Annal:2003 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
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Results of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in the year 2003.
For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel
- 2003 Guardian Award winner
- 2003 LATimes–1st Fiction winner
- 2003 Whitbread-Novel winner
- 2003 Carnegie shortlist
- 2003 JT Black-Fiction shortlist
- Score: 42.53
Christopher Boone is a fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a great deal about math and very little about human beings. When he finds his neighbors's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down.
- 2004 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 2003 Whitbread-Children's winner
- 2003 Carnegie shortlist
- 2003 Guardian Award shortlist
- Score: 32.54
Bobby Burns knows he’s a lucky lad. Growing up in sleepy Keely Bay, Bobby is exposed to all manner of wondrous things: stars reflecting off the icy sea, a friend that can heal injured fawns with her dreams, a man who can eat fire. But darkness seems to be approaching Bobby’s life from all sides...
- 2003 Guardian Award shortlist
- Score: 6.53
Caitlin is spending the summer on the windswept island that is her home. She is caught between girlhood and maturity, and feels utterly isolated from the rest of the world. Then she meets Lucas, who is the embodiment of freedom and honesty. She is instantly drawn to him. But Caitlin must also grapple with the darker forces that seem to be confronting her family. Lucas himself further complicates matters when he is hunted for an awful crime that Caitlin herself becomes involved in.
- 2003 Guardian Award shortlist
- Score: 6.53
Christopher Mallan loves Ernst Eckmann's sculptures. He visits his gallery often on his way home from school to marvel at the creations. They are so tiny and perfect they appear almost real. One day, the impossible happens - Christopher sees a sculpture move and dance. It even seems to breathe.
- 2005 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- 2003 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 10.55
The days between 27 December and New Year’s Eve are dead days—days when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our everyday lives. There is a man, Valerian, whose time is running out, who must pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. His servant is Boy, a child with no name and no past; a child he treats with contempt, but who serves his master well and finds solace in the company of his only friend, Willow.
Unknown to any of them it is Boy who holds the key to their destiny. Set in dark threatening cities…
- 2003 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 4.53
A hard-hitting and challenging novel about 13 year old Duffy's friendship with girl next door, Alice. What at first appears to be a lively imagination and a fixation with Alice in Wonderland, is revealed as a poignant cry for help as Duffy discovers the truth about the abuse Alice is suffering at home.
- 2003 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 4.53
With beautifully drawn characters and relationships, this is a gentle and moving book. It tells the story of Ari, a musically gifted child who emigrates from Germany to Australia, and has to cope with new relationships, at the loss of old relationships. Ari grows to realise that life is composed of many kinds of journey.
- 2003 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 4.53
John Malarkey is the new kid at Brook High who uncovers a mafia-like system at the school, involving fixed football games, a homework club where money changes hands, fake report cards and even teachers willing to take bribes.
