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Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal (jidō bungaku shō)

Edition 36 (1971)

Children's literatureYoung adultEnglish-language

Winners

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Ivan Francis Southall あいゔぁん さうさる Winner

Josh follows a fourteen-year-old poet whose week in rural Australia turns tense and unsettling.

A quiet visit becomes a pressure-filled coming-of-age test.

215 pages
Australiacoming of ageisolationpoetry