Booktrust Teenage Prize
The Booktrust Teenage Prize does what it says on the tin - it celebrates the best in literature for teenagers with an annual award.
Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008
The Booktrust Teenage Prize is a flexible, ready made reading promotion. You can use it to broaden and make visible your work with young people, teenage reading groups and young people focused events. The Reading Agency will supply lots of reader development ideas and support so you can make the most of the initiative.
Libraries can promote the shortlist from September 2008 through to November (the shortlist is announced the week commencing 8 September and the winner announcement on Tuesday 18 November).
The shortlist for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008 is:
- The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
- Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
- Apache by Tanya Landman
- The Knife that Killed Me by Anthony McGowan
- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
- Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson
Teenage Judges competition 2008
Young people between the ages of 11 and 16 can win the opportunity to decide on this year's best book for young people and to attend the glamorous awards ceremony in London in November. Entrants are asked to write a short story in no more than 500 words on the theme of 'My Great Escape'. This links into June's National Year of Reading theme of 'Reading Escapes'. The four best short stories will win their authors a place on the judging panel for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008.
The competition is now closed and the winners will be announced on the 16 September.
For more information about the Booktrust Teenage Prize go to Bookheads, their dedicated website for teenagers.