New Award Book

Recently announced winner of the Phoenix Award, awarded annually since 1985 by the Children’s Literature Association to a book originally published in English twenty years previously which did not receive a major award at the time of its publication.

Eva - Peter Dickinson
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee. The picnic on the beach is Eva's last memory. As she lies in the hospital bed while her mother explains about the accident and the coma, Eva senses there is something they are not telling her--a price she must pay to be alive.