Annal:1994 Carnegie Medal
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Results of the Carnegie Medal in the year 1994. This year refers to the publication date. The Medal was awarded the following year (1996).
For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1994 Carnegie winner
- Score: 10.44
Solomon is full of anger — with the teachers and his father who have failed him, with the mother who has left him, and also with himself. He can’t bear to be at school or at home. His refuge is one corner of the church graveyard, where nothing flourishes except a single rowan tree. Then one day, workmen uproot the tree and, as it dies, a terrible force comes to life. Can Solomon find the strength to fight the ancient and evil power that has been unleashed?
A chilling tale of the supernatural from Carnegie Medal–winner Theresa Breslin.
- 1994 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.44
A twelve-year-old boy comes across Arthur Pendragon, who has just awakened from his long sleep beneath the earth, and hears from him some of the exciting stories of his past.
- 1994 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.44
Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots! I'm Elsa, and that's one of my jokes (I tell lots of jokes and I'm going to be a big star one day). I do my best to cheer my family up - but no one seems to laugh much any more. Not since we lost our lovely house and had to move into a bed and breakfast hotel...
- 1994 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.44
This is the sequel to One More River. Time has moved on, it is the 1990s and this is the story of Lesley's Israeli daughter Nilli. The First Intifada is underway and people are being murdered in the streets of Israeli cities. Palestinian anger has overflowed and Mustafa has become a killer, he can see no other way to free his people from Occupation. When Mustafa fails to kill Nilli he becomes a hunted man.
This book brilliantly captures the tragedy and hopelessness that has gripped the region and presents both sides with sympathy and balance. There are so few fictional accounts of the Arab/Israeli conflict that Lynne Reid-Banks splendidly readable and well-researched account fills a gap. The book was short-listed for both the Guardian and the Carnegie Medal when first published in 1994.
- 1994 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.44
Lonely and friendless from constantly moving, Dinah finds herself wishing the animal statues protecting a nearby Welsh castle would keep her company. Suddenly, to Dinah's delight, the stone animals start to magically spring from the walls and follow her home. But when the animals refuse to let Dinah leave her house, she quickly realizes that these mysterious creatures aren't rescuing her, they're imprisoning her. . . .
MapHead: MapHead Trilogy 1
- 1995 Guardian Award winner
- 1994 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 16.45
A dazzlingly original, touching and funny rites-of-passage novel by a multi award-winning author. Powers and his son Boothe, alias MapHead, are visitors from the Subtle World - a world that exists side by side with our own. Now twelve, at the Dawn of Power, MapHead has come to meet his human mother for the first time, making his home on a farm, in a tomato house. Big on Ancient Rome and its chariot races, the young traveller finds modern society bewildering. He can flash up a map of any place across his head, but the rhythms and idioms of human speech are quite alien to him. It is the language of the heart, though, about which he has most to learn if he is truly to find his power.
- 1994 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.44
Ten-year-old Sonny loses his mother in a German bombing raid and his father joins the RAF to avenge her death. He too is killed, leaving Sonny to be cared for by his grandparents. Sonny faces his own confrontation with the enemy and with his mother's ghost, finding eventual reconciliation.
- 1994 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.44
This book is about a little girl called Willa, who moves with her family to a new home, where she meets Old Miss Annie. At first Annie is afraid of the old woman because of her woolly hair and tiny voice and bumpy, twisted hands. But soon they become the best of friends. One of the things that they have in common is a great love of animals, which is at the heart of these three warm and enchanting country tales, featuring respectively a goat, a pony and a fox.
