Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal (jidō bungaku shō)
Edition 38 (1973)
Children's literatureYoung adultEnglish-language
Winners
1 peopleThe 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