Halloween Special

Why not try some of our favourite spooky stories and authors for Halloween - they are all available from the Library.

Junior Fiction

Tom Becker – Darkside series
Thomas Bloor – Worm in the Blood series
N.M. Browne - Basilisk
Rachel Caine – Morganville Vampires series HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Cassandra Clare – City of Bones/City of Ashes series HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Stephen Cole – The Wereling series
Joseph Delaney – Spook’s Apprentice series
Alan Gibbons – Legendeer Trilogy
Nick Gifford – Piggies
Anthony Horowitz – Horowitz Horror, The Power of Five series
Cliff McNish - Breathe HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Melissa Marr - Wicked Lovely HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight series HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Christopher Pike - The Last Vampire series
Books by Celia Rees
Books by E.E. Richardson
Sebastian Rook – Vampire Plagues series
Marcus Sedgewick – My Swordhand is Singing HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Darren Shan – The Saga of Darren Shan series, Demonata series HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Justin Somper – Vampirates series
Cate Tiernan – Wicca series HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Daniel Waters – Generation Dead HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Robert Westall - The Scarecrows
Scott Westerfeld - Parasite Positive


Senior Fiction

Books by Kelley Armstrong
Books by Joanthan Aycliffe
John Connolly - Nocturnes
Books by Stephen King HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Books by Anne Rice
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Bram Stoker - Dracula

More Award News

Children's Laureate Michael Rosen has launched the Roald Dahl Funny Prize to celebrate humour in children's writing. The shortlists have been released with the winners will be announced in November.

Ages Seven to Fourteen:

• Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton, illustrated by David Tazzyman
  
• Paddington Here and Now by Michael Bond, illustrated by RW Alley
  
• Stop in the Name of Pants! by Louise Rennison
  
• Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
  
• Aliens Don't Eat Dog Food by Dinah Capparucci
  
• Urgum and the Goo Goo Bah! by Kjartan Poskitt, illustrated by Philip Reeve

Ages Six and Under:

• Stick Man by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler
• Elephant Wellyphant by Nick Sharratt
• The Great Paper Caper by Oliver Jeffers
• The Witch's Children Go to School by Ursula Jones, illustrated by Russell Ayto
• There's an Ouch in My Pouch! by Jeanne Willis, illustrated by Garry Parsons
• Manfred the Baddie by John Fardell

Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Winner

Congratulations to Patrick Ness for winning the Guardian Children's Fiction prize for his book The Knife of Never Letting Go.

Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans...
Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...

Find out more about Patrick and The Knife of Never Letting Go at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/27/booksforchildrenandteenagers