Booktrust Teenage Book Prize

The shortlist for the 2005 prize has been announced. It includes Julie Burchill's debut novel for young people about a lesbian crush, Ann Halam's epic fantasy 'Siberia', and 'Come clean', which I wrote about here a couple of weeks ago. However my money's on 'How I live now', by Meg Rosoff, described in an Observer review as "a likely future classic".