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Announcing the Finalists and voting for the 2015 Language Learner Literature Awards

The Extensive Reading Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2015 Language Learner Literature Awards.
There are sixteen finalists over six categories for the award this year: Very Young Learners, Young Learners, and four categories for Adolescents & Adult: Beginner, Elementary, Intermediate, and Upper Intermediate & Advanced.   From these sixteen finalists, the ERF will select one winner in each of six categories taking into account the votes and comments of students and teachers of English worldwide.
All finalist books can be ordered online from the independent Cambridge International Book Centre <http://www.eflbooks.co.uk/reader_finalists.php> .

In Japan, the finalists can be ordered thorough the ETJ Book Service: http://www.etjbookservice.com/extensive-reading-foundation/. <http://www.etjbookservice.com/extensive-reading-foundation/>

Voting for the winners

If you or your students read any of the books and feel that they are worthy of the LLL Award, vote for them at http://erfoundation.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=18.

Login as a “guest” and then enter the access
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Voting closes on June 30, 2015.

The winning books will be announced at the Third World Congress on Extensive Reading in Dubai, 18-20 September 2015. See the listing of each finalist book below, in alphabetical order within each category.

Find out more at http://erfoundation.org/wordpress/awards/2015-finalists/ <http://erfoundation.org/wordpress/awards/2015-finalists/>
Averil Coxhead
Victoria University of Wellington
On behalf of the Extensive Reading Foundation

Very Young Learners

Granny Fixit and the Monkey
Author: Jane Cadwallader
Illustrator: Gustavo Mazali
Publisher: Young ELI Readers
ISBN: 9788853613233

The Leopard and the Monkey
Author: Retold by Richard Northcott
Illustrator: Cristiano Lissoni
Publisher: Helbling Languages
ISBN: 9783852727813

Young Learners

Backstage Pass
Author: Lesley Ito
Illustrator: Alice Carroll
Publisher: Atama-ii Books
ISBN: 9781941140345

A Land of New Hope
Author: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter
Illustrator: Lizzy Stewart
Publisher: Pearson/ Penguin Kids
ISBN: 9781447944430

Life in the Desert / The Stubborn Ship
Author: Paul Mason
Illustrator: Andy Elkerton
Publisher: MacMillan
ISBN:9780230460454
Adolescents & Adult: Beginner

The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Retold by: Michael Lacey Freeman
Illustrator: Simone Massoni
Publisher: Teen ELI Readers
ISBN: 9788853617439

Merlin
Author: Janet Hardy-Gould
Illustrator: Ollie Cuthbertson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780194249744


Adolescents & Adult: Elementary

The Bookshop
Author: Denise Kirby
Illustrator: Paul Fisher Johnson
Publisher: Heuber ILTS
ISBN: 9783191029944

Hunter in the Darkness
Author: Ramy Habeeb
Illustrator: Alice Carol
Publisher Atama-ii books
ISBN: 9781941140352

Sharks
Author: Izabella Heran
Illustrator: David Shephard
Publisher Penguin Active Reading
ISBN: 9781447954316
Adolescents & Adults: Intermediate

Amelia Earhart
Author: Janet Hardy-Gould
Illustrator: Simon Gurr
Publisher: Oxford Bookworms
ISBN: 9780194237956

Kilimanjaro
Author: Margaret Johnson
Illustrator: Redbean Design Pte Ltd
Publisher: National Geographic/CENGAGE Learning
ISBN: 9781424048753

Mystery in New Orleans
Author: Gina D. B. Clemen
Illustrator: Ivan Canu
Publisher: Black Cat
ISBN: 9788853014153

Adolescents & Adults: Upper Intermediate & Advanced

Checkmate
Author: Malorie Blackman
Retold by: Karen Holms
Illustrator:
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 978144793060

The Confession
Author: John Grisham
Retold by: Fiona Beddall
Illustrator: Paul Davidson
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 9781447954330

Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Brontë
Retold by: Peter Viney
Illustrator:
Publisher: Garnet Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781782602293