Annal:2001 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
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Results of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in the year 2001. This years judges were Anne Fine, Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson.
For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Seeing Stone: Book 1 of Arthur Trilogy
- 2001 Guardian Award winner
- 2001 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 2000 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 22.51
It is 1199 and young Arthur de Caldicot is waiting impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his friend’s father, Merlin, gives him a shining piece of obsidian, and his life becomes entwined with that of his namesake, the Arthur whose story he sees unfold in the stone.
In this many-layered novel, King Arthur is seen as a mysterious presence influencing not just one time and place, but many. The 100 short chapters are almost like snapshots, not only of the mythic tales of King Arthur, but the earthy, uncomfortable reality of the Middle Ages. Written…
- 2001 Guardian Award shortlist
- Score: 6.51
Orphaned by the death of their parents and bereft by the sudden death of their older brother Tom, nine-year-old Frances and three-year-old Harry are comforted by Tom's ghost, who helps them in difficult situations at home with their aunt and uncle and at school.
- 2001 Guardian Award shortlist
- Score: 6.51
The Yangtze in our story is not China's river, but rather a magical place in the Canadian countryside on the outskirts of a small town. There, in the 1950s, a group of children look forward to what promises to be a glorious summer. There are six of them — all different in age and character. Nancy is a down-to-earth girl, and her only challenge in life is Andrew, her elder brother. Then there are Clare, Amy, Sandra, and Tracy. The children have known each other and their families for most of their lives, but this is the year when everything they ever thought they knew will change.
- 2001 Guardian Award shortlist
- Score: 6.51
Enter the world of young Mary Newbury, a world where simply being different can cost a person her life. Hidden until now in the pages of her diary, Mary’s startling story begins in 1659, the year her beloved grandmother is hanged in the public square as a witch. Mary narrowly escapes a similar fate, only to face intolerance and new danger among the Puritans in the New World. How long can she hide her true identity? Will she ever find a place where her healing powers will not be feared?
- 2001 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 4.51
During his first twenty-four hours after finishing high school, seventeen-year-old Ellis unexpectedly becomes part of an inner-city world far different from his comfortable life, which helps deal with his best friend's recent suicide.
- 2001 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 4.51
Frankie is entranced by the girl in the red skirt, the gypsy from Romania who speaks no English. It is a terrible shock to him when his neighbours on the estate react violently against Emilia's people, and what's worse is that it's his mother leading the protest.
- 2001 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 4.51
After his father's death and his mother's swift remarriage, Russell begins to feel that he has a lot in common with Hamlet. So he is appalled when he and his mates manage to ruin the entire play during an excursion to the Theatre Royal.
- 2001 Carnegie shortlist
- 2001 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- 2001 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 16.51
Maia, an orphan, is sent from England to live with unfamiliar cousins on a rubber plantation in South America. The brave, curious girl and her fierce but kind governess arrive in their new home, each with secret hopes of adventure. These are immediately quashed by the Carters, who hate their adopted land and its inhabitants. They are obsessed with re-creating England in the forest, right down to the watery puddings...
- 2000 Carnegie winner
- 2001 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 2004 YRCA-Intermediate nominee
- 2001 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 24.5
Twelve-year-old Sade’s journalist father is a vocal critic of the corrupt government in Nigeria. When Sade’s mother is murdered, her family sees in bloody detail the violent risks that come with exposing the truth. Her father arranges for Sade and her younger brother to be smuggled to their uncle in London for safety. On the streets of London, the plans fall apart and they are abandoned ...
- 2001 Horn Book-fiction honor
- 2000 Carnegie shortlist
- 2000 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- 2001 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 22.51
The siege of Troy has lasted almost ten years. Inside the walled city, food is becoming scarce and the death toll is rising. From the heights of Mount Olympus, the Gods keep watch. But Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, is bored with the endless, dreary war, and so she turns her attention to two sisters: Marpessa, who is gifted with God-sight and serves as handmaiden to Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world; and Xanthe, who is kind and loving and tends the wounded soldiers in the Blood Room. When Eros fits an arrow to his silver-lit bow and lets it fly, neither sister will escape its power.
