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Christchurch City Libraries website has links to Literary Prizes and Awards
http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/childrens-literary-prizes-and-awards/

2002 Sheffield Children's Book Award; 2003 Wirral Children's Book of the Year Award; 2004 Fantastic Fiction Award || Boeke Prize, 1997 ||
 * **TITLE ** || **AUTHOR ** || **AWARD ** ||
 * I know why the caged bird sings || Maya Angelou || nominated for a National Book Award, 1970 ||
 * To kill a mockingbird || Harper Lee || Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1961. ||
 * Dogside story || Patricia Grace || Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for fiction, 2001; Longlisted for the Booker Prize, 2001; Shortlisted in the Montana NZ Book Awards, 2002 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The color purple || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alice Walker || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pulizter Prize for fiction, 1983; National Book Award, 1983 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pounamu, pounamu || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Witi Ihimaera || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, 1973, 3rd ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oracle and miracles || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stevan Eldrid-Grigg || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, 1988, 2nd place ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Smith’s dream || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">C.K. Stead || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award, 1972, 3rd. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Empire of the sun || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">J.G. Ballard || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1984 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am not Esther || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fleur Beale || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NZ Post Children’s Book Award, 1999, Honours ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Noughts and crosses || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Malorie Blackman || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2002 Children's Book Award; 2002 Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award ;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oracle and miracles || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stevan Eldrid-Grigg || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, 1988, 2nd place ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Smith’s dream || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">C.K. Stead || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award, 1972, 3rd. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Empire of the sun || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">J.G. Ballard || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1984 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am not Esther || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fleur Beale || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NZ Post Children’s Book Award, 1999, Honours ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Noughts and crosses || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Malorie Blackman || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2002 Children's Book Award; 2002 Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award ;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am not Esther || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fleur Beale || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NZ Post Children’s Book Award, 1999, Honours ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Noughts and crosses || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Malorie Blackman || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2002 Children's Book Award; 2002 Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award ;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Noughts and crosses || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Malorie Blackman || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2002 Children's Book Award; 2002 Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award ;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Noughts and crosses || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Malorie Blackman || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2002 Children's Book Award; 2002 Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award ;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Angela’s ashes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Frank McCourt || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pulitzer Prize for biography, 1997
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Angela’s ashes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Frank McCourt || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pulitzer Prize for biography, 1997
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mr Pip || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lloyd Jones || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, 2007; Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2007, Best Book; Montana NZ Book Awards, Fiction, 2007 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Life of Pi || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yann Martel || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Booker Prize for Fiction, 2002 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bulibasha || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Witi Ihimaera || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Montana Book Awards, 1995, 1st ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The book thief || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marcus Zusak || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2007 Boeke Prize ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The road || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cormac McCarthy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pulitzer Prize, 2007 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once were warriors || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alan Duff || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, 1991: 2nd ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To the is-land || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Janet Frame || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, 1983: 1st ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Junk || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Melvin Burgess || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award 1997 ; The Carnegie Medal 1997 ; The Guardian Fiction Prize 1997 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walk in my shoes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alwyn Evans || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shortlisted, Qld Premier's Literary Award, 2005 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ender’s game || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Orson Scott Card || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1985 Nebula Award for best novel; 1986 Hugo Award for best novel ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Closed, stranger || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kate de Goldi || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2000 NZ Post Children's Book Awards, Young Adult section, Honour Award. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The bean trees || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barbara Kingsolver || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Library Association Award, 1988 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blindsight || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maurice Gee || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2005, Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry, the Fiction category and joint winner of the Readers' Choice Award Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2006 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To the is-land || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Janet Frame || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, 1983: 1st ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Junk || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Melvin Burgess || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award 1997 ; The Carnegie Medal 1997 ; The Guardian Fiction Prize 1997 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walk in my shoes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alwyn Evans || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shortlisted, Qld Premier's Literary Award, 2005 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ender’s game || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Orson Scott Card || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1985 Nebula Award for best novel; 1986 Hugo Award for best novel ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Closed, stranger || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kate de Goldi || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2000 NZ Post Children's Book Awards, Young Adult section, Honour Award. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The bean trees || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barbara Kingsolver || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Library Association Award, 1988 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blindsight || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maurice Gee || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2005, Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry, the Fiction category and joint winner of the Readers' Choice Award Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2006 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Closed, stranger || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kate de Goldi || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2000 NZ Post Children's Book Awards, Young Adult section, Honour Award. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The bean trees || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barbara Kingsolver || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Library Association Award, 1988 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blindsight || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maurice Gee || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2005, Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry, the Fiction category and joint winner of the Readers' Choice Award Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2006 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The bean trees || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barbara Kingsolver || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Library Association Award, 1988 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blindsight || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maurice Gee || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2005, Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry, the Fiction category and joint winner of the Readers' Choice Award Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2006 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blindsight || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maurice Gee || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2005, Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry, the Fiction category and joint winner of the Readers' Choice Award Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2006 ||