Kingston Youth Book Award

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After much consideration and thoughtful voting by our Youth Book Groups and library users we can proudly announce that the winner of the third Kingston Youth Book Award is The Recruit by Robert Muchamore.

This is the first book in his hugely popular Cherub series which follows a school of spy kids on their dangerous missions around the world.  

For more information about Cherub & Robert Muchamore log onto the cherubcampus website.

However, another book from the shortlist was also highly commended, with only one less vote than the Recruit. This was Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin.  This is a fantastic book which also deserves it’s place on the shortlist.

The Cherub series, Elsewhere and the other titles from this year’s shortlist are all available from branches of Kingston Libraries.

The other four books on the shortlist were ranked as follows:

3^rd: Missing Judy by Anne Cassidy

4th: The Remarkable life and Times of Eliza Rose by Mary Hooper

5^th: The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks

6^th: Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson

For more information contact Kate Priestley by phone on 020 8547 6464 or by email at kate.priestley@rbk.kingston.gov.uk.

If you are aged between 11-16 and would like to be on the voting panel for the 2008 shortlist please come along to one of our Youth Book Groups.