The longlist for the 2014 Guardian Children’s Prize has been announced.  This UK prize has a list of books that are in stark contrast with the recent dark pick for the Carnegie Medal.  The shortlist will be announced in August with the winner announced on November 13th.

Here is the longlist:

  

The Dark Wild by Piers Torday

The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby: Flora in Love by Natasha Farrant

Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo

  

The Lost Gods by Francesca Simon

Phoenix by SF Said

She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick

 

Shine by Candy Gourlay

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart