The shortlist for the 2014 Guardian Children’s Fiction Award has been announced.  Here is my favorite quote about the books from the article in The Guardian:

Carnegie and Guardian children’s ficiton prize winner Frank Cottrell Boyce sums it up: “We have space and squirrels, secrets and fantasies – a list of amazing diversity and exuberant invention”.

And here is the shortlist:

 

The Dark Wild by Pier Torday

Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo

 

Phoenix by SF Said

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart