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Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 04 May 2001

ISBN 10: 033048270X
ISBN 13: 9780330482707
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years

Author Bio
Robert Westall was born in 1929 on Tyneside, where he grew up during the Second World War. He studied Fine Art and Sculpture, and for many years taught in schools throughout the North of England. His first novel for children. The Machine Gunners won the Carnegie Medal in 1975. He won it again in 1982 for The Scarecrow (the first writer to win the medal twice), the Smarties Prize in 1989 for Blitzcat, and the Guardian Award in 1991 for The Kingdom by The Sea. He died in 1993.