Concorde Book Award facts for kids
The Concorde Book Award is an annual prize for children's literature awarded by South Gloucestershire secondary school students. It may be compared with the United Kingdom's Children's Book Award, a national children's literature prize awarded through voting by children.
A group of South Gloucestershire school and public librarians founded the Concorde Book Award in the 2007-2008 school year, with the first award ceremony being held in 2008. Each year, secondary school students in South Gloucestershire are invited to nominate a recently published book for the award longlist. A small panel of librarians selects six books from the longlist to form the Concorde Book Award shortlist, which is announced in early fall.
Once the shortlist is announced, students may join reading groups at their school or public library to read and discuss the novels on the shortlist, before casting their vote for a winner. Voting is held on World Book Day, which is celebrated in March in the United Kingdom, though other countries typically observe it in April.
List of winning and shortlisted books
| Year | Author | Title | Honor | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Onjali Raúf | The Boy at the Back of the Class | Winner | |
| Tracy Darnton | The Truth About Lies | Shortlisted | ||
| Sophie Green | Potkin and Stubbs | Shortlisted | ||
| Kate Saunders | The Land of Neverendings | Shortlisted | ||
| Gabriel Dylan | Whiteout | Shortlisted | ||
| Ali Sparkes | Thunderstruck | Shortlisted | ||
| 2019 | Karen M. McManus | One of Us is Lying | Winner | |
| Lisa Heathfield | Paper Butterflies | Winner | ||
| Helena Duggan | A Place Called Perfect | Shortlisted | ||
| R. J. Anderson | A Pocket Full of Murder | Shortlisted | ||
| Mitch Johnson | Kick | Shortlisted | ||
| Katherine Rundell | The Explorer | Shortlisted | ||
| 2018 | Sarwat Chadda writing as Joshua Khan | Shadow Magic | Winner | |
| Oli White | Generation Next | Shortlisted | ||
| Kathryn Evans | More of Me | Shortlisted | ||
| Sophie Cleverly | Scarlett and Ivy: The Lost Twin | Shortlisted | ||
| Zana Fraillon | The Bone Sparrow | Shortlisted | ||
| Ross Wellford | Time Travelling with a Hamster | Shortlisted | ||
| 2017 | Robin Talley | Lies We Tell Ourselves | Winner | |
| M G Leonard | Beetle Boy | Shortlisted | ||
| Ali Sparkes | Car-Jacked | Shortlisted | ||
| Chris Columbus | House of Secrets | Shortlisted | ||
| Robin Stevens | Murder Most Unladylike | Shortlisted | ||
| Andy Lane | Night Break (Young Sherlock Holmes #8) | Shortlisted | ||
| 2016 | Emma Pass | The Fearless | Winner | |
| Sarah Crossan | Apple and Rain | Shortlisted | ||
| Benjamin Zephaniah | Terror Kid | Shortlisted | ||
| Marcus Sedgwick | She is not Invisible | Shortlisted | ||
| Rob Lloyd Jones | Wild Boy | Shortlisted | ||
| Rob Stevens | Would the Real Stanley Carrot Please Stand Up? | Shortlisted | ||
| 2015 | Gillian Cross | After Tomorrow | Winner | |
| J.A. Buckle | Half My Facebook Friends are Ferrets | Shortlisted | ||
| Katherine Rundell | Rooftoppers | Shortlisted | ||
| David Levithan | Every Day (2012) | Shortlisted | ||
| Steve Feasey | Mutant City | Shortlisted | ||
| Holly Goldberg Sloan | Counting by 7s | Shortlisted | ||
| 2014 | Terri Terry | Slated | Winner | |
| Jon Mayhew | The Bonehill Curse | Shortlisted | ||
| David Walliams | Gangsta Granny | Shortlisted | ||
| Sally Gardner | Maggot Moon | Shortlisted | ||
| R.J. Palacio | Wonder | Shortlisted | ||
| Liz Pichon | Everything's Amazing (Sort Of) | Shortlisted | ||
| 2013 | Alexander Gordon-Smith | The Fury | Winner | |
| Gareth P. Jones | Space Crime Conspiracy | Shortlisted | ||
| Ally Kennen | Bullet Boys | Shortlisted | ||
| Panama Oxridge | Justin Thyme | Shortlisted | ||
| Jon Mayhew | Demon Collector | Shortlisted | ||
| Mark Robson | The Devil’s Triangle | Shortlisted | ||
| 2012 | Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games | Winner | |
| Terence Blacker | Missing, Believed Crazy | Shortlisted | ||
| Rachel Ward | Numbers | Shortlisted | ||
| Anthony Horowitz | Scorpia Rising | Shortlisted | ||
| Michelle Harrison | The Thirteen Treasures | Shortlisted | ||
| Andy Mulligan | Trash | Shortlisted | ||
| 2011 | R.J. Anderson | Knife | Winner | |
| Narinder Dhami | Bang, Bang, You're Dead! | Shortlisted | ||
| Ali Sparkes | Frozen in Time | Shortlisted | ||
| Keith Mansfield | Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London | Shortlisted | ||
| Suzanne LaFleur | Love, Aubrey | Shortlisted | ||
| Michael Morpurgo | Running Wild | Shortlisted | ||
| 2010 | Frank Cottrell Boyce | Cosmic | Winner | |
| Sophie McKenzie | Blood Ties | Shortlisted | ||
| Anne Cassidy | Forget Me Not | Shortlisted | ||
| Michelle Magorian | Just Henry | Shortlisted | ||
| Steve Voake | The Starlight Conspiracy | Shortlisted | ||
| 2009 | Sally Nicholls | Ways To Live Forever | Winner | |
| F.E. Higgins | The Black Book of Secrets | Shortlisted | ||
| Stuart Hill | Blade of Fire | Shortlisted | ||
| Jenny Valentine | Broken Soup | Shortlisted | ||
| Tim Bowler | Frozen Fire | Shortlisted | ||
| 2008 | Anthony Horowitz | Raven's Gate | Winner | |
| Michael Morpurgo | Alone on a Wide Wide Sea | Shortlisted | ||
| John Boyne | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Shortlisted | ||
| Steve Voake | The Dreamwalker's Child | Shortlisted | ||
| Louis Sachar | Small Steps | Shortlisted |
