Longlists and Shortlists
Since the award cycle was rescheduled to conclude late in the year, between 2000 and 2001, a "longlist" of seven to ten books has been announced near mid-year, recently in May. During that same period, a shortlist of four to six books has been announced a few months later.
Bold and hash (#) mark the winner, plus (+) marks the rest of the shortlist, and dash (–) marks the rest of the longlist.
2012 (8) (no shortlist)
- # Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Unforgotten Coat, photographs by Carl Hunter and Clare Heney (Walker) 9+
- – Aidan Chambers, Dying to Know You (Bodley Head) 14+
- – Roddy Doyle, A Greyhound of a Girl (Scholastic) 12+
- – Jack Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt (Corgi) 12+
- – Russell Hoban, Soonchild, illustrated by Alexis Deacon (Walker) 14+
- – Eva Ibbotson, The Abominables (Scholastic) 8+
- – Ally Kennen, Bullet Boys (Scholastic) 14+
- – Dave Shelton, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat (David Fickling) 9+
Gantos won the American Newbery Medal for the listed work.
2011 (8)
- # Andy Mulligan, Return to Ribblestrop (Simon & Schuster) 10+
- + David Almond, My Name is Mina (Hodder) 9+
- + Frances Hardinge, Twilight Robbery (Macmillan) 11+
- + Simon Mason, Moon Pie (David Fickling) 10+
- – Lissa Evans, Small Change for Stuart (Doubleday) 8+
- – Saci Lloyd, Momentum (Hodder) 12+
- – Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece (Orion) 10+
- – Andy Stanton, Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout, illustrated by David Tazzyman (Egmont) 7+
Mulligan made the Carnegie Medal shortlist for a different work, Trash. Almond, Evans, and Pitcher made that shortlist for their Guardian Prize contenders.
2010 (8)
- # Michelle Paver, Ghost Hunter (Orion) 10+
- + Morris Gleitzman, Now (Puffin) 9+
- + Gregory Hughes, Unhooking the Moon (Quercus) 11+
- + Eva Ibbotson, The Ogre of Oglefort (Macmillan) 8+
- – Theresa Breslin, Prisoner of the Inquisition (Doubleday) 12+
- – Ally Kennen, Sparks (Marion Lloyd Books) 9+
- – Linda Newbery, Lob, illustrated by Pam Smy (David Fickling) 8+
- – Marcus Sedgwick, White Crow (Orion) 13+
Paver won for concluding a six-volume series. According to JE, "It's relatively rare for a book late in a series to win a major prize, but the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness is such a towering achievement, as a whole as well as in terms of the individual books, that it was our unanimous choice." But Philip Reeve won in 2006 for concluding a four-volume series. On the shortlist, Gleitzman's Now was the third of a trilogy.
Brennan and Sedwick made the Carnegie Medal shortlist for the listed works.
2009 (8)
- # Mal Peet, Exposure (Walker)
- + Siobhan Dowd, Solace of the Road (David Fickling)
- + Morris Gleitzman, Then (Puffin)
- + Terry Pratchett, Nation (Doubleday)
- – Bernard Beckett, Genesis (Quercus)
- – Sally Gardner, The Silver Blade (Orion)
- – Julie Hearn, Rowan the Strange (Oxford)
- – Marcus Sedgwick, Revolver (Orion)
Hearn, Pratchett, and Sedwick made the Carnegie Medal shortlist for the listed works.
2008 (7)
- # Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go (Walker) 13+
- + Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cosmic (Macmillan) 9+
- + Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child (David Fickling) 13+
- + Jenny Downham, Before I Die (Definitions) 13+
- – Tanya Landman, The Goldsmith's Daughter (Walker) 11+
- – Rhiannon Lassiter, Bad Blood (Oxford, £5.99)) 12+
- – Anthony McGowan, The Knife That Killed Me (Definitions) 14+
Siobhan Dowd won the Carnegie Medal for the listed work; Cottrell Boyce and Ness made the shortlist.
2007 (8)
- # Jenny Valentine, Finding Violet Park (HarperCollins) 12+
- + Mary Hoffman, The Falconer's Knot (Bloomsbury) 11+
- + Sally Prue, The Truth Sayer (Oxford) 10+
- + Andy Stanton, Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire (Egmont) 7+
- – Allan Ahlberg, The Boyhood of Burglar Bill (Puffin) 8+
- – Charlie Fletcher, Stoneheart (Hodder) 10+
- – Tim Lott, Fearless (Walker) 12+
- – Mal Peet, The Penalty (Walker) 12+
Valentine made the Carnegie Medal shortlist for the Prize-winning book.
