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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.

Prize: £500 and an engraved decanter

Winner announced: June

Most Recent Winner (2006)

Anthony Horowitz , Ravens Gate

Past Winners

2005 Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkind

2004 Chris Wooding, Poison

2003 Julie Bertagne, Exodus

2002 Malorie Blackman Noughts & Crosses (Doubleday)

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

2000 Tim Bowler Shadows (Oxford University Press)

1999 Nigel Hinton Out of the Darkness (Puffin Books)

1998 Elizabeth Laird Jay (Mammoth)

1997 Elizabeth Hawkins Sea of Peril (Orchard Books)

1996 Frances Mary Hendry Chandra (Oxford University Press)

1995 Garry Kilworth The Electric Kid (Transworld)

1994 Ian Strachan The Boy in the Bubble (Methuen)

1993 (joint winners) Brian Jacques Salamandastron (Hutchinson) and Robert Westall Gulf (Methuen)

1992 Robin Jarvis The Whitby Witches (Simon & Schuster)

1991 Brian Jacques Mattimeo (Hutchinson)

1990 Jean Ure Plague 99 (Methuen)

1989 Anthony Horowitz Groosham Grange (Methuen)

1988 Brian Jacques Redwall (Hutchinson)

1987 Philip Pullman The Ruby in the Smoke (Puffin)