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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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Here’s our excerpts and interviews with our wonderful #CNPKids 2024 shortlisted writers

2024 Shortlist — Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

www.cheshirenovelprizekids.com

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

10 months

I am delighted to launch our wonderful #CNPKids prize today - we have amazing judges & lots of resources on the site. If you are writing picture books, first chapter books, middle grade, YA or children’s fantasy, this is the prize for you!

Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

www.cheshirenovelprizekids.com

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️That’s our top 100 for 2023/24 kids prize. Join us Sunday over on instagram @ 7pm for a 15 minute chat with Founder @saranaidinecox Thanks to everyone who entered & don’t forget if you haven’t seen yours EVERYONE gets feedback.See you soon

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

4 months

Cheshire novel prize kids long-listing at 2 pm. We have 28 novels long-listed from over 800 entries! It’s not been an easy task; the standard was so high! We will post on here at 2pm, our instagram & a mail shot will be sent to al entrants this afternoon so check your junk

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA: Hunger Games, meets Maze Runner/Shadow & Bone. Series. When the sea vanishes, Mama and her baby sister disappear to uncover an ancient maze. Great story. We loved this one.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

Only 4 days to go to our #cheshirenovelprizekidslonglist announcement; so exciting We will be back today at 2pm with more #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ from our top 100 entries.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

10 months

Do check out our website

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

✂️✂️✂️to make 22 today- apologies. #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: A missing father, the Titanic,bombed hotel & memory loss. Set in Belfast this is a brilliant story which broke our hearts and uplifted us in equal measure. We adored this one and this was a reader favourite

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

4 months

Not long to go until our shortlist is announced on 15th April at 2pm for #CNPKids . Keep your eyes peeled after Easter because staring from 8th April every day at 2pm we will be posting ✂️✂️✂️✂️ #Cheshirenovelprizekidsfirstlines from all 28 of our long-listed novels!

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

4 months

Here’s our post on our website.

Cheshire Novel Prize Kids Proudly Presents Our Listed Writers 2023/24 — Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

Hi everyone, Thank you to everyone who entered Cheshire Novel prize Kids inaugural prize. We were astounded by the high standard of entries and choosing the long list from entries from 21 countries...

www.cheshirenovelprizekids.com

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets MG: A wonderful poignant yet uplifting story about a station with a difference. A story of lost souls, memories and being reunited with loved ones. We loved this.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: set in Ireland this ode to The Blair Witch Project, about a filmmaker making a documentary about the discovery of a bog body, and a missing girl. Great story with lots of suspense.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

Here we go ✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: A great story about a Super-Recogniser with a lot of dark secrets, and a double life catching dangerous criminals. We loved this story of adventure and grief and friendship and so did our readers.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets MG: A lovely story about a loner worried about disappointing everyone but when she crashes her bike into a tree the story and adventure unravels. Brilliantly done.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ This was classified as YA, but we think it’s MG: A journey. Racing across water, a little white boat, a skeleton crew aboard. Their destination unknown. Great story and a fabulous idea.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG/Fantasy: A little girl taking care of her dissociative mum and younger brother, a storm, an eyeless man sends her Mum into a permanent sleep. Will she wake her mum up? Fabulous story and great worldbuilding.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

4 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA: This MC is like a psychic vacuum cleaner – she can re-experience the memory-echoes of people and forgets nothing. Great concept and great writing. We loved this.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️FCB: A delightful story about life in the slimy, stinky, slightly sparkly drains and a little gremlin, who yearns for excitement and so he takes matters into his own hands.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets MG: A wonderful beautifully written story set in the Scottish Highlands with royal connections. A lame boy and his dog, a princess and her monster set off on a wonderful and heart-warming adventure and the kids readers loved this one.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ PB: This delightful PB about a little girl who can’t stay clean because she’s a mud magnet made us chuckle. Brilliantly written and very funny.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets MG: A brilliant adventure story about a maths teacher and part-time spy. We loved this book, and our kids did too. Great themes and well handled.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets PB: This is no ordinary library with a tendency to go a bit wild –we loved this brilliant, funny story and it made our readers chuckle too.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: A beloved grandpa a, retired old sailor, a fake death, and a logbook as a legacy. We loved this and so did our readers.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

4 months

Keep your eyes peeled for our one hour instagram in May to explain why some things got through and some didn’t. Also last week in March we will be sharing some of our kids readers comments on what they like to read through genre age groups. #cheshirenovelorizekidscomments ✂️✂️

