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Christchurch City Libraries website has links to Literary Prizes and Awards
@http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Kids/LiteraryPrizes/

Winner of the 2002 Sankei Children's Publishing Culture Award. || 2004 Whibread Children's Book Award (shortlist); 2005 Michael L. Printz Award (US); 2005 Orange First Novel Prize (shortlist) ||
 * **TITLE** || **AUTHOR** || **AWARD** ||
 * //Violence 101 // || //Denis Wright // || NZ Post Book Awards, Best first book, 2009 ||
 * //Reaching the summit // || Alexa Johnston & David Larsen || NZ Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults, 2008: Non-fiction honour award ||
 * //Hana’s suitcase : a true story // || Karen Levine || 2002 Sydney Taylor Book Award; 2003 Children's Book of the Year, Canadian Library Association; 2004 IRA Children's Book Award Notable - Intermediate Nonfiction; 2004 Notable Children's Book ||
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Kit’s wilderness // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">David Almond || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">2001 - Michael L. Printz Award Winner; 2001 - ALA Notable Children's Book; 2001 - ALA Best Books for Young Adults ||
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Water in the blood // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Alan Bunn // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Shortlisted in the AIM Children's Book Awards, Fiction, 1991 ||
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">The heaven shop // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Deborah Ellis // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Ontario Library Assoc., Golden Oak Award winner, 2006; Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards, Honors, 2005. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The outsiders || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">S.E. Hinton || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">New York Herald Tribune Best Teenage Books List, 1967; ALA Best Young Adult Books, 1975 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The whale rider || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Witi Ihimaera || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">1987, National Book Data New Zealand Booksellers’ Choice Award ||
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">A little piece of ground // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Elizabeth Laird // || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Middle East Outreach Council Youth Literature Award, 2006, and the U.S. Board on Books for Young People’s Outstanding International Book Award, 2007 ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Leaving One-Foot Island // || //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Graeme Lay // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Finalist, 1999 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards ||
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Secrets in the fire // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Henning Mankell // || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Winner 2004: IRA (International Reading Association) Notable Books for Global Society award.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The outsiders || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">S.E. Hinton || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">New York Herald Tribune Best Teenage Books List, 1967; ALA Best Young Adult Books, 1975 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The whale rider || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Witi Ihimaera || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">1987, National Book Data New Zealand Booksellers’ Choice Award ||
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">A little piece of ground // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Elizabeth Laird // || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Middle East Outreach Council Youth Literature Award, 2006, and the U.S. Board on Books for Young People’s Outstanding International Book Award, 2007 ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Leaving One-Foot Island // || //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Graeme Lay // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Finalist, 1999 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards ||
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Secrets in the fire // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Henning Mankell // || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Winner 2004: IRA (International Reading Association) Notable Books for Global Society award.
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">A little piece of ground // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Elizabeth Laird // || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Middle East Outreach Council Youth Literature Award, 2006, and the U.S. Board on Books for Young People’s Outstanding International Book Award, 2007 ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Leaving One-Foot Island // || //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Graeme Lay // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Finalist, 1999 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards ||
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Secrets in the fire // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Henning Mankell // || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Winner 2004: IRA (International Reading Association) Notable Books for Global Society award.
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Secrets in the fire // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Henning Mankell // || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Winner 2004: IRA (International Reading Association) Notable Books for Global Society award.
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Secrets in the fire // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Henning Mankell // || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Winner 2004: IRA (International Reading Association) Notable Books for Global Society award.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Sold // || //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Patricia McCormick // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">National Book Award finalist, 2007 ||
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Sleepwalking // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Nicola Morgan // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">2005 Scottish Arts Council Children's Book of the Year Award; 2005 South Lanarkshire Book Award (shortlist) ; 2005 Stockport Schools' Book Award (shortlist) ||
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Owl // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Joanna Orwin // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">NZ Post Children’s Book Awards, 2002, winner Senior Fiction. ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">How I live now // || //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Meg Rosoff // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2004, winner; 2004
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Owl // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Joanna Orwin // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">NZ Post Children’s Book Awards, 2002, winner Senior Fiction. ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">How I live now // || //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Meg Rosoff // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2004, winner; 2004
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">How I live now // || //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Meg Rosoff // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2004, winner; 2004
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">How I live now // || //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Meg Rosoff // || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2004, winner; 2004
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Smash! : a racist attack : and friends become enemies // || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-style: normal;">Robert Swindells // || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Shortlisted for the Sheffield Children’s Book Award 1998 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Gangsta rap || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Benjamin Zephaniah || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">2006, Manchester Book Award (shortlist) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Fighting Ruben Wolfe || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Markus Zusak || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">ALA Best Book for Young Adults ; Winner of the CCBE Straw Poll for the Printz Award ; Honor Book, Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers ; New South Wales Premier’s Award ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">What I saw and how I lied || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Judy Blundell || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">National Book Award winner, 2008. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Fighting Ruben Wolfe || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Markus Zusak || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">ALA Best Book for Young Adults ; Winner of the CCBE Straw Poll for the Printz Award ; Honor Book, Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers ; New South Wales Premier’s Award ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">What I saw and how I lied || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Judy Blundell || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">National Book Award winner, 2008. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">What I saw and how I lied || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Judy Blundell || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">National Book Award winner, 2008. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">What I saw and how I lied || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Judy Blundell || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">National Book Award winner, 2008. ||