2006 (8)
- # Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain (Scholastic) 11+
- + Patrick Cave, Blown Away (Simon & Schuster) 13+
- + Frank Cottrell Boyce, Framed (Macmillan) 11+
- + Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night (Macmillan) 11+
- – David Almond, Clay (Hodder) 12+
- – Siobhan Dowd, A Swift Pure Cry (Doubleday) 12+
- – Jill Murphy, The Worst Witch Saves the Day (Penguin) 8–11
- – Tim Wynne-Jones, The Survival Game (Usborne Publishing) 10+
Reeve won for concluding a four-volume series. Almond and Cottrell Boyce made the Carnegie Medal shortlist for the listed works.
2005 (8)
- # Kate Thompson, The New Policeman (Bodley Head, Doubleday) 11+
- + Julie Hearn, The Merrybegot (Oxford) 10+ —a tale of folk religion in the 17th century
- + Alex Shearer, The Hunted (Macmillan) 11+
- + Tim Wynne-Jones, The Boy in the Burning House (Groundwood Books, 2000; Usborne) 10+
- – Kevin Brooks, Candy (Chicken House) 13+
- – Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother (Orion) 9+
- – Philippa Pearce, The Little Gentleman (Puffin) 9+
- – Christopher Russell, Brind and the Dogs of War (Puffin) 10+
Paver's book was the first in a series of six, the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness (2004 to 2009). She won the 2010 Prize for the concluding volume, Ghost Hunter.
2004 (8)
- # Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now (Puffin) 14+
- + Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions (Macmillan) 9+
- + Ann Turnbull, No Shame, No Fear (Walker) 10+
- + Leslie Wilson, Last Train from Kummersdorf (Faber) 11+
- – Kevin Brooks, Kissing the Rain (Chicken House) 13+
- – Patricia Elliott, Murkmere (Hodder) 10+
- – Jan Mark, Useful Idiots (David Fickling) 13+
- – Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful (Collins) 10+
Cottrell Boyce won the Carnegie Medal for the listed work; Morpurgo made the shortlist.
2003 (8)
- # Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Jonathan Cape, David Fickling) 12+
- + David Almond, The Fire Eaters (Hodder) 10+
- + Kevin Brooks, Lucas (Chicken House) 12+
- + Alex Shearer, The Speed of the Dark (Macmillan) 11+
- – Keith Gray, Malarkey (Red Fox) 13+
- – Simon French, Where in the World (Little Hare) 9+
- – Marcus Sedgwick, The Book of Dead Days (Orion) 10+
- – Jean Ure, Bad Alice (Hodder & Stoughton) 10+
The Curious Incident won two Whitbread Awards: Novel (not children's book) and overall "Book of the Year". Haddon and Almond made the Carnegie Medal shortlist for the listed works.
2002 (9)
- # Sonya Hartnett, Thursday's Child (Penguin Australia, 2000; Walker) 12+
- + Keith Gray, Warehouse (Red Fox) 13+
- + Elizabeth Laird, Jake's Tower (Heinemann, MacMillan) 11+
- + Linda Newbery, The Shell House (David Fickling) 12+
- + Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (Doubleday, Transworld) 11+ —the 28th Discworld book, the first for children
- + Marcus Sedgwick, The Dark Horse (Orion) 12+
- – Bernard Ashley, Revenge House (Orchard)
- – Julie Bertagna, Exodus (Macmillan)
- – Susan Cooper, Green Boy (Bodley Head)
Pratchett won the Carnegie Medal for the listed work; Laird and Sedgwick made the shortlist.
2001 (10)
- # Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone (Orion) 9+
- + Allan Ahlberg, My Brother's Ghost (Puffin) 9+
- + Celia Rees, Witch Child (Bloomsbury) 11+
- + Karen Wallace, Raspberries on the Yangtze (Simon & Schuster) 11+
- – Adèle Geras, Troy (Fickling/Scholastic) 11+
- – Gaye Hiçyilmaz, Girl in Red (Orion) 11+
- – Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan) 10+
- – Margaret Mahy, 24 Hours (Collins)
- – Jan Mark, Heathrow Nights (Hodder) 12+
- – Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth (Puffin)
Naidoo won the Carnegie Medal for the listed work; Geras was a highly commended runner up.
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