CILIP Carnegie Shortlist 2014
This year’s CILIP Carnegie shortlist is unusual in that half of the nominated titles deal with themes of kidnap and captivity: All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry sees a missing girl returning home after two years; a boy is kept hostage underground in The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks; Blood Family by Fine begins with police rescuing a seven-year-old boy from his mother’s abusive partner; and children are snatched and forced to become soldiers in The Child’s Elephant by The Times arts critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston.
CILIP Carnegie Medal 2014 shortlist:
All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry (Templar)
The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks (Puffin)
The Child’s Elephant by Rachel Campbell-Johnston (David Fickling Books)
Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper (Bodley Head)
Blood Family by Anne Fine (Doubleday)
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell (Faber & Faber)
Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead (Andersen Press)
The Wall by William Sutcliffe (Bloomsbury)
