Awards
DID YOU KNOW: Only 8 authors have ever won this award twice!
2018
Where the World Ends
2001
(Highly Commended)
Stop the Train
1988
A Pack of Lies
DID YOU KNOW: Geraldine is the only female author to win this award three times!
2018
Where the World Ends
2004
Not the End of the World
1994
Gold Dust
1987
A Little Lower than the Angels
2018
Where The World Ends
(Student Teacher’s Award)
1998
Forever X
2001
Kite Rider
2000
A Pilgrim's Progress
2007
The White Darkness
2004
Stop the Train
2003
Kite Rider
1998
The Pirate's Son
2008
The White Darkness
Bronze Award
2004
Smile!
2002
Stop the Train
2001
Kite Rider
1996
Plundering Paradise
2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal
A Tale of Two Dragons
2020 Michael L Printz Honor Book
Where the World Ends
2020 Kirkus Best Book of the Year
Where the World Ends
2018 Books are my Bag Award
Where the World Ends
2018 Hillingdon Secondary Book Award
Where the World Ends
2018 Warwickshire Secondary Book Award
Where the World Ends
2015 Weald Literary Medal
The Middle of Nowhere
2015 Carnegie Medal
The Middle of Nowhere
2015 Essex Book Awards
The Middle of Nowhere
2014 Little Rebels Children's Book Award
The Middle of Nowhere
2013 Young Quills Historical Fiction Award
The Middle of Nowhere
2013 UKLA
The Positively Last Performance
2011 Carnegie Medal
The Death-Defying Pepper Roux
Shortlists and Nominations
2008 UKLA
Tamburlaine's Elephants
2007 LA Times Book Awards
The White Darkness
2006 British Book Awards
Peter Pan in Scarlet
2005 Carnegie Medal
The White Darkness
2005 Whitbread (Costa Book Awards)
The White Darkness
2005 Katholische Kinder & Jugendbuchpreis
Not the End of the World
2004 The Hans Christian Andersen Award
"For A Lasting Contribution to Children's Literature"
2002 Blue Peter Book Awards
Grandma Chickenlegs
Britannia
2001 Carnegie Medal
Kite Rider
1998 Carnegie Medal
Forever X
1997 Whitbread (Costa Book Awards)
Plundering Paradise