The North East Book Award
The NEBA was set up 6 years ago due to popular demand; those schools who had taken part in the North East Teenage Book Award wanted a similar scheme to enthuse their younger readers in Y7 and 8 about new books and exciting new authors too.
The aim of the younger and teenage awards remain the same; we want to make young people more aware of the quality and variety of exciting writing out there, to celebrate and support the authors to and create opportunities for the authors to meet their avid readers. We remain amazed at how many schools want to take part and now 25 schools sign up every year from across the whole NE region.
Congratulations to Ellen Renner, author of Castle of Shadows for winning the 2010 North East Book Award. http://northeastbookaward.wordpress.com/
Leeds Book Award
Congratulations also go to David Gatward who has just won the Leeds Book Award for the 11-14 year old category. http://www.leedsbookawards.co.uk/2011/