Congratulations to Maurice Gee, whose YA novel The Limping Man has been shortlisted in the Young Adult category in the 2011 LIANZA Children’s Book Awards!

The Awards are judged by librarians in New Zealand for excellence in junior fiction, young adult fiction, illustration, non-fiction and te reo Maori.

The Limping Man is the third volume in Maurice Gee’s celebrated Salt Trilogy.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Wellington on 8 August.