Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

The long list is:

The Goldsmith's Daughter by Tanya Landman

Bad Blood by Rhiannon Lassiter

Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd (David Fickling)

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

The Knife that Killed Me by Anthony McGowan