Dudley Children’s Book Awards

Our 2024 award is launched!

Staff and students in the participating Dudley Borough Primary and Secondary Schools will now start reading and vote for their favourite book in time for our ‘Celebration Event’ on the afternoon of Tuesday 18th March 2025, at which the winners will be announced ! Voting will close at the start of March.

The criteria for our book award is:

Books must have been published for the first time during the year of the award.

Books are not included if they are a sequel or part of a series.

WINNER 2024

Signed Sealed Dead

Murphy, Cynthia ISBN: 9780702318528
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True-Crime obsessed Paige, and her family, move across the Atlantic to her father's eerie hometown, and it's not long before she uncovers the town's dark history - a string of unsolved murders and disappearances in the 90s. And then notes start appearing at their dilapidated old home, about the secrets the house is keeping. The clues lead Paige to a diary concealed in the walls that belonged to one of the missing girls. Could this be the key to solving a quarter-of-a-century mystery, or will this make Paige the next target?!

- Browns Books Synopsis

Shortlist 2024

Faizal, Hafsah ISBN: 9781529098938
Paperback / softback

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Murphy, Cynthia ISBN: 9780702318528
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Valentine, Jenny ISBN: 9781471196584
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Welliver, Melissa ISBN: 9781915947130
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