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: Wonderful story set in Jamaica. A gripping story with strong themes. A dead body and an empty safe sends the MC on a quest to find a murderer. We loved this book and our older kids loved its sophistication and setting.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

10 months

After 4 days of emails and Groundhog Day - we got @prize_novel back but we will stay here too!! 💖

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

4 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️FCB: This little dog is at the pound, and only he & the elderly Scottie are left. But when he gets chosen by a lovely family, he sacrifices himself to make sure his friend gets a forever home before he dies. This one made us ugly cry.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: A brilliant time travelling story about a parent’s disappearance a year ago, and a girl flashing back in time with special powers who has to fight to save the day. Our readers loved the world this writer created.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: Wonderful queer coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh seaside town. A brilliant story with themes of addiction, friendship and mental health about a girl struggling to come to terms with differentiating between friendship and love.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: Fabulous story about a girl who has only ever experienced the outside world through illegal books and is forced to leave home when her father doesn’t return. We loved this virtual world and fell in love with the MC immediately.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: A brilliant story set in India and Ireland with missing suitcases, a projector, and past secrets. Wonderfully written book and a great adventure.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️FCB: A delightful story about a little boy who accidentally sends his granny to the moon. Will he get her back in time for Grandpa’s birthday surprise party? Fabulous story and it really made our kids laugh.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

It has been a challenge to choose a top 100 and a LL from the amount of talent we have had for #CNPKids we have laughed and cried and cheered and bitten our fingernails. For trusting us with your work we thank you so much. And if you don’t make the LL you still will get feedback

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA: Brilliant atmospheric story about an MC who lives in a huge tower block. Kids are disappearing; residents are threatening to revolt; and an addictive new drug, offering people an escape. Fabulous writing and great world-building.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA Fantasy: A seventeen-year-old is left alone in a cliffside home, where she finds a glass case containing human hearts. This MC needs to keep them alive. A great story with lots of suspense and tenison and the worldbuilding was sublime.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: Afterlife admissions officer and a quill and a VIP section. But VIP isn’t what it seems; it stands for vile Immoral Persons. We loved this

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets MG: A beautiful story about a little girl who prefers her street cat to humans. We loved this exotic, unusual setting and fell in love with this little girl instantly. Great themes and our readers loved this too.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets MG: A Brilliant story about a young troublemaker bitten by a spider racing against time to undo the spell. A lovely story about grandparents love and -self-belief. We adored this.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

4 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA: The biggest influencer on a social media app, this MC is staying in the ‘fairy house’ for her last convention of the summer. But having so many people ‘believe in her’ as an influencer is stressful. Great writing and brilliant dialogue.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: A coming-of-age drama about a teenager’s journey from failure to self-acceptance. A story of love and lost love, and teenage angst. We loved this.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets That’s it for now folks. We will be back on Monday with another 20! Have a fabulous weekend!

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

10 months

Have you checked out our kids prize website ? There’s some great advice from our 4 amazing judges too! we are open for entries until 31st December 2023!

Judging Panel — Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

www.cheshirenovelprizekids.com

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️PB: Don’t miss the last train home, or you may come across hungry monsters. We loved this one.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

4 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️FCB: This little boy can wish for anything as long as he goes to the magic wish shop and puts the wish back before it gets dark. So, when he doesn’t he finds himself stuck in medieval times. Will he escape? Cute story with moral lesson

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: We loved this story about a highly contagious virus and a 16-year-old MC who is smuggled North to the relative safety of the island where his grandmother lives. Until the community become suspicious of what the MC is doing there!

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: Set in the wonderful Isles of Scilly this treasure-seeker and her dad are the last two inhabitants of the island. Lovely story and our readers loved this too. Great themes.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

10 months

You can navigate to our kids page from our adult prize and vice Versa. If you are writing for adults out 2024 prize in its third year opens 1st January and our #CNPKids prize is open until 31st December 2023 #writers #WritingCommmunity #writing

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA/Fantasy: an orphan must rescue her run-away twin from Death’s swansong theatre for the dead before they are stuck there forever. An intriguing and unique story about grief and loss.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: This Eleven-year-old finally agrees to being evacuated and leaves home with his nine-year-old cousin, and his treasured lucky shilling in his pocket. Until he loses the lucky charm. Funny and engaging story.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA: A lovely WW story set in a tiny village in Yorkshire where the community comes together to solve a crime. Brilliant concept and great sense of place.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA: A week in Wales at an estranged Grandma’s house is an opportunity to heal a fractured relationship, or is it? We loved this Hunger Games vibey story about lies and family.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

