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Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal (jidō bungaku shō)

Edition 64 (1999)

Children's literatureYoung adultEnglish-language

Winners

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Aidan Chambers えいだん・ちぇんばーす Winner

Postcards from No Man's Land follows a young man in Amsterdam whose present-day visit folds into a wartime family story.

Two timelines uncover what family has kept buried.

320 pages
coming of ageWorld War IIfamily historyAmsterdam