Ally Kennen
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Biography
Ally Kennen’s first book ‘Beast,’ (2007) Marion Lloyd Books was shortlisted for the Carnegie medal and the Branford Boase Award. It won the Manchester Book award and was published in sixteen languages.She has written many more prizewinning books for children and teenagers. She has recently opened a bookshop in her small Somerset town and LOVES IT. She writes when it is quiet.
Her website can be found at www.allykennen.com.
Awards:
Ally was the 2005 recipient of the PFD Bath Spa Prose Prize.
BEAST was the winner of the Manchester Book Award 2007 and was also longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Leicester Book Awards – Book of Year 2007, the Branford Boase Award 2007, Booktrust Teenage Prize 2006 and the Bolton Book Award.
BERSERK was the winner of the Leicester Book Award 2008.
SPARKS was shortlisted for The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2010 and the Bolton Children’s Book Award 2011.
Praise for Ally Kennen:
“This is all excellent, page-turning stuff, and the denouement, while subtly prefigured, is a genuine shock.” The Guardian on QUARRY
“…has a beautiful emotional intelligence and humour that make its suspense all the more enjoyable. It is one of the best new books for 9+ out this year.” The Times
Enterprising writing of a high calibre.” Independent on Sunday
“Inventive, funny and moving family adventure … one of the season s stand-outs particularly when original novels for this age group are so scarce.” Children’s Bookseller
“Funny, entertaining and surprisingly moving.” The Guardian
The Secret Viking Adventure
A brilliantly original and dazzling novel for younger readers from the author of THE EVERYTHING MACHINE. Coffin-stealing, boat-burning, telling lies – Carla’s crazy plan includes them all. Her Grandpa’s written her a letter telling her his secret dream: she’s going to make it come true, she’s going to give him a real Viking funeral.
