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Wrath by Marcus Sedgwick (2022)

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Wrath by Marcus Sedgwick

Cassie Cotton has always been unusual, a bit different – but this only makes her more intriguing to her classmate Fitz. Cassie can hear a noise that most people don’t notice or recognise, and she believes it’s a sound that shows the Earth is in distress, damaged by human activity that is causing climate change. When this belief leads to her being ridiculed and bullied at school, Cassie disappears. Fitz is determined to find her, but he has no idea where to start looking, or if he’ll be in time to help her.

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevado (2019)

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With the fire on high by Elizabeth AcevadoEver since she got pregnant, 17-year-old Emoni’s life has been about making the tough decisions – doing what has to be done for her young daughter and her grandmother. Keeping her head down at school, trying not to get caught up with new boy Malachi. The one place she can let everything go is in the kitchen, where she has magical hands – whipping up extraordinary food beloved by everyone. Emoni wants to be a chef more than anything, but she knows it’s pointless to pursue the impossible. There are rules she has to play by. And yet, once she starts cooking, and gets that fire on high, she sees that her drive to feed will feed her soul and dreams too. And anything is possible.

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (2018)

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The poet X a novel by Elizabeth Acevado
Xiomara has always kept her words to herself. When it comes to standing her ground in her Harlem neighbourhood, she lets her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But X has secrets – her feelings for a boy in her bio class, and the notebook full of poems that she keeps under her bed. And a slam poetry club that will pull those secrets into the spotlight. Because in spite of a world that might not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to stay silent.

“A novel about first love and finding your voice.”

Teenage Fiction – Young Adult fiction, Poetry, Contemporary
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal (2019) and shortlisted for the Waterstones Older Fiction Prize (2019).

Also by Elizabeth Acevado:

With the Fire on High (2019)
Clap When You Land (2020)

Carnegie 2023 Shortlist Announced

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The 2023 Carnegie Shortlist:

  • The Light in Everything by Katya Balen
  • When Shadows Fall by Sita Brahmachari
  • Medusa by Jessie Burton
  • The Eternal Return of Clara Hart by Louise Finch
  • Needle by Patrice Lawrence
  • I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
  • The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros

For more details see: https://yotocarnegies.co.uk/2023-shortlists-announced/

Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2022

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  • October, October by Katya Balen
  • Guard Your Heart by Sue Divin
  • When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle
  • Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
  • The Crossing by Manjeet Mann
  • Tsunami Girl by Julian Sedgwick
  • Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle
  • Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

https://yotocarnegies.co.uk/shortlists-for-yoto-carnegie-greenaway-awards-2022-celebrate-the-power-of-friendship-and-pictures-to-create-empathy-connection-and-hope/

Winner of the 2021 Costa Children’s Book Award announced

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The Crossing by Manjeet Mann

The Crossing by Manjeet Mann (Penguin) has been announced as the winner of this year’s Costa Children’s Book Award.

Nat’s mum has just died and it’s tearing her apart. Sammy must escape Eritrea for the chance of a new life in Europe. A twist of fate brings these teenagers from opposite worlds together and gives them both hope. But is hope enough to mend a broken world? A profound story of the very real tragedies of the refugee crisis.

Manjeet Mann’s previous book, Run, Rebel, a verse novel, won the Carnegie Shadowers Choice Award in 2021 as well as the Diverse Book Award 2021.

Manjeet Mann’s website

 

Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2021

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  1. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
  2. The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson
  3. The Girl Who Became A Tree by Joseph Coelho
  4. On Midnight Beach by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
  5. Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann
  6. Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
  7. The Fountains Of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
  8. Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk

https://yotocarnegies.co.uk/cilip-carnegie-and-kate-greenaway-medals-2021-shortlists-announced/#:~:text=2021%20CILIP%20Carnegie%20Medal%20shortlist,Milner%20(Otter%2DBarry%20Books)

Waterstones Children’s Book Prize Winners 2019

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The Boy at the Back of the ClassThe winners of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019 have been announced, with the overall winner scooping a second prize within weeks.  The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf’s was the overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019.
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Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone was the category winner for older children’s fiction. Children of Blood and Bone
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Carnegie Shortlist 2019

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The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Rebound by Kwame Alexander
The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson
Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
Things A Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders

https://yotocarnegies.co.uk/shortlists-for-2019-cilip-carnegie-and-kate-greenaway-medals-announced/