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Here at ABA HQ we’ve gone competition crazy! We’re offering you/your students the chance to win some awesome prizes!! (Seriously awesome – we’re almost tempted to keep them for ourselves!)

Click on the posters below for more information. We’re adding lots more to this site every week so keep checking back to see what’s new. Have you seen the NEW resources section yet? We’ve got Crosswords, Word Searches and Worksheets for each book. Go on – have a look! And you can let us know if we’re missing anything!

And remember – if you’re doing anything fun or different let us know! Send us an email with some photos so we can share your news/ideas with the group. Or if you’ve read one of the final 5 books and would like to see your thoughts about it on a post-it in the Readers Room section drop us a line: info@amazingbookawards.co.uk

It gives us great pleasure to announce the ABA 2013 Shortlist. And your final 5 are…

1. Daylight Saving by Edward Hogan
2. Dead Time by Anne Cassidy
3. The Repossession by Sam Hawksmoor
4. Slated by Teri Terry
5. Wolf Blood by N.M. Browne

We think it’s brilliant! A really good mixed bag of titles. It was SO close; books were just one vote apart in some cases and that’s why it’s SO important that your students vote!  This year we’ve received over 400 votes from our 21 partner schools and academies! How cool is that!? All you need to do now is order your books from the Book Nook and get reading! We can’t wait!

Keep watching the website as we’re going to put lots of stuff,  games and activities, up here for you to do with (or give to) your book clubs and ABA groups. Just check the 2013 resources pages every so often for an update. There you’ll also find PDF/JPEG copies of all resources  to print off for yourselves. If you need extra hard copies of anything please email us directly at info@amazingbookawards.co.uk

You’ll need to send us your final votes by Tuesday, 18th June at the very latest as any votes received after this date won’t count.  It would be such a shame for your students not to have their say, but you don’t have to worry about that now; we’ll send you lots more details about voting and how to do it nearer the deadline. This year we expect every school taking part to vote for the final awards, as that, after all, is what the ABAs are all about!

Your Shortlist goodie bag is already on its way to you. In it you will find everything you’ll need from now on. There’s:

• Posters 2013 Shortlist Posters
• Order Forms (Book Nook) Book Nook Order Form 2013 Shortlist
• Voting Forms (School & Students) ABA VOTING FORMS 2013
• Shortlist Spine Labels x65
• Bookmarks x20 ABA Finalist Bookmark
• Awards Night Author Question Sheet
• Advert for the Reading Room

Enjoy reading – we know we will!

Follow this link for the schools nomination form: 2013 Long List Nomination Form (Schools)

Hello all,

It gives us very great pleasure to announce The Sussex Coast Schools Amazing
Book Awards Long List – 2013.

And the nominees are:

1. VIII by H. M. Caster
2. Blood Red Road by Moria Young
3. Cracks by Caroline Green
4. Daylight Savings by Edward Hogan
5. Dead Time by Anne Cassidy
6. The Fury by Alexander Gordon Smith
7. Mister Creecher by Chris Priestley
8. Momentum by Saci Lloyd
9. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
10. The Repossession by Sam Hawksmoor
11. Saving Daisy by Phil Earle
12. Six Days by Philip Webb
13. Slated by Teri Terry
14. Unrest by Michelle Harrison
15. Wolf Blood by N.M. Browne

Follow this link for the nomination form…. 2013 Long List Nomination Form (Students)We’ve decided to make it a bit better this year. So each student gets a vote we’ve created a new nomination form. Students then choose which 5 books they want to read, you collect the forms and then tell us your top 5 books. But don’t worry if you have a couple of books with the same score – send them to us too and we’ll work out the overall “winners”.

Follow this link for the schools nomination form: 2013 Long List Nomination Form (Schools)

Follow this link for PDF versions of the Long List posters … ABA 2013 Long List Posters … your Long List voting pack is already on it’s way to you.

You can order books from the Long List from the Book Nook – follow this link for the order form:ABAs Long List Order Form 2013

Remember you need to send us your book choices by Monday 4^th Feb. and we’ll announce the shortlist on Friday 8^th Feb. Then all you have to do is start reading! It’s that simple!! If you have any questions remember you can always drop us a line @ info@amazingbookawards.co.uk

Have fun deciding!

A very Happy New Year to you all from us here at ABA HQ.

Looking foward to seeing you all on Monday 14th Jan. at Worthing High at 3.45 pm. The Long List awaits!

2013 is going to be awesome! Bring on the trumpets!

Wishing you all a happy and relaxing break! See you in the New Year for our first cluster meeting of 2013 (Jan. 14th at 4pm at Worthing High School) and the launch of the ABA 2013 Long-List. Yay!!

Happy Christmas!

We are very proud to announce the list of wonderful schools that will be joining the ABAs this year. For the first time ever we have 21 schools taking part across the Sussex Coast. How cool is that?

Our partner schools this year:

Remember to send us your subscription forms ASAP and we’ll send you your welcome pack. Huge thanks to those of you who have already sent these back to us.

But don’t worry! It’s not too late to sign-up, you’ve still got time. We’ve extended the subscriptions acceptance window until Monday 8^th October.

Keep watching this space for lots more information – including the launch of the 2013 Long List. Ooh yeah!

Hello! We’re back and ready to rock! Here at ABA HQ we hope you all had wonderful, sun-filled and relaxing summers. *

We are currently accepting and compiling the new long list for the ABAs 2013. Did you or your students read something last year you think should be included? (Publication date: 1st June 2011 to 31st May 2012) Well, all you need to do is send your recommendations via email  to  APhelan@worthinghigh.net as soon as you can, (and before the end of September) and we’ll add them to our long list. Then we’ll  send you the list and it’ll be up to you and your students to pick your top five. (We’ll send you more information on how to choose them nearer the time.)

If you are new to the ABAs or you would like to join us this year, please contact our membership advisor: Rachel.Johnson@shoreham-academy.org for more information.

Looking forward to working with you all again,

The ABA Team

Follow the link to print the new Long List Recommendations form: ABA Recommendations for Long List Form 2013

If you’d like to join us this year whether for the first time or as a renewal, please complete this form: ABA Subscription Form 2012-2013

The very first Amazing Book Awards night was, well, AMAZING!!

Huge thanks to all the students up and down the south coast who took part and voted for their favourite book – we really couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks also to our audience for coming out on the night and supporting us, it was so wonderful to see you all there. We hoped you had as much fun as we did!

• To our finalist authors Andrew, Jill, Kevin, Mike and Phil, for writing such wonderful books and giving us the chance to read and enjoy them – thank you!
• To Andrew Hammond who, let’s face it, was simply AWESOME, thank you for being such a wonderfully funny and gracious host.
• To Susanna Quinn for presenting the awards in such style – thank you!

And so finally, it gives us GREAT pleasure to announce the winners of the 2012 Sussex Coast Schools Amazing Book Awards:

• The BRONZE award was presented to Phil Earle for the wonderful Being Billy
• The SILVER award was presented to Kevin Brooks for the awesome iBoy
• And the GOLD award was presented to Mike Lancaster for the amazing 0.4

It really was a nail biting finish. The votes were so close, and I think we can all agree that all 5 books were simply amazing.

Keep checking the site. We’ll be uploading lots of photos over the next few days, and get
ready for September when we’ll be back and ready and raring for the 2013 ABAs!!!

Much love,
The ABA Team