Worcestershire schools have shortlisted Ultraviolet for their Teen Book Award.
Speed dating sessions in Worcestershire schools has resulted in a list of 6 top dates. Students around the county have been speeding through titles of books to choose their top 6.
These will now be read over the Spring term and a winner decided at an exciting quiz and celebration event in the Council Chamber in March 2012.
Young people will expand their range of genre and develop their critical thinking skills and above all have fun. Worcestershire is ahead of the Government in announcing our policies to promote reading for pleasure, as mentioned by Nick Gibb in early December.
Titles on shortlist:
Ultraviolet by R. J. Anderson
Diary of a lottery winner's daughter by Penelope Bush
An act of love by Alan Gibbons
Wish me dead by Helen Grant
Forgotten by Cat Patrick
There is no dog by Meg Rosoff