Young Quills winners and highly commended

It is with great pleasure that the HA is able to announce the winners of the Young Quills for Historical Fiction for 2024:

5-8 years category

Winner: The Most Famous Rhinoceros - Dianne Hofmeyr, illus. Simona Mulazzani (Otter-Barry Books)
Highly Commended: Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion - Dave Eggers, illus. Júlia Sardà (Walker) 

8-11 years category

Winner: Code Name Kingfisher - Liz Kessler (Simon & Schuster)
Highly Commended: Vita The Gladiator - Ally Sherrick (Chicken House)

11-13 years category

Winner: Where the River Takes Us - Lesley Parr (Bloomsbury)
Highly Commended: The Diary of Sarah Forbes Bonetta: A Novel - Victoria Princewill (Scholastic)

14+ category

Winner: The Wolf Girl, the Greeks and the Gods - Tom Holland, illus. Jason Cockcroft (Walker)
Highly Commended: The Wall Between Us - Dan Smith (Chicken House)

The Young Quills for Historical Fiction are book awards for authors writing historical fiction for young readers between the ages of 5 years through to young adult.

Publishers apply to have the books considered for the awards, allowing the HA to create a longlist. The books are then sent into schools across the UK. The shortlist for the Young Quills is then created based on the reviews of children and their thoughts, and the final decision is made a by a judging panel of experts that include an historian, an author and a literacy expert.