Annal:2000 Carnegie Medal
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Results of the Carnegie Medal in the year 2000. This year refers to the publication date. The Medal was awarded the following year (2001).
For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2000 Carnegie winner
- 2001 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 2004 YRCA-Intermediate nominee
- 2001 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 24.5
Twelve-year-old Sade’s journalist father is a vocal critic of the corrupt government in Nigeria. When Sade’s mother is murdered, her family sees in bloody detail the violent risks that come with exposing the truth. Her father arranges for Sade and her younger brother to be smuggled to their uncle in London for safety. On the streets of London, the plans fall apart and they are abandoned ...
The Amber Spyglass: Book 3 of His Dark Materials
- 2001 Whitbread-Children's winner
- 2001 WFA–Novel nominee
- 2000 Carnegie shortlist
- 2003 YRCA-Intermediate nominee
- Score: 26.51
Lyra lies sleeping in a cave near a rainbow, drugged into unconsciousness by her mother, Mrs Coulter, whose love for her daughter closely rivals her own ruthless ambition. Now, the latter threatens to overcome the former, as she strives to prevent the events which are dependent on the decisions Lyra is fated to make. Meanwhile, Will - scarred and traumatised after his last, fatal meeting with his father - seeks blindly for her, with only two of Lord Asriel's angels as companions on his dangerous search. The two are fated to meet once more, however, and begin their most treacherous journey..
- 2000 Whitbread-Children's winner
- 2000 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 16.5
Otis Gardiner, the Coram man, makes a vicious living disposing of the unwanted children and illegitimate offspring of distraught young women, rich and poor. Meshak is Otis’s oppressed, simpleminded son, who finally discovers an infant he considers special enough to risk saving out of the hundreds who have succumbed to his father’s brutality. The infant’s father is Alexander Ashbrook, a brilliant young aristocrat disinherited by his family for his devotion to a forbidden career, who is astonishingly unaware that he even has a son, much less that he has abandoned him.
- 2000 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.5
Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.
- 2000 Carnegie shortlist
- 2000 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- Score: 12.5
Erin Law and her friends are Damaged Children. At least that is the label given to them by Maureen, the woman who runs the orphanage that they live in. Damaged, Beyond Repair because they have no parents to take care of them. But Erin knows that if they care for each other they can put up with the psychologists, the social workers, the therapists - at least most of the time. Sometimes there is nothing left but to run away, to run for freedom. And that is what Erin and two friends do, run away one night downriver on a raft.
Shadow of the Minotaur: The Legendeer Trilogy 1
- 2000 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.5
This is a novel about a boy, Phoenix, the son of a computer geek who creates a virtual reality game that gets a bit too real. Phoenix becomes Theseus pursued by the Minotaur, becomes Perseus and confronts the Gorgon, and goes down into the underworld.
- 2001 Horn Book-fiction honor
- 2000 Carnegie shortlist
- 2000 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- 2001 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 22.51
The siege of Troy has lasted almost ten years. Inside the walled city, food is becoming scarce and the death toll is rising. From the heights of Mount Olympus, the Gods keep watch. But Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, is bored with the endless, dreary war, and so she turns her attention to two sisters: Marpessa, who is gifted with God-sight and serves as handmaiden to Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world; and Xanthe, who is kind and loving and tends the wounded soldiers in the Blood Room. When Eros fits an arrow to his silver-lit bow and lets it fly, neither sister will escape its power.
- 2001 Newbery honor
- 2000 Carnegie shortlist
- 2003 YRCA-Intermediate nominee
- Score: 16.51
Thirteen-year-old Sophie is the only girl among the surly crew of her three uncles and two bothersome cousins on a small sailboat bound for England to see her Grandpa Bompie. Through Sophie's and cousin Cody's travel logs, the amazing experiences of these six wanderers and their perilous journey unfold. For Sophie, the true journey is into her past — as she unlocks the pain she has been hiding from herself and learns that she does truly belong to a family.
