CILIP’s Carnegie Medal
is awarded each year for an outstanding book for children and young people. The Carnegie
shortlist this year includes eight books, some of which are available now in
the WML and Discovery libraries and the rest are on order.
The shortlist in full:
- When Mr Dog Bites by
Brian Conaghan
- Apple and Rain by Sarah
Crossan
- Tinder by Sally Gardner
- Cuckoo Song by Frances
Hardinge
- The Fastest Boy in the
World by Elizabeth Laird
- Buffalo Soldier by
Tanya Landman
- The Middle of Nowhere
by Geraldine McCaughrean
- More Than This by
Patrick Ness
Two of the authors on the shortlist, Sally Gardner and
Patrick Ness, are past winners of the Carnegie Award, and Chris Riddell, on the
Greenaway shortlist for Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse, is also a past
Carnegie winner. For a list of previous winners visit the Carnegie and Greenaway online living archive.
The themes this year include war, sickness and
adversity and the winners will be announced on 22nd June.
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