Current Rendition
The longlist was announced 8 June 2012. The winner was announced 24 October 2012.
- Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Unforgotten Coat, photographs by Carl Hunter and Clare Heney (Walker), Age 9+
- Aidan Chambers, Dying to Know You (Bodley Head), Age 14+
- Roddy Doyle, A Greyhound of a Girl (Scholastic), Age 12+
- Jack Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt (Corgi), Age 12+
- Russell Hoban, Soonchild, illustrated by Alexis Deacon (Walker), Age 14+
- Eva Ibbotson, The Abominables (Scholastic), Age 8+
- Ally Kennen, Bullet Boys (Scholastic), Age 14+
- Dave Shelton, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat (David Fickling), Age 9+
This is Eva Ibbotson's second year on the shortlist after her death October 2010.
Dead End in Norvelt won the Newbery Medal as calendar year 2011's "most distinguished contribution to American children's literature".
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Andy Mulligan, Return to Ribblestrop (Simon & Schuster) won the 2011 prize, covering books published August 2010 to July 2011.(2011 winner)
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