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 2015 Winner

Author : Louise O’Neill Pulisher : Quercus / 2015

Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions--wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure they stay in the top ten beautiful girls in their year. The alternatives--life as a concubine, or a chastity (teaching endless generations of girls)--are too horrible to contemplate.

 2015 Shortlist

Author : Lucy Ivison and Tom Ellen Publisher ; Chicken House / 2014

Sam and Hannah only have the holidays to find 'The One'. Their lobster. But instead of being epic, their summer is looking awkward. They must navigate social misunderstandings, the plotting of well-meaning friends, and their own fears of being virgins for ever to find happiness. But fate is at work to bring them together. And in the end, it all boils down to love.

Author : Keren David Publisher : Atom / 2014 Before she was adopted by a loving family and raised in a leafy Home Counties town, Cass Montgomery was Cass Jones. Her memories of her birth family disappeared with her name. But when her adopted family starts to break down, a way out comes in the form of a message from her lost brother, Aidan. Having Aidan back in her life is both everything she needs and nothing she expected. Who is this boy who calls himself her brother? And why is he so haunted?

Author : Dawn O’Porter Publisher : Bonnier Publishing / 2015

A year and a half from Paper Aeroplanes, Renée and Flo have tough choices to make—will they go to university? If so, where—and will they go together? Their friendship will be tested in a way neither of them could have expected. If Paper Aeroplanes was a book about finding friendship, Goose explores whether it's possible to keep hold of it.

Author : Marcus Sedgwick Publisher : Orion Children's The spiral has existed as long as time has existed. It is there when a girl walks through the forest, the moist green air clinging to her skin. There centuries later in a pleasant greendale, hiding the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna, who they call a witch. There on the other side of the world, where a mad poet watches the waves and knows the horrors they hide, and far into the future as Keir Bowman realises his destiny. Each takes their step in life. None will ever go back to the same place. And so their journeys begin . . .

Author : Non Pratt Publisher : Simon & Schuster / 2015 Hannah is smart and funny. She’s also fifteen and pregnant. Aaron is the new boy at school. He doesn’t want to attract attention. So why does Aaron offer to be the pretend dad to Hannah’s unborn baby? Growing up can be trouble but that’s how you find out what really matters.