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06/09/2004
Children's fiction shortlist announced
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Meg Rosoff, Anne Turnbull and Leslie Wilson have made it on to the shortlist for the 2004 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
Their novels were chosen from a longlist of eight books and the overall winner will be announced on 9 October.
Frank Cottrell Boyce's 'Millions', 'How I Live Now' by Meg Rosoff, 'No Shame, No Fear' by Anne Turnbull and Leslie Wilson's 'Last Train from Kummersdorf' were selected by a panel of their peers.
This year's judges are Mark Haddon, who won the award last year with his crossover success 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time', prolific author Adèle Geras and award-winning writer Marcus Sedgwick. The panel is chaired by Julia Eccleshare.
Past winners of the Children's Fiction Prize include Ted Hughes, Anne Fine, Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson.
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