The Amazing Book Awards

Shoreham Academy, Kingston Lane, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 6YT

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Important Upcoming Dates

Friday 21st June 2024 - The ABA Awards Night

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Get Caught Reading

Hay hay! Have a butchers at this awesomeness!!

We’ve just had our first entry for this year’s Get Caught Reading Competition.  Featuring the lovely Joe, Emily, Izzy, Oscar and Matthew, Yr9 students from The Weald School.

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 Well done guys! It’s so random we LOVE it!

But don’t feel left out – there’s loads of time for you to enter too. Here’s everything you need to know about the competition.

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Happy snapping!

And don’t forget to look at our other competitions on the Competitions pages. We’ve got some cracking prizes on offer this year.

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Introducing the 2014 Shortlist

Wow!!! And what a Shortlist!

  • After Tomorrow – Gillian Cross
  • At Yellow Lake – Jane McLoughlin
  • Hollow Pike –James Dawson
  • The Drowning – Rachel Ward
  • The Killables – Gemma Malley

Fantastic! Incredible! Astonishing! Mind-blowing!

There’s lots more adjectives we could use to describe such an awesome list but you don’t need to hear them, after all, it’s your list! Your votes alone have given us an amazing Shortlist, and now all you have to do is read them. Easy! Oh, and then vote. But you don’t need to worry about that yet, you’ve got until June to think about who you want to win.

But don’t forget if you’d like to enter our competitions this year, have a look at these posters and see if anything tickles your fancy.

We’ll be in touch again soon with some awesome activities for you to do. And remember you can send us your pictures, thoughts and views at any time. @SussexABA on twitter or to our FaceBook page – The Amazing Book Awards.

So what are you waiting for?? Get reading!!!

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It is here! The 2014 ABA Long List…

We are very excited to announce the 2014 ABA Long List — and what a cracker it is!

  1. After Tomorrow – Gillian Cross
  2. At Yellow Lake – Jane McLoughlin
  3. Bodyguard: Hostage – Chris Bradford
  4. Burn Mark – Laura Powell
  5. Eleven Eleven – Paul Dowswell
  6. Fire City – Bali Rai
  7. Firewallers – Simon Packham
  8. Hollow Pike –James Dawson
  9. Hostage Three – Nick Lake
  10. Itch – Simon Mayo
  11. Lost Worlds – Andrew Lane
  12. The Drowning – Rachel Ward
  13. The Hanged Man Rises – Sarah Naughton
  14. The Killables – Gemma Malley
  15. Waiting for Gonzo – Dave Cousins
  16. Zom-B – Darren Shan

So come on! Now you’ve got until the 7th Feb to send us your votes. Each student votes for their top 5 books. Then we need to know how many people like each book for each school, so your final voting form will look like this:

  • After Tomorrow — 10
  • At Yellow Lake — 15
  • Bodyguard: Hostage — 12

Then we’ll add together all your totals and we’ll have our 2014 Shortlist. Simples. We’ll let you know what titles have made it to the Shortlist then all you have to do is to start reading. We’ve also got 3 major competitions for you this year – see the Competition page for more details – and we’ll have lots of fun activities and challenges for you to complete before the awards presentation night in July.

You can find another copy of the votings form here: 2014 ABA Long List Nomination Forms

We hope you like the Long List as much as we do! Don’t forget you can “Tweet” us your views (@SussexABA), “Like” us and message us on our FaceBook page (The Amazing Book Awards) or have a look at any video updates on our YouTube channel. Follow the links below.

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Great news!

Have a look at all the wonderful schools that will be joining the ABAs this year! 26! Wow, oh, wow! We’re so excited we can’t wait to share the Long List with you. We know for sure that this years’ ABAs will be bigger and better than ever!

Keep watching the site for updates, and don’t forget to tweet us any of your thoughts or ideas. And “like” us on Facebook. We’ve got some awesome competitions coming your way!

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The Long List 2014 will be published in Jan. then it’s over to you. We can’t wait!!

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You can now follow the ABAs on FaceBook, Twitter and YouTube.

Ain’t that just the bees knees? … Do bees actually have knees?

Follow us for live updates on the Long List, chats, competitions and lots more about the ABAs 2014.

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Welcome to the ABAs 2014

Welcome to the Amazing Book Awards website. We can’t believe it’s September already and we are starting to take new membership subscriptions and recommendations for the Long List 2014. Last year (2013) was an amazing year!! We had 5 fantastic finalist books (and authors) and a very worthy gold award winner in Teri Terry for the brilliant Slated. 2014 looks set to be even more amazing, epic in fact! Yay!

2013 Gold Award Winner: Teri Terry – Slated

Kyla’s memory has been erased,
her personality wiped blank,
her memories lost for ever.

She’s been Slated.

The government claims she was a terrorist, and that they are giving her a second chance—as long as she plays by their rules. But echoes of the past whisper in Kyla’s mind. Someone is lying to her, and nothing is as it seems. Who can she trust in her search for the truth?

If you would like to join us this year either again or first the first time please follow this link to the subscription form….ABA Subscription Form 2013-2014

If you would like to recommend books for our 2014 Long List this is the form you need….ABA Recommendations for Long List Form

When recommending books we have a few simple rules we need you to follow:

  1. The author must be based in the UK; they don’t have to be British just live here.
  2. The book must have been published in paperback between 1st June 2012 and 31st May 2013.
  3. The book cannot be part of a series – unless it is the first part.

We really hope you can join us this year. We are open to all Secondary Schools. If you would like more information about us and how we got started look at our Frequently Asked Questions page or email us directly on: info@amazingbookawards.co.uk,

Tweet us on: @SussexABA (or follow the direct link below) or Like us on Facebook: The Amazing Book Awards Page (or follow the direct link below).

Really hope we hear from you soon,

 

 

   

And the 2013 winners are…

 

 

 

 

 

Wow! What an amazing year! We are so lucky so many of you got involved. We had 21 schools, 350 students, 50 adults and countless book groups reading over 2,000 copies of our final 5 books. We really couldn’t be happier with the result.

Huge CONGRATULATIONS to Teri Terry, Edward Hogan and Sam Hawksmoor. Our Gold, Silver and Bronze winners 2013.

Miss out? Have a look at the 2013 Awards Night Picture Show. 

So here’s to 2014, we hope you have a great summer break! Keep following us on Twitter (@SussexABA) and liking us on FaceBook (The Amazing Book Awards Page) and we’ll keep you up-to-date with our plans for next year.

 

 

Golden Tickets

It’s nearly here! The 2013 ABA Presentation Night. YAY!!

We’d really love to see you at Shoreham Academy on Friday 5th July. The doors will open at 6.15 pm but you can arrive anytime from 5.45 pm. Look for the Front of House Crew in their ABA t-shirts and they’ll tell you where you need to go.

We’ll be selling refreshments in the atrium and there’s a special tombola to raise money for the National Literacy Trust. (with some awesomely-fantastic prizes!)

If you’d like more information about the night, need some more goldent tickets or need to know how to find us please do not hesitate to contact us on: info@amazingbookawards.co.uk

Hope to see lots and lots and lots of you there!

VOTING IS CLOSED!

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s it folks! Voting for the ABAs 2013 has officially closed for another year, and what a year it’s been. Oh my! It’s SO close this year and we’re dying to tell you who your Gold, Silver and Bronze winners are. But we’re afraid you’re going to have to wait until Friday 5th July and our grand awards evening. Sorry!

Thank you so much for taking part this year. We hope you had as much fun as we did. See you in a few weeks!