Annal:2002 Carnegie Medal
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Results of the Carnegie Medal in the year 2002. This year refers to the publication date. The Medal was awarded the following year (2003).
For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2002 Carnegie winner
- Score: 10.52
Tiller and Sairy live a quiet life in Ruby Holler; their children have long since left home and they are happy with their routines. Until one day they each decide they want to undertake a big adventure and they need companions to accompany them. And now it gets exciting because they adopt two children from the local orphanage and form an unlikely foursome, for the children cannot believe they are really 'wanted' and Tiller and Sairy have to deal with some pretty unconventional behaviour on the part of the children.
Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori 1
- 2002 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.52
Seventeen-year-old Tomasu lives in a remote mountain village,some of whose residents—including his mother—are members of the Hidden, a clandestine, peaceful religious sect. He has never met his father. One day, while Tomasu is out collecting mushrooms, a band of Tohan warriors descends upon and massacres the village. Tomasu confronts the warriors, but is rescued by the mysterious Lord Otori, who changes the boy's name to Takeo, and wants to adopt him. As Takeo learns to read, and to fight with sword and pole, on and off horseback, he does not realize that he is the center of a bloody intrigue . . . until it is almost too late.
- 2002 Carnegie shortlist
- 2002 Guardian Award shortlist
- Score: 12.52
Having risen to power as chief of his people, the Storn, sixteen-year-old Sigurd leads them as they try to resist the bloodthirsty invaders known as the Dark Horse and makes a shocking discovery about his foster sister Mouse.
- 2002 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.52
Danny is a boy on the edge. A boy teetering on the brink of no return, living in fear. Cathy is his mother. She's been broken by fear. Chris Kane is fear - and they belong to him. But one day they escape. They're looking for freedom, for the promised land where they can start really living. Instead they find prejudice, and danger of another kind.
- 2002 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.52
Faced with the possibility of living with a dreadful aunt, fifteen-year-old Martyn Pig decides not to tell authorities when his alcoholic father dies accidentally, instead asking a friend for her help in disposing of the body.
- 2002 Carnegie shortlist
- 2002 Guardian Award shortlist
- Score: 12.52
Greg's casual interest in the history of a ruined mansion becomes more personal as he slowly discovers the tragic events that overwhelmed its last inhabitants. Set against a background of the modern day and the First World War, Greg's contemporary beliefs become intertwined with those of Edmund, a foot soldier whose confusion about his sexuality and identity mirrors Greg's own feelings of insecurity.
- 2002 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 6.52
How stupid do you have to be to fall out of a top-floor window? Or was Stolly trying something else - up on cloud nine, even then? Stolly has always been so alive, so inspiring, taking risks, hiding nothing, notorious for being the school's most imaginative liar (or fantasist, as he calls it). But now he's lying in a hospital bed and Ian, his best friend who's as close as a brother, is watching, waiting and remembering...
