Annal:1980 Whitbread Book Award for Children's Book
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Results of the Whitbread Book Award in the year 1980. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Whitbread Book Award for Children's Book
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors.
- 1980 Whitbread-Children's winner
- Score: 10.3
Young William Jones is on a desperate search through darkest London for John Diamond, the son of a man his father apparently once cheated badly. Will he find him? Originally published in the United States as Footsteps, John Diamond “combines a cast of remarkable eccentrics with superb sensory descriptions” (The Horn Book).
