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The winner in each category receives £5,000. One of these five books is selected as the overall winner of the Book of the Year and receives a further £25,000, making a total prize fund of £50,000.   It is the only prize which places children's books alongside adult books in this way.  

2010

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Flyaway
by Lucy Christoper


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Bartimaeus
Ring of Solomon

by Johnathan Stroud

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Out of Shadows
by Jason Wallace


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Annexed
by Sharon Dogar

 

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The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness book jacket
The Ask and the Answer
by Patrick Ness

"...We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men..."

The Ask and the Answer is a tense, shocking and deeply moving novel of resistance under the most extreme pressure. This is the second book in the Chaos Walking trilogy.

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Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd book jacket

Solace of the Road
by Siobhan Dowd

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Troubadour by Mary Hoffman book jacket

Troubadour
by Mary Hoffman

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Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera book jacket

Guantanamo Boy
by Anna Perera

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