Oh wow! What a night! Congratulations to the wonderful James Dawson our 2014 Gold Award Winner. We loved Hollow Pike, and so it seems did all of you.

Gillian Cross and Gemma Malley were fantastic Silver and Bronze winners respectively, and Jane McLoughlin and Rachel Ward were fabulous finalists.

We said Friday 11th July was going to be EPIC and we did not lie. It was truly amazing. Over 300 people came along to hear the wonderful Teri Terry host what was an awesome night. And for a book award that is only 3 years old we could not be happier with the turn out and the participation across the year.

Huge thanks to you too, our participating schools, students and book groups. We could not run these awards without your support. 26 schools took part this year, and if you all decide to return then with the 3 new schools that have already signed up we’ll start the new ABA year in September with 29 schools. Wooooohoooooo!

Here are some of our fantastic competition winners this year:

The Get Caught Reading Winners

The Redesign the Book Cover Winners

Our Reading Passport Winner was Blythe Colquham for her wonderful and thoughtful passport. We also gave honourable mentions (and prizes) to Isobel Sherlock-Fuidge, Pheobe Ricci and Billie Ayling, whose passports were also fantastic.

Our Film/Book Trailer winners were: Megan, Natasha, Rosie and Yuxin from The Weald School for their Hollow Pike Trailer. We’d love to show it to you here but unfortunately it’s a bit too big but you can find it on our YouTube channel (click on the button at the bottom of the page).

We’ll have lots of photos from the night soon but for now here’s some photos of you lot.

All that’s left to do is to ask you to save the date for the ABAs next year:

FRIDAY 10th JULY 2015

Thank you one and all for your support this year, and we can promise that next year won’t be epic it’ll be MASSIVE!

Wow! What an amazing year! And what a vote!! This has to be the closest year ever. (Honestly!) Every single vote counted. Now you’ll just have to wait until Friday 11th July to find out who has won our Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. (We’re SO excited we might pop!!!)

Hay! Have you got your golden ticket yet? No?? Well what are you waiting for? To get yours before it’s too late email us on:

info@amazingbookawards.co.uk

“I’ve got a golden ticket!” (Actually we’ve got lots!)

And don’t forget it’s still not too late to enter our competitions –                                   Deadline: Friday 27th June.

 IT’S GOING TO BE AMAZING!!

Wow! Can you believe it? We are only just 7 weeks away from the 2014 Amazing Book Awards Presentation Night (July 11th) Just 7 weeks!! Have you got your golden tickets yet? You can order them from us: info@amazingbookawards.co.uk

FRIDAY 11^th JULY

We are so lucky to have the wonderful and multi-award winning Teri Terry (author of the amazing Slated, Fractured and Shattered) returning to the ABAs to be our fantastic host for the evening. Teri has lived in France, Canada, Australia and England. Moving constantly has kept Teri on the outside looking in much of her life. It has given her an obsession with characters like Kyla in Slated, who don’t belong or find themselves in unfamiliar places. Teri recently left her job with Buck’s Libraries to write full-time and complete her research MA on the depiction of terrorism in recent young adult dystopian literature.

Teri will be joined by all 5 of our finalist authors. Gemma Malley, Gillian Cross, James Dawson, Jane McLoughlin and Rachel Ward. All the authors will be talking about their books, their inspirations and the very interesting lives. They will also be available to chat and sign their books at the end of the night. * The Book Nook, Hove, will be with us selling copies of our finalists (and Teri’s) books so you can buy them on the night. * The Friends of Shoreham Academy will be with us too, selling some yummy light refreshments throughout the evening.

We will be at Shoreham Academy again this year. Doors open at 6:00 pm, we really hope to see you there! (We will send you more details about this soon)

The closing dates for voting and the competitions (June 27th) are fast approaching so just keep 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.

 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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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!

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

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.

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 1^st June 2012 and 31^st 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,

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.