Annal:2005 Whitbread Book Award for Children's Book
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Results of the Whitbread Book Award in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Whitbread Book Award for Children's Book
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors.
- 2005 Guardian Award winner
- 2005 Whitbread-Children's winner
- 2008 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
- Score: 26.55
Who knows where the time goes? There is never enough of it in Kinvara, or anywhere else in Ireland for that matter. When Helen Liddy is asked what she wants for her birthday, she says, “Time. That’s what I want. Time.” When JJ sets out to buy his mother some time he discovers the answer as well as some truly remarkable things about music, myth and magic. And more.
- 2007 Carnegie shortlist
- 2006 Guardian Award shortlist
- 2005 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 18.57
Dylan is the only boy living in the tiny Welsh town of Manod. His parents run the Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel garage—and when he’s not trying to persuade his sisters to play football, Dylan is in charge of the petrol log. And that means he gets to keep track of everyone coming in and out of Manod—what car they drive, what they’re called, even their favourite flavour of crisps. But when a mysterious convoy of lorries trundles up the misty mountainside towards an old, disused mine, even Dylan is confounded. Who are these people—and what have they got to hide?…
- 2008 Printz winner
- 2007 Carnegie shortlist
- 2007 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 2005 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 28.58
Captain Oates, hero of the Antarctic, has been dead for nearly a century. But not in Sym’s head. In there, he is her constant companion, her soul mate, her adviser. It is as if he walked out of the Polar blizzard and into her mind. In fact, if it were not for Titus, life might be as bleak a place as the Antarctic wilderness.
Then a short family expedition makes her ask the question she has long been avoiding: who but the mad trust for happiness to someone or something that isn’t there?
- 2005 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 6.55
As usual, things are a bit chaotic. Eldest daughter Caddy is now engaged to darling Michael, and she’s not altogether sure she likes it. Saffy and Sarah are on a mission to find Saffy’s biological father (while cultivating hearts of stone). Indigo is cautiously beginning a friendship with a reformed bully, who desperately wants to feel like part of the Casson family. Rose, while missing Tom (who none of them have heard from) dreadfully, enters into a life of petty crime, shoplifting small items until her misadventures nearly bring disaster. An accidental trip to…
