BOLTON children's favourite author will be announced on Saturday.
Since February, schoolchildren have been reading and analysing eight books to judge the winner of this year's Bolton Children's Book Award.
Each of the 100 pupils, aged 11 and 12, taking part in the judging have now voted.
The winning writer will be announced at an event at the Festival Hall.
The books in the running for this year's award range from science fiction to thrillers.
They are: Beast by Ally Kennen; Flash Flood: Code Red by Chris Ryan; Girl Missing by Sophie McKenzie; Jerry Jannans by Elly Brewer; Kiss of Death by Malcolm Rose; Nemesis Into The Shadows by Catherine MacPhail; The Howling Tower by Michael Coleman and The Shapeshifter: Finding the Fox by Ali Sparkes.
Authors will be among those present at Saturday's event.
The award was established in 2005 to encourage young people in Bolton to read for fun and raise literacy standards.
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