Congratulations to Teri Terry winner of this year’s Northeast Teenage Book Award!
Thanks to all our authors for braving the snow and severe weather warnings to make it to the party.
Thanks to all the judging schools this year for making it such a great event.
Unfortunately, some of our schools were unable to make it on the night because of the snow. If you have any photos, videos or sound clips of the party please share them in the comments below so everyone can experience the excitement of the event.
When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. They’ll get the truth out of her. But it won’t be what they expect.
As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from a merciless and ruthless enemy?
Other books by the author:
The Winter Prince
A Coalition of Lions
The Sunbird
The Lion Hunter
The Empty Kingdom
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
The Double Shadow by Sally Gardner
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Once/Now/Then/After by Morris Gleitzman
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Kyla’s memory has been erased,
her personality wiped blank,
her memories lost for ever.
She’s been Slated.
The government claims she was a terrorist,
and that they are giving her a second chance -
as long as she plays by their rules.
But echoes of the past whisper in Kyla’s mind.
Someone is lying to her, and nothing is as it seems.
Who can she trust in her search for the truth?
Billy is a street urchin, pickpocket and petty thief. Mister Creecher is a monstrous giant of a man who terrifies all he meets. Their relationship begins as pure convenience. But a bond swiftly develops between these two misfits as their bloody journey takes them ever northwards on the trail of their target… Victor Frankenstein.
Oliver Twisted by J D Sharpe
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
Wish Me Dead by Helen Grant
The Hunting Ground by Cliff McNish
Fifteen-year-old Laurence Roach just wants a normal life, but it’s not easy when your mum is a depressed alcoholic, and your six-year-old brother thinks he’s a dog. When Mum fails to come home one night, Laurence tells nobody, terrified he and his brother will be taken into care if anyone finds out. Instead, he attempts to keep up the pretence that Mum is still around: dressing up in her clothes to trick the neighbours and spinning an increasingly complicated tangle of lies. After two weeks on their own, running out of food and money, and with suspicious adults closing in, Laurence finally discovers what happened to his mother. And that’s when the trouble really starts . . .
Being Billy by Phil Earle
The Memory Cage by Ruth Eastham
Mockingbird by Katherine Erskine
Wonder by R J Palacio
Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman
Life, Interrupted by Damian Kelleher
Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman
Pretty Bad Things by C J Skuse
Trash by Andy Mulligan
Someone Else’s Life by Katie Dale
Jasmine Skies by Sita Brahmachari
This is Not Forgiveness by Celia Rees
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Killing Honour by Bali Rai
Hephzibah You’ve no idea what it’s like having a freak for a sister. Rebecca Born first, prettier, Hephzi’s always been the more popular one. The Father When he was busy with his bottle we were usually safe. Usually. The Mother Her specialist subject was misery and lessons of painful silence…
Hephzibah and Rebecca are twins.
One beautiful, one disfigured.
Trapped with their loveless parents, they dream of a normal life. But when one twin tragically dies, the other must find a way to escape. Because if she doesn’t, she’ll end up like her sister.
The Things We Did for Love by Natasha Farrant
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Saving June by Hannah Harrington
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
