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There are 6 books in this year’s Award. You challenge is to try and read all of them and then vote on your favourite. There will be certificates and prizes for those who do!

Read the first 1 or 2 chapters in your group and answer the following questions:

1. Who is telling the story?

2. Who are the main characters? What are they like? Describe them.

3. Where and when do you think the story is set?

4. What happens?

5. Predict what you think might happen in the rest of the book.

6. What kind of book is it? Genre?

7. Write down any new words you did not know and use a dictionary/thesaurus to find out what they mean and find alternative words the author could have used.

Other Activities

Script-writing
Draw the characters and label them with descriptions from the book
Design a different cover
Design a film poster/advert for the book
Devise an alternative title
Write a newspaper report for an incident in the book
Storyboard an event or chapter
Make a Voicethread and review the book as a class at www.voicethread.com or post your reviews here (http://voicethread.com/#u74875)
Interview one of the characters
Write a diary entry for one of the characters
Fill in your Review booklet
Make a wordsearch based on the book
Write a problem page letter from a character to an agony aunt
Write a letter to the author explaining what you liked and didn't like in the book
Research the author on the internet and prepare a presentation for the class
Write a review here on the website
In groups, act out one of these drama scripts, devised by Drama workshop leader Mary Fauset
- London Eye Mystery script (Adobe PDF, 12 KB)
- Toonhead script (Adobe PDF, 12 KB)

Games

Play Wordshoot, Matching Pairs, Manic Miner or Cannonball Fun - all specially written to use characters and events from this year's shortlist! Why not visit the games page now?
Play the London Eye Mystery Anagram Challenge (Clicking this link will take you to another website. To come back here, use the Back button.)
Try your luck at the Counting on Leroy Hangman Game... can you work out the words before Grandma is abducted by aliens? (Clicking this link will take you to another website. To come back here, use the Back button.)
Play the Toonhead Wordsearch Game (Clicking this link will take you to another website. To come back here, use the Back button.)