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2013 Shortlist Announced

The 2013 Shortlist has been announced.→ View more info

Welcome to the Southwark Book Award Website

Set up in 2007, the Southwark Book Award is a reading project for Year 6 and Year 7 pupils in the Southwark area of London. All primary and secondary schools in the area are entitled to participate, as are members of the popular "Chatterbooks" reading groups. The schools taking part this year are listed on the About the Award page.

The shortlist this year includes a wide variety of books to suit all tastes - just scroll down to the "virtual bookshelf" at the bottom of this page to see the books, or visit the Shortlist page to find out more about them.

Students at Southwark schools can write reviews on the website which can then be read by all visitors to the site.


2012 Winner

The winner of both the Critics' Choice Award and the overall vote 2012 is The Brilliant World of Tom Gates by Liz Pichon. Southwark readers found they could relate well to Tom's life, thought the story was really funny and loved Tom's doodles on the pages. Well done to everyone who participated in this year's award.

View photos from Critics' Choice Award Event

Latonia on Fizzlebert Stump: The Boy Who Ran Away From the Circus (and Joined the Library):

I found this book satisfactory because in the beginning this book wasn\'t as interesting or as funny as I thought it would be but was still hilarious! But I also thought it was quite earnest because e...

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Animoto 2013

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