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Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal (jidō bungaku shō)

Edition 89 (2024)

Children's literatureYoung adultEnglish-language

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Joseph Coelho じょせふ こえーりょ Winner

This verse novel braids the myth of Theseus with a modern boy’s search for his father. Myth, family, and ideas of masculinity intersect throughout.

Mythic labyrinths meet the confusion of a modern family.

320 pages
verse novelmythfather and soncoming of age