The Guardian Children's Fiction prize will be awarded in September and this is the Longlist, a mixture of revenge, romance and revolution:
Genesis by Bernard Beckett (Quercus, £10.99)
The Silver Blade by Sally Gardner (Orion, £9.99)
Nation by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday, £16.99)
Then by Morris Gleitzman (Puffin, £5.99)
Rowan the Strange by Julie Hearn (Oxford, £10.99)
Exposure by Mal Peet (Walker Books, £7.99)
Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd (David Fickling Books, £10.99)
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick (Orion, £9.99)
More details about each of the books