MYTH & IMAGINATION DOMINATE TEENAGE FICTION PRIZE
Slavery and the occult feature in Mal Peet's Brazilian-based The Penalty.
Mal Peet, Philip Reeve and Meg Rosoff head a shortlist for the 2007 Booktrust teenage fiction award, announced earlier today, which demonstrates the strength of contemporary youth fiction.
Mal Peet, Philip Reeve and Meg Rosoff head a shortlist for the 2007 Booktrust teenage fiction award, announced earlier today, which demonstrates the strength of contemporary youth fiction.
They are joined on the shortlist for the £2,500 prize by Theresa Breslin, Kate Cann and Marcus Sedgwick.
The chair of judges, librarian Angela Wilkinson, saluted the "wide range of excellent contemporary teenage fiction available today".
The chair of judges, librarian Angela Wilkinson, saluted the "wide range of excellent contemporary teenage fiction available today".
The full story is in today's Guardian Unlimited from where the pic of Mal Peet has also come.
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