WAYRBA 2016 shortlists announced

The shortlists for the 2016 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced.

The shortlisted titles in each category are:

Picture books

• Pig the Fibber (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)
• Lest We Forget (Kerry Brown, Isobel Knowles & Benjamin Portas, ABC Books)
• Hello from Nowhere (Raewyn Caisley & Karen Blair, Viking)
• My Father the Great Pirate (Davide Cali & Maurizio A C Quarello, Wilkins Farago)
• Blue Whale Blues (Peter Carnavas, New Frontier)
• Punctuation Mark (Belinda Ellis, Scholastic)
• Red: A Crayon’s Story (Michael Hall, HarperCollins)
• The Red Poppy (David Hill & Fifi Colston, Scholastic)
• One Step at a Time (Jane Jolly & Sally Heinrich, Midnight Sun)
• My Two Blankets (Irena Kobald & Freya Blackwood, Little Hare)
• Anzac Ted (Belinda Landsberry, Exisle)
• A is for Australia (Frané Lessac, A&U)
• An Aussie Year: Twelve Months in the Life of Australian Kids (Tania McCartney & Tina Sterling, Exisle)
• Little Red Riding Hood (Not Quite) (Yvonne Morrison & Donovan Bixley, Scholastic)
• The Soldier’s Gift (Tony Palmer & Jane Tanner, Viking)
• The Great and Wondrous Storyteller (Michael Scott Parkinson, Five Mile Press)
• Not a Cloud in the Sky (Emma Quay, ABC Books)
• Lucas and Jack (Ellie Royce & Andrew McLean, Working Title Press)
• The Unlikely Story of Bennelong and Phillip (Michael Sedunary & Bern Emmerichs, Berbay Publishing)
• Here in the Garden (Briony Stewart, UQP)

Younger readers

• Mystery at Riddle Gully (Jen Banyard, Fremantle Press)
• The Bad Guys: Episode One (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)
• Feel the Fear: Ruby Redfort Book 4 (Lauren Child, HarperCollins)
• The Wishing Spell: The Land of Stories Book 1 (Chris Colfer, Orbit)
• Super WEIRD! (Anh Do, Scholastic)
• A Room Full of Chocolate (Jane Elson, Hodder)
• The Amazing Spencer Gray (Deb Fitzpatrick, Fremantle Press)
• To See the World (Elaine Forrestal, NLA)
• The 65-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan)
• Meet Daisy: Our Australian Girl (Michelle Hamer, Puffin)
• Bleakboy and Hunter Stand Out in the Rain (Steven Herrick, UQP)
• Long Haul: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney, Puffin)
• The Bushranger’s Boys: 1841 Do You Dare? (Alison Lloyd, Puffin)
• Catching Falling Stars (Karen McCombie, Scholastic)
• A Single Stone (Meg McKinlay, Walker Books)
• Big Nate Lives it Up (Lincoln Peirce, HarperCollins)
• Top of the Class (Nearly): Tom Gates Book 9 (Liz Pichon, Scholastic)
• Nathalia Buttface and the Most Embarrassing Five Minutes of Fame Ever (Nigel Smith, HarperCollins)
• Awful Auntie (David Walliams, HarperCollins)

Older readers

• Snow, White (Keith Austin, Red Fox)
• Two Wolves (Tristan Bancks, Random House)
• You Don’t Know Me (Sophia Bennett, The Chicken House)
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (Holly Black, Indigo)
• All Fall Down (Ally Carter, Scholastic)
• Isle of the Lost (Melissa De La Cruz, Hyperion)
• Saint Anything (Sarah Dessen, Puffin)
• Have You Seen Ally Queen (Deb Fitzpatrick, Fremantle Press)
• If I Stay (Gayle Forman, Random House)
• Soon (Morris Gleiztman, Viking)
• Last Chance Angel (Alex Gutteridge, Templar Publishing)
• How to Rock Braces and Glasses (Meg Haston, Little Brown)
• Life in Outer Space (Melissa Keil, HGE)
• Demon Road (Derek Landy, HarperCollins)
• We Were Liars (E Lockhart, A&U)
• Counting by 7’s (Holly Goldberg Sloan, Scholastic)
• Touch of Power (Maria V Snyder, Harlequin)
• Reboot (Amy Tintera, A&U)
• Cloudwish (Fiona Wood, Macmillan).

The WAYRBA are voted on by young readers across Western Australia. For more information about the awards, click here.

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