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Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal (jidō bungaku shō)

Edition 40 (1975)

Children's literatureYoung adultEnglish-language

Winners

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Robert Westall ろばーと うぇすたる Winner

A children's novel in which a group of children find a machine gun after an air raid and hide it while confronting wartime reality.

A children's secret turns into a wartime confrontation.

192 pages
World War IIchildrenwarhistorical fiction