Alan Gibbons

The Edge

Alan Gibbons

• 2002 Carnegie shortlist
• Score: 6.52

Danny is a boy on the edge. A boy teetering on the brink of no return, living in fear. Cathy is his mother. She's been broken by fear. Chris Kane is fear - and they belong to him. But one day they escape. They're looking for freedom, for the promised land where they can start really living. Instead they find prejudice, and danger of another kind.

Shadow of the Minotaur: The Legendeer Trilogy 1

Alan Gibbons

• 2000 Carnegie shortlist
• Score: 6.5

This is a novel about a boy, Phoenix, the son of a computer geek who creates a virtual reality game that gets a bit too real. Phoenix becomes Theseus pursued by the Minotaur, becomes Perseus and confronts the Gorgon, and goes down into the underworld.