Enthoven **''The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight'' by

Jenny Valentine Jenny Valentine (born 1970) is an English children's novelist. For her first novel and best-known work, ''Finding Violet Park'' (HarperCollins, 2007), she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged ...

*2010 **''Lifegame'' by Alison Allen-Gray **''Zelah Green, Queen of Clean'' by Vanessa Curtis **''Bang, Bang, You're Dead!'' by

Narinder Dhami Narinder Dhami (born 1958 in Wolverhampton) is a British children's author. Early life Dhami's father was an Indian immigrant from the Punjab who arrived in the UK in 1954, and her mother is English.Malcolm Rose **''Wolven'' by Di Toft *2009 **''A Beautiful Place for a Murder'' by Berlie Doherty **''Crash'' by JA Henderson **'' Ways to Live Forever'' by Sally Nicholls **''The Eye of the Serpent'' by Philip Caveney **''Zal and Zara and the Great Race of Azamed'' by

Kit Downes Kit Downes is a BBC Jazz Award winning, Mercury Music Award nominated, solo recording artist for ECM Records. He has toured the world playing piano, church organ and harmonium with his own bands ('ENEMY', 'Troyka', 'Elt' and 'Vyamanikal') a ...

**'' Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior'' by Chris Bradford **''Boy Thief'' by Zizou Corder *2008 **''

Titanic 2020 ''Titanic 2020'' is the first novel of the ''Titanic 2020'' series by Northern Irish author, Colin Bateman, published on 19 July 2007 through Hodder Children's Books. Plot The novel is based in the year 2020 and follows a stowaway named Jimmy ...

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Colin Bateman Colin Bateman (known mononymously as Bateman) is a novelist, screenwriter and former journalist from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Biography Born on 13 June 1962, Bateman attended Bangor Grammar School leaving at 16 when he was hired ...

**'' The Geek, The Greek and The Pimpernel'' by Will Gatti **'' The Cat Kin'' by Nick Green **'' The Black Book of Secrets'' by F.E. Higgins **'' Deeper than Blue'' by Jill Huckles **''

Skulduggery Pleasant ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' is a series of dark fantasy novels written by Irish author Derek Landy. The books revolve around the adventures of fledgling detective Valkyrie Cain, her mentor Skulduggery Pleasant, along with other friends and allie ...

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Derek Landy Derek Landy (born 23 October 1974) is an Irish author and screenwriter, best known for the ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' book series. Career Landy has written two screenplays that have been made into films, the IFTA award-winning '' Dead Bodies'' a ...

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Finding Violet Park ''Finding Violet Park'', or ''Me, the Missing, and the Dead'' in the U.S., is a young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, published by HarperCollins in 2007. It is about a fatherless teenage boy, Lucas Swain, who finds an urn containing the ashes of ...

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**'' Wild Magic'' by Cat Weatherill *2007 **'' Jerry and the Jannans'' by Elly Brewer **''

The Howling Tower ''The Howling Tower'' (also known as ''Arduin Dungeon Number Two'') was a standalone short story and gaming module written in 1979 by David A. Hargrave and published by Grimoire Games. It was based upon Hargrave's gaming system known as Arduin. It ...

'' by Michael Coleman **'' Beast'' by

**'' Nemesis'' by Catherine MacPhail **''

Girl, Missing ''Girl, Missing'' is an 2006 English-language young adult thriller novel by Sophie McKenzie. It won the 2007 Bolton Children's Book Award, the 2008 Manchester Book Award and the 2007 Red House Children's Book Award The Federation of Child ...

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Sophie McKenzie Sophie McKenzie is a British author of books for young adults. Many of her novels have won several awards, the most famous being '' Girl, Missing''. Others include '' Blood Ties'' and ''The Set Up''. McKenzie writes full-time and lives in Lond ...

**'' Kiss of Death'' by Malcolm Rose **'' Flash Flood'' by

Chris Ryan Colin Armstrong (born 1961), usually known by the pseudonym and pen-name of Chris Ryan, is an author, television presenter, security consultant and former Special Air Service sergeant. After the publication of fellow patrol member Andy McNa ...

**'' The Shapeshifter: Finding the Fox'' by Ali Sparkes *2006 **''

Invisible Friend Imaginary friends (also known as pretend friends, invisible friends or made-up friends) are a psychological and social phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than physical reality. ...

'' by Louise Arnold **'' Worm in the Blood'' by Thomas Bloor **''

Indigo Blue Indigo is a deep color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine, based on the ancient dye of the same name. The word "indigo" comes from the Latin word ''indicum'', m ...

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Cathy Cassidy Cathy Cassidy (born 13 June 1962) is an English author of young adult fiction. She was born in Coventry, Warwickshire. For a number of years she lived near New Galloway in Scotland where she started writing her novels, but has since returned to ...

**'' Jimmy Coates: Killer'' by Joe Craig **'' Sign of the Angel'' by Alan MacDonald **'' Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean'' by Justin Somper **''Stuff'' by Jeremy Strong *2005 **'' Millions'' by

Frank Cottrell Boyce Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 23 September 1959)"COTTRELL-BOYCE, Frank", ''Who's Who 2010'', A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009 ; online edn, Nov 200 Retrieved 2010-05-16. is an English people, English screenwriter, ...

**'' Horace'' by Chris d'Lacey **''

Underworld The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living. Chthonic is the technical adjective for things of the underwor ...

'' by Catherine MacPhail **'' The Lost'' by

Alex Shearer Alex Shearer (born 25 June 1949) is a British novelist and scriptwriter. He was born in Wick, in the north of Scotland. Alex Shearer sold his first TV script at the age of 29, after a varied career of some 30 odd jobs. He wrote for televisi ...

**'' Dizzy'' by

**''The Defender'' by Alan Gibbons **'' CHERUB: The Recruit'' by

Robert Muchamore Robert Muchamore (born 26 December 1971) is an English author, most notable for writing the ''CHERUB'' and ''Henderson's Boys'' novels. Early life Robert Muchamore was born in Tufnell Park, London, and is the youngest of four children. Muchamor ...

**'' Avril Crump'' by Angela Woolfe

References

External links

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Bolton Children's Book Award blogBolton Literacy Trust
British children's literary awards Awards established in 2005 2005 establishments in the United Kingdom