Aspiring book reviewers are being invited to produce a shortlist for the YoungMinds Book Award 2010. The UK charity, which promotes children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, has selected its longlist of twelve books for the prestigious award, and is calling on young people across the country to help whittle the list down to just six.
The award is given each year to a book for readers aged twelve plus which helps young people to cope with the challenges of growing up. All people under the age of 25 are invited to submit their views on the plot, characters and “unputdownability” of the twelve books. Their top six will go on to form the award shortlist, from which a panel of expert judges, including three young people, will choose the winning book.
The books selected for the long list are: Dear Dylan by Siobhan Curham, Desperate Measures by Laura Summers, Ember Fury by Cathy Brett, Ice Lolly by Jean Ure, Inside by J A Jarman, Lottie Bugs is not Desperate by Hayley Long, No Way To Go by Bernard Ashley, Running on the Cracks by Julia Donaldson, Them and Us by Bali Rai, The Truth About Leo by David Yelland, When I was Joe by Kerren David and Zellah Green by Vanessa Curtis.
For more information on how to get involved, visit:
www.youngminds.org.uk/about-ym
