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Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal (jidō bungaku shō)

Edition 38 (1973)

Children's literatureYoung adultEnglish-language

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Penelope Lively ぺねろーぷ らいゔりー Winner

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe follows a boy haunted by the ghost of a seventeenth-century sorcerer who wants him as an apprentice.

A ghostly apprenticeship turns everyday life uncanny.

160 pages
ghostsmagicchildhoodhorror