Carnegie Shortlist 2014

The Carnegie medal is a unique and long-standing book award awarded annually to outstanding and orignal young people's literature.  Several titles are nominated and a panel of librarians choose the overall winners of the award. However there is a large input by children around the country who read the books in their school library and vote for their own choices on the Carnegie shadowing website.  It is an important book award as it is often teenager's first experience of shadowing a shortlist of critically chosen literature.  A recent study by the Open University into the Carnegie Award found that it had many benefits for students particularly in relation to broadening student's minds.

This year at Highlands School we will be reading the shortlist with our Tuesday book club and encouraging Year 8's to attend.

This years shortlist is below.  You can read reviews and samples of the book by clicking here on the Highlands School Pinterest account.  Which ones would you like to read?

CILIP Carnegie Medal 2014 shortlist:

• All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry (Templar)
• The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks (Puffin)
• The Child's Elephant by Rachel Campbell-Johnston (David Fickling Books)
• Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper (Bodley Head)
• Blood Family by Anne Fine (Doubleday)
• Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell (Faber & Faber)
• Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead (Andersen Press)
• The Wall by William Sutcliffe (Bloomsbury)