May 7, 2009

Reissue of Borderland

Filed under: news,Rights of Passage — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 4:53 pm

Borderland

Borderland

Borderland has been reissued by OUP with a new jacket.

If you missed it the first time around, now’s your chance. Two of the sequels, Shadowland and Outland will also be reissued later in the year.

Making friends doesn’t come easily to newcomer Zoë. She’s always been the outsider, watching the ‘in’ crowd from afar and longing to be part of it. So when beautiful, popular Laura Harrell notices her, Zoë is desperate to impress. Soon Laura lets Zoë into a secret. In the woods behind her house there is a hidden doorway to another world; a world Laura and her brother Alex treat as their playground. But Zoë quickly realizes that what’s going on in the city of Shattershard is no game. War is about to break out-and it appears that Alex is supplying weaponry from their own world. After a chilling warning to away from Laura, Zoë is forced to question Laura’s true reasons for bringing her to Shattershard. Caught between the opposing sides, Zoë no longer knows where her loyalties lie or who to trust. As her old life slips further away, she is starting to see that getting into Shattershard was easy . . . but getting out may not be possible.

Diverse Voices Children's Book Award

Filed under: awards — Tags: — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 8:12 am

Cristy Burne is the winner of the first Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award.
(story from the Times Online)

The inaugural Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award is for an unpublished book for eight to 12-year-olds that reflects cultural diversity either through the story content or the ethnic origins of the author. The first award went to Cristy Burne for Takeshita Demons, in which a Japanese girl whose family has moved from Osaka to London takes on the yokai (demons) of her grandmother’s stories. Takeshita Demons will be published by Frances Lincoln in summer 2010. Meanwhile, any author over 16 who has not previously published fiction for children can enter for the 2010 award (closing date 26 February 2010) . For more details contact diversevoices@sevenstories.org.uk or telephone Helena McConnell on 0845 271 0777.

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