Celebrating the role of Australian authors, the shortlists for the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced.  Two of the shortlists are for teen and children’s fiction:

CHILDREN’S FICTION

 

Kissed by the Moon by Alison Lester

My Life as an Alphabet by Barry Jonsberg (published as The Categorical Universe of Candice Phee in the US)

 

Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan

Silver Button by Bob Graham

Song for a Scarlet Runner by Julie Hunt

 

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

  

The First Third by Will Kostakis

Girl Defective by Simmone Howell

The Incredible Here and Now by Felicity Castagna

 

Life in Outer Space by Melissa Keil

Pureheart by Cassandra Golds