Annal:1992 Carnegie Medal
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Carnegie Medal in the year 1992. This year refers to the publication date. The Medal was awarded the following year (1993).
For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1993 Whitbread-Children's winner
- 1992 Carnegie winner
- 1994 Horn Book-fiction honor
- Score: 26.43
Eleven days into The Great Flour Baby Experiment, the rest of the boys in Room 8—the classroom for underachievers and troublemakers— are ready to drop-kick their six-pound flour “babies” into the creek, but not Simon. He’s keeping his flour baby clean and dry, maintaining its weight, and never, never leaving its side, even if the rest of the class thinks he’s crazy.
Maybe he is. But Simon’s flour baby is helping Simon figure out his own life—why his father walked out on him, and how strong his mother is, raising him alone. In fact, Simon might not be able to…
