For the first time this year, in order to recognise the calibre of the entries, we are releasing a longlist for the Booktrust Teenage Prize.

Now in its sixth year, the Booktrust Teenage Prize has seen a marked increase in the number and quality of submissions, making the judges' task ever more difficult. The panel agreed that this should be officially recognised, and the longlist is as follows:

The Declaration by Gemma Malley (Bloomsbury)

Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper (Bodley Head)

Creature of The Night by Kate Thompson (Bodley Head)

Before I Die by Jenny Downham (David Fickling)

The Knife That Killed Me by Anthony McGowan (Definitions)

The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore (Harper Collins)

Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine (HarperCollins)

Dirty Angels by Andrew Clover (Hodder)

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (Hodder)  

The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner (Orion)

Bad Blood by Rhiannon Lassiter  (OUP)  

Black Rabbit Summer by Kevin Brooks (Puffin)

What I Was by Meg Rosoff (Puffin)

Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz (Walker)

Apache by Tanya Landman (Walker)

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (Walker)