Bookworms back competition winner

The team of six pupils successfully picked out the eventual winner of the 2,500 prize, Anthony McGowan's Henry Tumour, which tells the story of a schoolboy whose brain tumour makes him say dirty words as well as quoting Shakespeare.

Harriet Crawley-Snowden, one of the Littlehampton reviewers said she liked Henry Tumour because it was "humorous without being too offensive".

The book was chosen as winner by a panel of five judges which included a teenager and a school librarian and announced on Thursday, November 2.

The other books in the running were Siobhan Dowd's A Swift Pure Cry, Ally Kennen's Beast, Paul Magrs's Exchange, Marcus Sedgwick's The Foreshadowing and John Singleton's Angel Blood.