Angus Book Award 2010 Launch
Third year Angus pupils gathered in the Montrose Town Hall on Monday 7 December for the launch of the Angus Book Award 2010 where they were shown a collage of short films created by last year's participating pupils in response to the 2009 shortlisted titles. Carnoustie High pupils captivated the audience with quirky facts about the Award and Arbroath Academy pupils read excerpts from this year's shortlisted titles.
Since the first Book Award in 1996, the event has captured the imagination of S3 pupils throughout the county.
Over the coming months, pupils will read their way through the shortlist, before voting for their favourite in a secret ballot.
This year the shortlist features novels by three authors new to the Angus Book Award and a return by 2007 winner Kevin Brooks with Black Rabbit Summer, a vivid, explosive, weird and eerie, fast paced, menacing novel that grips the reader like a vice! Anna Perera's Guantanamo Boy is a realistic and harrowing account of a teenage boy whose dreams are crushed after being abducted and held in Guantanamo Bay for two years. Gillian Philip's Crossing the Line tells of the tragic consequences from one random decision where, life, friends and family have all changed and there's no going back. The final shortlisted title is Numbers by Rachel Ward a compelling account of one girl's ability to see in the eyes of people the date of their death and of how she foresees something terrible that will change her life forever.
The 2010 winner will be announced at the Award ceremony at Kirriemuir Town Hall on 18 May 2010.
