Out Of Shadows by Jason Wallace has won this year's Branford Boase Award, which is given each year to the most outstanding work of fiction for children by a first time novelist. Previous winning writers include Marcus Sedgwick, Meg Rosoff, Kevin Brooks and Mal Peet.
The other books on the 2011 shortlist were:
I Am The Blade by J.P. Buxton
When I Was Joe by Keren David
Tall Story by Candy Gourlay
Unhooking The Moon by Gregory Hughes
The Crowfield Curse by Pat Walsh.
Out of Shadows also won this year's Costa Children's Book Award and was voted winner by the Carnegie shadowers at our joint schools' Abingdon Carnegie Forum.
