2018 Older Reader Shortlist (11-15 yrs) 

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J K Rowling (Little, Brown, 2016)
Booked by Alexander Kwame (Anderson Press, 2016)
The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart (Chicken House, 2017)
The Bodyguard: Assassin, Book 5 by Chris Bradford (Puffin, 2017)
Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson (Scholastic, 2017)
Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan (Walker Books, 2015)

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