''The Guardian'' also promotes a literary prize for adult fiction, see Guardian First Book Award .
- Kate Thompson, ''The New Policeman'' (Bodley Head)
- Meg Rosoff, ''How I Live Now'' (Puffin)
- Mark Haddon , '' The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time '' (David Fickling)
- Sonya Hartnett , ''Thursday's Child'' (Walker)
- Kevin Crossley-Holland , ''The Seeing Stone'' (Orion)
- Jacqueline Wilson , ''The Illustrated Mum'' (Transworld)
- Susan Price, ''The Sterkarm Handshake'' (Scholastic)
- Henrietta Branford, ''Fire, Bed and Bone'' (Walker)
- Melvin Burgess , '' Junk '' (Penguin)
- Joint Winners:
- --- Philip Pullman , '' Northern Lights '' (Scholastic; published in the U.S. as ''The Golden Compass'')
- --- Alison Prince , ''The Sherwood Hero'' (Macmillan)
- Lesley Howarth, ''MapHead'' (Walker Books)
- Sylvia Waugh, ''The Mennyms'' (Julia MacRae)
- William Mayne , ''Low Tide'' (Cape)
- Joint Winners:
- --- Rachel Anderson , ''Paper Faces'' (Oxford University Press)
- --- Hilary McKay , ''The Exiles'' (Gollancz)
- Robert Westall , ''The Kingdom by the Sea'' (Methuen)
- Anne Fine , ''Goggle-Eyes'' (Hamish Hamilton)
- Geraldine McCaughrean , ''A Pack of Lies'' (Oxford University Press)
- Ruth Thomas, ''The Runaways'' (Hutchinson)
- James Aldridge, ''The True Story of Spit MacPhee'' (Viking Kestrel)
- Ann Pilling, ''Henry's Leg'' (Viking Kestrel)
- Ted Hughes , ''What is the Truth'' (Faber)
- Dick King-Smith , ''The Sheep-Pig'' (Gollancz) (this book served as the basis for the movie '' Babe '')
- Anita Desai , ''Village by the Sea'' (Heinemann)
- Michelle Magorian , '' Goodnight Mr Tom '' (Kestrel)
- Peter Carter, ''The Sentinels'' (Oxford University Press)
- Ann Schlee, ''The Vandal'' (Macmillan)
- Andrew Davies , ''Conrad's War'' (Blackie)
- Diana Wynne Jones , '' Charmed Life '' (Macmillan)
- Peter Dickinson , ''The Blue Hawk'' (Gollancz)
- Nina Bawden , ''The Peppermint Pig'' (Gollancz)
- Winifred Cawley, ''Gran at Coalgate'' (Oxford University Press)
- Barbara Willard , ''The Iron Lily'' (Longman Young Books)
- Richard Adams , '' Watership Down '' (Rex Collings)
- Gillian Avery, ''A Likely Lad'' (Collins)
- John Christopher , ''The Guardians'' (Hamilton)
- K. M. Peyton , '' Flambards '' (Oxford University Press)
- Joan Aiken , '' The Whispering Mountain '' (Cape)
- Alan Garner , '' The Owl Service '' (Collins)
- Leon Garfield , ''Devil-in-a-Fog'' (Constable)
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