Mostly Book Talk
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Mostly Book Talk
Episode 29 - Carnegie Medal Chat and Predictions
We are joined by Alison Jewitt a teacher from South London who leads a Carnegie Shadowing Group at her school and Sophia Bower a school librarian from Durham who is a Carnegie judge this year.
We talk about shadowing groups and then all of the books on the Carnegie Medal for Writing shortlist. Sophia then hides while the rest of us make our predictions about who wins - we were completely wrong last year, can we do better this year?
Carnegie Medal Short Listed Books
All That it Ever Meant, Blessing Musariri
Glasgow Boys, Margaret McDonald
King of Nothing, Nathanael Lessore
Little Bang, Kelly McCaughrain
Play, Luke Palmer
The Final Year, Matt Goodfellow
The Things we Leave Behind, Clare Furniss
Treacle Town, Brian Conaghan