The only national prize for teenage fiction, the Booktrust Teenage Book Prize, was won earlier this month by Marcus Sedgwick's My Swordhand is Singing which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
The other shortlisted books for 2007 were:
Theresa Breslin The Medici Seal
Kate Cann Leaving Poppy
Mal Peet The Penalty
Philip Reeve Here Lies Arthur
Meg Rosoff Just in Case
The 2006 winner was Henry Tumour by Anthony McGowan
More information:
http://www.bookheads.org.uk/
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article2792301.ece
