The 2013 shortlist for the Carnegie medal...

...has been released. 

The contenders are:

• The Weight of Water, by Sarah Crossan

• A Greyhound of a Girl, by Roddy Doyle

• Maggot Moon, by Sally Gardner

• In Darkness, by Nick Lake

• Wonder, by R.J. Palacio

• Midwinterblood, by Marcus Sedgwick

• A Boy and a Bear in a Boat, by Dave Shelton

• Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein

I've read two (the Wein and the Doyle), but apparently I never got around to writing about the Doyle? Weird. A lot of these are on my TBR list, but especially the Gardner and the Sedgwick. You? Recommendations?