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Sophie McKenzie wins!

Sophie McKenzie celebrates her win!

The waiting is over. After seven months, hundreds of votes and hours of passionate debate in reading groups across the city, the fourth Manchester Book Award has been won by Sophie McKenzie's Six Steps To A Girl. Read more about the winner...

Book Award Exclusive!

Crash by J.A. Henderson

Read an extract from Crash

Exclusively for the Manchester Book Award web site, you can read an extract of Crash by J. A. Henderson.

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The library?

It's not just about getting a book out for a school project. It's about books you can really get your teeth into. Stuff that takes you to amazing places. Behind the library doors, there's a world of glamour, of danger, of weird...

Pupil reading Slam by Nick Hornby

Got your library ticket? If not, it’s quick and free to join. Just drop into your local library or register online.

Got homework? Most libraries have homework sessions with people there to help you get on track. If you can’t concentrate at home, or you haven’t got what you need to get the job done, then call in or find your local homework club online.

Got an internet connection? There are masses of online reference books and encyclopaedias you can access in the library, at home or at school. Renew your books, search the city’s library catalogue or reserve the Manchester Book Award books you want, all for free!

Pay us a visit, in person or online at www.manchester.gov.uk/libraries

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Most reviewed

  1. Six Steps To A Girl (49 reviews)
  2. Ways to Live Forever (39 reviews)
  3. The Amethyst Child (24 reviews)
  4. Forget Me Not (19 reviews)
  5. The Dragonfly Pool (19 reviews)
  6. Crash (19 reviews)

Top reviewers

  1. Katy Thorpe (24 reviews)
  2. Elouise (21 reviews)
  3. Hattie (12 reviews)
  4. oluwatosin sekoni (11 reviews)
  5. Laaraib Jamil (11 reviews)

Laaraib Jamil on Cosmic

“I liked Cosmic. It is very humourous. This would be a good book for people that enjoy things related to …”

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