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Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal (jidō bungaku shō)

Edition 75 (2010)

Children's literatureYoung adultEnglish-language

Winners

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Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman にーる・げいまん Winner

A fantastical coming-of-age story in which a baby who loses his family is raised by ghosts in a graveyard and later faces danger in the world beyond.

A graveyard becomes a child’s home.

304 pages
fantasyorphanghostsgrowing upadventure