Essex Book Award

Essex secondary school children have voted the book The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd as their favourite read for the Essex Book Award 2008. The novel describes how, after their friend Salim mysteriously disappears from the London Eye, Ted and Kat follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find him before time runs out. Bog Child, also by Siobhan Dowd is shortlisted for this year's Carnegie Medal.