Ally Kennen’s debut novel BEAST has been shortlisted for the highly-prestigious 70th annual CLIP Carnegie Medal. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the British Library London on Thursday 21 June 2007. The shortlist pits established writers such as two-time former Medal winner Anne Fine, and the previously shortlisted Kevin Brooks and Marcus Sedgwick, against newer writers such as Meg Rosoff, Siobhan Dowd and PFD’s Ally Kennen.
BEAST is an exceptional novel - in the depths of a reservoir lives a monstrous creature. Its existence is unknown to anyone except the teenage boy who feeds it. Six years ago it was a vicious little baby. Now it has grown huge, and its rusting cage can’t hold it much longer… Stephen is a boy with many secrets, and the Beast is the biggest. His life in foster care, always bad, is getting worse, and he’s in trouble with the police. All the odds are against him finding a decent place in the world, but his efforts to free himself of the Beast make him a hero that readers will never forget.
It is published by Scholastic in the UK and US and worldwide in translation. Ally new novel BERSERK is published on May 7th.
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