4 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️ MG: A clever retelling of Goldilocks and the three bears meets Red Riding Hood as robbers in a bank vault. So clever and we loved it.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: A heartthrob at a sixth form college bowls over this normally sensible MC who leaps from middle-class suburban life into music festivals and a holiday destination that will land her in more trouble with the law.. Brilliantly written

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA Fantasy: When a prep-school student invokes an ancient magic to find hidden treasure, she must master a series of dangerous rituals to prevent the forces she’s unleashed from hurting her and her friends. Our readers loved this one.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets MG: A lovely story of myth and magic. A vengeful river god threatens to close a wellspring tended by a grandmother. Brilliant story with a great main character. Our readers loved this one.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

4 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA: This MC gains respite from bullies when he downloads a magical witch training app. But the magic doesn’t last. To make it permanent, he must do whatever the witches ask. Fabulously suspenseful story and engaging writing.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: When this MC is dragged to Wi-Fi-free Hotel for a summer of being a handyman-Dad’s dogsbody, he can’t wait to leave. Until he meets ghost-hunting twins, determined to prove the currently closed hotel is haunted. We loved this so much.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️PB: This postman has lost his memory and now the whole village is tasked to find it. But where did he leave it? Hilariously funny filmic PB.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: A coming-of-age drama about a teenager’s journey from failure to self-acceptance. A dead body, a cricketer and a MC struggling with family relationships and the truth. We really enjoyed this one.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: A wonderful story centred around an old wives’ tale and wishes, and lost parents but it is much more than that. With lovely themes of friendship and loss and kindness wrapped up in a great adventure. Our readers loved it.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets YA: A wonderful story set in heaven about destiny and getting back on the right trajectory. The writing is sublime, and we loved this one.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA: A dead body, a pair of uncomfortable shoes and a photograph of a woman this MC recognises. Great writing with Dorian Grey vibes.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: One of the best first lines we’ve seen and a brilliant story about metal detecting competitions. Can this little boy beat the competition with his new friend and make his grandad proud? Cute and poignant and very funny too!

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

🧵We will be back shortly with more snippets. ✂️✂️✂️We are slightly delaying our LL announcement to 4th March 2024 at 2pm. We will send an email out today to all entrants; a few writers mustakenly categorised their books & these need to be re-read for a fair process

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

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Our submissions for #Cheshirenovelprizekids who have passed round one have gone to our primary school children! Out long-list is announced on the 28th February at 2pm - we are so excited!

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA: This Goth loner hates her stepdad, who’s a mortician. In an altercation, the MC tells a friend to drop dead. The next day, her body is taken to their funeral home in their house . Fabulously plotted book and strong voice

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA: This Seventeen-year-old MC hates the cloud forest with a vengeance, and she hates her. Besides change isn’t always the best medicine. Or is it? We loved this clever tale and this claustrophobic world with its surprise sport element.

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️PB This little girl doesn’t like hugs and kisses, can her little sister come to the rescue. Cute story with good message.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️PB: We loved this clever story about a child whose parents are vets and so did our readers.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ MG: When this MC moves to a sleepy town, the last thing she expects is to find herself hunting for treasure but it’s a perfect distraction. Sparkly writing and amazing dialogue with a character who seems older than her years.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️PB: The moon can’t shine because he’s too sad, but the sun is tired of shining all day and needs help. Can this squabbling duo agree to help each other? Funny, sad, and cute in equal measure.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets MG: A brilliant story about an ambitious young footballer in Kenya. This one really tugged at our heartstrings and the kids wanted to do keepie-uppies after reading this one!

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ Writer thinks this is MG, we think its FCB: We loved this cute story about an autistic unicorn finding his extraordinary in the human world.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️FCB: The bakery mice have taken over & all hell’s broken loose. They want justice for Daring Darrun the head mouse wrongly convicted of robbing the local bank, but someone is doing scuppering their chances. Brilliant idea and very funny.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets MG: A beautiful story about a boy and his dog and new friends. Themes of kindness, family and bullying are well handled with a lovely ending. Our readers said they were glad that it ended how it did.

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: An apprentice to a wizard to pay off a debt and escape from poverty. Great story with Harry Potter vibes. We loved this one.

