Annal:2000 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
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Results of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in the year 2000.
For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2000 Guardian Award winner
- 1999 Carnegie shortlist
- 1999 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 22.5
Covered from head to toe with one-of-a-kind tattoos, Marigold is the brightest, most beautiful mother in the world. At least, that’s what Dolphin thinks—she just wishes Marigold wouldn’t stay out quite so late or have mood spells every now and again. Dolphin’s older sister, Star, loves Marigold too, but she’s tired of looking after her. So when Star’s dad shows up out of the blue and offers to let the girls stay with him, Star jumps at the opportunity. But Dolphin can’t bear to leave Marigold alone. Now it’s just the two of them, and Dolphin is about to be in over her head…
- 2001 Printz winner
- 2000 Guardian Award shortlist
- 1999 Carnegie shortlist
- 2003 YRCA-Intermediate nominee
- Score: 26.51
The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit’s recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family had both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites Kit to join him to play a game called Death. As Kit’s grandfather provides stories of the mine’s past and the history of the Watson family, the boys search the mines to find the childhood ghosts of their long-gone ancestors.
- 2000 Guardian Award shortlist
- 1999 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 12.5
Taken from Africa to a foster home in London after his family is killed by an enemy tribe, Kaninda discovers the meaning of hate and the value of not hating.
- 2000 Guardian Award shortlist
- 2000 Horn Book-fiction honor
- 1999 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 18.5
Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years—to another London, and another production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
- 2000 Guardian Award shortlist
- Score: 6.5
A young man has a near-death experience and finds himself at the end of a long tunnel. He is greeted by strangers who say they are expecting him "under a black sun at the end of a thousand years" and that the place is called Qantoum. He discovers that Qantoum is a town in deepest Asia.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Book 3 of Harry Potter
- 1999 Stoker–Youth winner
- 1999 Whitbread-Children's winner
- 2000 Guardian Award shortlist
- 2000 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 2000 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
- 1999 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 44.49
For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Harry Potter isn’t safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.
