Annal:1996 Carnegie Medal
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Results of the Carnegie Medal in the year 1996. This year refers to the publication date. The Medal was awarded the following year (1997).
For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1997 Guardian Award winner
- 1996 Carnegie winner
- 1997 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 26.47
When Gemma, a rebellious 14-year-old bored with life in her small seaside town, decides to run away to join her boyfriend Tar in London, the pair are offered shelter in a squat. They meet two heroin addicts and are themselves soon hooked, while Gemma is forced into prostitution to pay for the drug.
- 1996 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.46
Mandy White is a good girl who the bad girls like to pick on. Until a bigger, badder girl makes her her special friend. Tanya is a foster child across the street and she's nothing like good little Mandy. She's fun and she's tough and she wears really cool clothes. Of course, Mandy's overprotective mother wants her precious little daughter to have nothing to do with the new neighbor. But Mandy is growing up and learning a lot about herself and the real world. Like sometimes bad girls are truly terrible bullies. But sometimes, a bad girl can have the best heart and make the best friend.
- 1996 Carnegie shortlist
- 1996 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 12.46
Frankenstein-meets-Pinnochio-meets-Faust in this incredible feat of storytelling. Fritz, the writer, spins a spine-tingling tale to cheer up Karl, the apprentice clockmaker. But rather than helping matters, the story beings to come true….
Johnny and the Bomb: Johnny Maxwell Trilogy 3
- 1996 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.46
An accidental time traveler, Johnny knows his history. He knows England is at war, and he knows that on this day German bombs will fall on the town. It happened. It's history. And as Johnny and his friends quickly discover, tampering with history can have unpredictable —and drastic— effects on the future.
But letting history take its course means letting people die. What if Johnny warns someone and changes history? What will happen to the future? If Johnny uses his knowledge to save innocent lives by being in the right place at the right time, is he doing the right thing?
Mixing nail-biting suspense with outrageous humor, Terry Pratchett explores a classic time-travel paradox in Johnny Maxwell's third adventure.
- 1996 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.46
The final story in a trilogy, following "Wild Child" and "Virtual Sexual Reality". Justine Duval, hopelessly in love with a cyber-junkie goth, is drawn into the Internet and back to 1965, where she is able to glimpse some of what Mummy and Daddy got up to. There are a few shocks in store.
- 1996 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.46
Although the other girls at middle school make fun of Rafaella and she avoids her when they are around, Lucy gradually gets to know her and her "foreign" family and is devastated when she learns the result of all the teasing Rafaella has endured.
- 1996 Whitbread-Children's winner
- 1996 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 16.46
Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers, and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling awful lies. None of this matters to Natalie who finds her exciting, but as Tulip’s games become dangerous, Natalie realises that she is going too far.
- 1996 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.46
While trapped in a cave with one of his fellow students, a longtime enemy, Daniel relives his troubled relationship with his schoolmates.
