Booktrust Teenage prize shortlist.

And the titles are:

Auslander by Paul Dowswell
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
The Ant Colony by Jenny Valentine
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

Sigh.  I am so behind this year.  I've read one of the titles.  One.

And it's the one that everyone else has read.

After reading the descriptions at Booktrust, I kind of want to read all of them.  Especially... oh.  I just realized that I especially want to read all of them.  Minus the Ness, but that's only because I still need to read the first one.  And minus the Gaiman, because I've already read it.  But all of the others. 

I'm seeing an Amazon UK order in my near future.

Comments

[Brian F.]

You haven't read the first Ness? Exactly how sick were you?

[Leila]

So sick I couldn't read anything that involved more work than a Sophie Kinsella novel.

Which was not nearly as funny as I was led to believe.

It had its moments, but really it was like watered-down, tepid Bridget Jones.

Anyway, I'm going to read the Ness after I finish the one I'm reading right now.

I SWEAR.

[Chad Sayban]

Well you have one more than me. (sigh...)

[Celia]

I've read one, too. The exact same one. Feeling the same things about all the others. Even down to the Patrick Ness. *double sigh*

[Kelly]

Yay for Jenny Valentine. I heart JV.

Haven't read that one yet, but anxiously awaiting its US release!