Blue Coat Best Book Award 2017

The Long List has been composed and the Year 9 Team is about to start reading! Perhaps you'd like to try some of these:

Kwame Alexander - Booked

Sam Angus - House on Hummingbird Island

Malorie Blackman - Chasing the Stars

John Boyne - The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

Kevin Brooks - Five Hundred Miles

John Buchan - The Thirty Nine Steps

Steve Cole - Strike Lightning (Young Bond)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles

Christopher Edge - The Many Worlds of Albie Bright

M A Griffin - Lifers

John Grisham - Theodore Boone: The Scandal

Carl Hiaasen - Hoot

Mary Hoffman - Shakespeare's Ghost

Anthony Horowitz - Trigger Mortis (James Bond)

Petr Kopl - Hound of the Baskervilles (Graphic Novel)

Tanya Landman - Hell and High Water

Simon Mayo - Blame

R J Palacio - Auggie and Me (3 Wonder Stories)

Rainbow Rowell - Carry On

Teresa Toten - The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

Ross Welford - Time Travelling with a Hamster

Anthony Williams - Hound of the Baskervilles (Graphic Novel)

We appear to be right on trend - some of these books have also been chosen for the Carnegie Medal Long List. Many of the authors have commented about the Blue Coat Best Book Award on the LRC's Twitter Feed too! The account is @STRS_LRC, using the hashtag #BlueCoatBestBook17 if you'd like to join us for news and comments on books and authors.