Annal:2003 Whitbread Book Award for Children's Book
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Results of the Whitbread Book Award in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Whitbread Book Award for Children's Book
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors.
- 2004 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 2003 Whitbread-Children's winner
- 2003 Carnegie shortlist
- 2003 Guardian Award shortlist
- Score: 32.54
Bobby Burns knows he’s a lucky lad. Growing up in sleepy Keely Bay, Bobby is exposed to all manner of wondrous things: stars reflecting off the icy sea, a friend that can heal injured fawns with her dreams, a man who can eat fire. But darkness seems to be approaching Bobby’s life from all sides...
The Oracle Betrayed: Book One of The Oracle Prophecies
- 2003 Stoker–Youth nominee
- 2003 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 12.53
They might not know what the future holds, but they know they hold it in their hands.
Mirany, the newly appointed attendant to the Speaker, is untested, in fear for her life, and keeper of the god’s secrets.
Seth, an ambitious scribe toiling in the shadow of the pyramid, has discovered the secret labyrinths and underground passages to the tombs.
Hermia, the Speaker, interprets the words of the god and twists his wishes to suit her treachery.
General Argelin, the cunning leader in league with the Speaker, intends to dictate the choosing of the…
- 2004 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 2003 Carnegie shortlist
- 2003 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- 2004 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 22.54
They’ve gone now, and I’m alone at last. I have the whole night ahead of me, and I won’t waste a single moment of it…I want tonight to be long, as long as my life…” For young Private Peaceful, looking back over his childhood while he is on night watch in the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside: his mother, Charlie, Big Joe, and Molly—the love of his life. Too young to be enlisted, Thomas has followed his brother to war and now, every moment he spends thinking about his life, means another moment closer to danger.
- 2003 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 6.53
Life isn’t going so well for 19-year-old Will. His mother is always nagging him about the lucky knit hat that he never takes off; his mother’s boyfriend has forbidden Will to play “Wild Thing”—the only song he knows—on the guitar; and he just got fired from his job at Burger King. But Will’s luck changes when he moves into a flat with Chrissy, James, and Rocko and gets a new job at the local park.
At the park Will meets Zara, a gypsy girl whose family is camping there illegally. Will has never been happier. Until his mother threatens to ruin everything by…
