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History
Superseded by the Prize for Young Adult Fiction.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1998
winner y
Night Train
Ringwood
:
Penguin
,
1998
Z383186
1998
single work
novel
young adult
Only Luke can hear the night train. Threatened at school, pressured by his parents, paralysed by anxiety about his final exams, Luke begins to doubt himself. Is the night train real, or is it only in his mind? If it's real then he's all right; then, no matter what, he can start all over again.
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Year: 1997
winner y
Pagan's Scribe
Norwood
:
Omnibus Books
,
1996
Z184803
1996
single work
novel
young adult
historical fiction
'In France in 1209, Pagan, now an archdeacon, takes on a new scribe named Isidore, a fifteen-year-old epileptic and an orphan, and together they try to survive the siege of Carcassonne.' (Publication summary)
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Year: 1996
winner y
Sleeping Dogs
Ringwood
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Viking
,
1995
Z238800
1995
single work
novel
young adult
(taught in 8 units)
The misanthropic, sadistic father of five children, ages 12 to 25, Griffin Willow runs a trailer park on his dilapidated farm in rural Australia. Isolated from all outside influences, even the neighboring small town, the Willow family has created its own oppressive, sheltered, and decaying world. Despite abuse from their father and a silent, withdrawn mother, all five children live at home and help run the trailer park. Twenty-three-year-old Michelle and her younger brother Jordan have found solace in an incestuous relationship, which they carefully conceal from their parents. When Bow Fox, an itinerant artist, comes to stay at the park, their 15-year-old brother, Oliver, accidently reveals their secret. So begins an agonizing, irreversible progression of violence and betrayal. (Source: Trove)
