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Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal (jidō bungaku shō)

Edition 72 (2007)

Children's literatureYoung adultEnglish-language

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Meg Rosoff めぐ・ろそふ Winner

A YA novel that uses emergency preparedness to explore love, death, and the fear of the future with great delicacy. Beneath the light humor, it quietly asks how to accept life itself.

A boy who prepares for everything begins to think about the shape of the future.

272 pages
YAlossfamilylovelife lessons