This Friday, the Carnegie shortlist will be announced, and the race will be on to read the nominated books and review them all before the winner is announced on the 24th of June.
The KS3 Reading Group will be taking on the task of shadowing the awards, following a very similar process to the one taken by the judges. Before the winner is announced, this group will come together as Shadowing judges and announce their own winner, based on their readings and opinions on the shortlisted titles. They'll be recording their progress on their Wiki page and cross-posting to the Carnegie Shadowing site if you'd like to shadow the Shadowers*.
Last year, the judges and Shadowers disagreed on their final choices. The Shadowers chose Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go as their favourite, while the judges chose Siobhan Dowd's Bog Child as the final winner.
We'd love to hear what you think of the process, and whether the judges or the Shadowers should be the final decision makers. Should a prize like this be awarded by the books' target audience?
If you'd be interested in joining them, please see Miss Adkins in the library as soon as possible!
*Which I imagine is much like watching the Watchmen.
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