Scot Gardner (17 works by)
Gender: Male

Awards

2012 Literature Board Grants Grants for Established Writers $40,000 for young adult literature.
2007 Literature Board Grants Grants for Established Writers $60,000 for young adult literature writing.
2005 Literature Board Grants Grants for Established Writers $25,000 for young adult literature.

Awards for Works

The Dead I Know , 2011 novel single work 'You wake in the middle of the night, your arms and feet pinned by strong hands. As you thrash your way to consciousness, a calm voice says, "Steady. We're here to help." Your mind registers a paramedic, a policeman, an ambulance. You are lying on the lookout at Keeper's Point, the lookout Amanda Creen supposedly threw herself off. And you have absolutely no idea how you got there.

'Aaron Rowe walks in his sleep. He has dreams he can't explain, and memories he can't recover. Death doesn't scare him - his new job with a funeral director may even be his salvation. But if he doesn't discover the truth about his hidden past soon, he may fall asleep one night and never wake up.' (From the publisher's website.)
2012 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Young Adult Fiction
2012 winner Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award Book of the Year: Older Readers
2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize
2011 highly commended FAW Christina Stead Award
2011 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Young Adults
Happy as Larry , 2010 novel single work

'Laurence Augustine Rainbow is born into an ordinary family, and seems set for an ordinary life. But as the world changes around him, so does the happiness of his own family.

'Unique, dark and ultimately uplifting, this is a beautiful story of one family - and one boy - trying to hold their heads above water in a world quietly gone mad.' (from the publisher's website.)

2010 joint winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Young Adults Joint winner with James Roy's Anonymity Jones.
Gravity , 2006 novel single work
2007 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Young Adult Fiction