Once Upon a Bookcase: YA book prize 2015

Thursday, 19 March 2015

The inaugural YA Book Prize 2015 awards ceremony happened tonight! This is not an event report, because I'm bad at them, but I need to talk about it!

Fortunately for me, the awards ceremony was happening at my Foyles branch. Unfortunately for me, I was working the late shift, and so couldn't attend. However, my amazing boss, Jo, who is also one of the judges for the prize, spoke to our supervisors to see if it was possible that I could pop in for a short while, and they said yes! Using my break, I had 45 mins to spend in our events space, seeing all the lovely authors have their photos taken before the winner was announced.

YA Book Prize shortlisted authors

Sorry, best of a bad bunch!
And then the winner was announced! And it was...

Monday, 8 December 2014

reading challenge, YA book prize 2015

YA Book Prize 2015 Reading Challenge

22:21 Jo 6 comments

Last Thursdsay, the Bookseller's YA Book Prize 2015 shortlist was announced! I was so excited to see a few really amazing books on the list, plus a few I haven't read. Here are the books that are on the shortlist.

An awesome shortlist, right? And I have decided to try and read all the books that have been shortlisted by the end of 2015. I have read three already, and will mark these on my reading challenge page. Anyone else interested in joining me? :)