Immanuel College Book Awards: The Short List

Wednesday, 2nd December 2009

The Immanuel College Book Award 2009 Committee is happy to announce that it has made its final decision from the original list of 20 books for this year’s nominations:
 
• Airman by Eion Colfer (Dastardly villains, a heroic teenager and the early history of flight)  Nominated by Roey Erez 10PM

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Teenagers forced to fight against each other to the death and all the citizens are obliged to watch them on their televisions)
Nominated by Alana Jacobs and Chana Bernstein 9JMG, Joseph Berenson 10PM, Marcus Kay 12LS

• Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd (A boy living on the border between North and South Ireland during the hunger strikes of the 1980s discovers the body of a girl buried in the bog since the Iron Age and their two stories become intertwined)
Nominated by Mrs. A. Goodman (staff)

• The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (A dystopian world where a young man battles for survival and integrity as he comes of age) Nominated by Joseph Berenson 10PM

• Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick (Set in the Arctic Circle at the time of the gold strikes, a young boy has to face a threatening stranger and make a choice about taking a life) Nominated by Josh Cainer 10PM

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (The story of a black maid and her white mistress set in the deep South of the USA during the growth of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s)  Nominated by Josh Cainer 10PM and Jaqui Woyda (parent)

A huge thank you must go to this year’s committee:

Students:

Year 7 – Bertie Green, Amitai Kerbel, Gaby Bush
Year 8 – Asher Dworkin
Year 9 –Alana Jacobs, Chana Bernstein, Rachel Turek, Sara Peskin
Year 10 – Joseph Berenson, Jamie Hakham, Daniel Levene , Joshua Cainer (friend of the committee)
Year 11 – Aryeh Dworkin (friend of the committee)
Year 12 – Ahron Peskin

Parents: Nicola Solomon, Michael Kestenbaum, Elliott Cohen – Yvonne Bernstein(Grandmother)

Staff: Mary Eyer (English) Amanda Goodman, Laura Samuels, Janet Leifer

We hope that students, their families and members of staff will find the time to read at least one of the books on the shortlist over the winter holidays.


Janet Leifer, Librarian