Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal (jidō bungaku shō)
Edition 36 (1971)
Children's literatureYoung adultEnglish-language
Winners
1 peopleJosh 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