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ MG: Very clever book set on a perfect island, where schools and streets are patrolled by masked Invigilators, and some children are considered imperfect. We loved this one.

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We hope you understand; we are very excited about our LL but do bear with us. We have never delayed our announcements before but we have to run a fair competition, give every novel the consideration it deserves. Thanks for understanding so we can reread in the correct categories

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️FCB: Wizards and witches and a bouncy castle with an angry dragon are never a good combination. Fabulous story that made us chuckle.

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets MG: We loved this story of a vanishing father and a frosty aunt in Antarctica. Our kids’ readers said: “I’d love to solve this mystery and know what happens next.”

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️FCB: This little boy & his octopus-friend are working together to keep their reef free of rubbish. So, when they find another plastic bottle and carry it to the shore,this gorgeous, and relevant themed FCB made our hearts sing

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: A lovely story about a quiet and unassuming boy, grappling with his fear of standing out amid a media frensy to uncover his identity. Brilliant writing and great idea!

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA/Fantasy: A teenage singer in a future city with a voice that has the power to control people. Brilliant concept and great worldbuilding.

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️PB: Fairies fighting monsters? Surely not? We loved this quirky story.

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: This MC lives in London ruled by harsh Federation who control every aspect of life. The only good thing is his secret friendship. Until a secret is revealed that will change his life. Great story and an intriguing world.

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: This MC’s world is crumbling. A former champion climber, she’s been struck by a mystery illness leaving her exhausted and in pain. Does she have the disabling condition that will change her life forever? Wonderful idea and great writing.

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️PB: A witch, an apple pie and a prince? Yes Please! Lovely visual PB!

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets PB: Great, funny, and useful story about a pig who can’t sleep! Our little readers loved this one.

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5 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: An alternative Victorian London, the fight between good and evil, and magic and bad science. Will the balance between the two remain out of control and destroy the world? Gripping pacy story.

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ YA: This MC’s mom cleans houses. That’s how he meets the twins, and when he moves into the neighbouring duplex owned by the twins’ family, it isn’t long before the three are inseparable. Until his mom’s money starts to become sparse!

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Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ YA/Fantasy: This singer has talent but if she sings a word—even in her head— her family will die. So, when she is forced to work in a local music hall, will she manage to rise to the challenge? Great concept and twisty writing.

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ MG: A little girl attends her sister’s funeral and vows to take revenge on the ghosts she believes murdered her. Brilliant twisty story and great concept.

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ PB: This little bird has no family and friends at Christmas and is always alone until a little boy gives him the Christmas he’s always dreamed of. Heart-warming lovely tale of kindness and inclusion.

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets FCB: A wonderful retelling of a northern folk tale about witches, ham sandwiches and sleepovers. Our children’s readers wondered what had happened to the ducks.

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: This MC wants to play video games the but it’s all hands-on deck in the family-run funeral parlour. Then there’s an earthquake and everything turns on its head. Very cleverly written.

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We’ve been blown away by the talent. Thanks to everyone who has trusted us with your words. We are taking good care of them and remember everyone who enters will get feedback.

Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

Don’t forget we will be back today at 2pm with 22 #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️✂️ and remember these are the top 100 and our longlist is being chosen from these as we speak! Good luck to everyone who entered and if you didn’t do come and look.

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✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets MG: A gorgeous story about a boy and his grandfather. Definite Diary of a Wimpy Kid vibes. Our kids readers found it really funny that the main character ate something yukky and the themes of this one are strong from the start.

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: A lonely little boy who is bullied seeks refuge in his sketchbook and snacks in his secret hide away until it is not so secret anymore. Lovely story with great themes.

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Our long-list for our kids prize is announced on 28th February at 2pm! 👇👇

Cheshire Novel Prize Kids

@prizenovel_CNP

5 months

#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️✂️ Don’t forget from today @ 2pm until 27th February we will be posting cheshirenovelprizekids snippets from top 100 entrants every day until 27th February, so keep your eyes peeled. From this list we are currently choosing our long list

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️YA/Fantasy: This eighteen-year-old girl sick of hiding behind her performer parents after the drowning that made them flee their old island. Then when she gets her dream job, this is her chance to help her parents once and for all. Great!

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#cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️MG: We loved this story set in deepest darkest Worcestershire about a little boy who is forced to leave his dinosaur at the Zoo his mum works at when she leaves her job to move to the middle of nowhere.

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