The shortlist of six books is announced and the winner will receive a cheque for £2,500, which will be presented at the awards ceremony in London on 1 November.
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Unhooking the Moon
by Gregory Hughes
Meet the Rat: A dancing, football-playing gangster-baiting ten-year old. When she foresaw her father’s death, she picked up her football and decided to head for New York.
Meet her older brother Bob: Protector of the Rat, but more often her follower, he is determined to find their uncle in America and discover a new life for them both.
On their adventures across the flatlands of Winnipeg and through the exciting streets of New York, Bob and the Rat make friends with an hilarious con man and a famous rap star, and escape numerous dangers. But is the Uncle they are searching for really a drug dealer? And will they ever find him?
A funny, warm, unique world with the most magical, entertaining girl character to ever dance through the pages of a book.
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The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book tells the story of Nobody ‘Bod’ Owens, a child abandoned in a graveyard after the vicious murder of his parents and sister by The Man Jack. Raised and educated by the ghosts that live there, Bod encounters terrible and unexpected menaces in the horror of the pit of the Sleer and the city of Ghouls. It is in the land of the living that the real danger lies as The Man Jack is determined to find Bod and finish him off.
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