One day an emergency jump occurs and when Beth wakes up she finds thanks to failures to secure hyper sleep in time she is the designated Captain of the ship and must assign a crew from the other children, repair the ship, and get to a safety point. On the journey Beth has been indicated as command material and must study alongside other students for their future roles, but she feels woefully inadequate.

The destination is many light years away so ‘jumps’ are necessary to speed the journey, but they come at a price, everyone must be in hyper sleep or significant brain damage will occur. However it is worth noting there are also plenty of alien encounters, worker droids, space welding and space pirates to keep interest for fans of the space adventures too.īeth and her family are space pioneers, leaving Earth on a one way ticket to set up a human colony on a far away planet. I was overjoyed to find Orion Lost is one of the latter, furthermore evoking the claustrophobic Classic whodunnit Murder or increasing calamitous mysteries of being cut off awaiting rescue whilst the microsociety on board unwittingly descends into folly and chaos. Harriet Whitehorn with Beck Moor (illus.Stories set predominantly on a Starship in Space tend to come down to one of two concepts for me meet the aliens pew-pew Earth Huzzah! sort of thing or exploration of human endeavour and spirit within the medium & character itself of space. Geekhood: Close Encounters of the Girl Kind The Whole Business with Kiffo and the PitbullĬhronicles of Egg: Deadweather and Sunrise

Recipients Waterstones Children's Book Prize winners and finalists Each category winner receives £2,000 with an overall winner chosen from the three getting an additional £3,000 (thus the overall winner receives £5,000 in total). The prize is awarded by British book retailer Waterstones.īeginning in 2012, the prize was divided into three categories: Picture Books, Fiction 5–12, and Teen. First awarded in 2005, the purpose of the prize is 'to uncover hidden talent in children's writing' and is therefore open only to authors who have published no more than three books. The Waterstones Children's Book Prize is an annual award given to a work of children's literature published during the previous year. Annual award given to a work of children's literature

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