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Maggot Moon

by Sally Gardner

Carnegie Medal · 2013 · Winner
Hot Key BooksScience Fiction & FantasyISBN 9780763665531

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Carnegie Medal for Writing2013Winner

About This Book

In an alternate 1950s Britain under totalitarian rule, dyslexic teenager Standish Treadwell and his best friend Hector uncover a conspiracy around a faked moon landing. Sally Gardner's experimental novel, designed for dyslexic readers, is a blistering fable about truth-telling under tyranny.

About the Author

Sally Gardner is a British author and illustrator known for writing novels that blend the fantastical with historical settings. Her Carnegie Medal-winning Maggot Moon (2013), written with a dyslexic protagonist for dyslexic readers, won widespread critical acclaim for its distinctive narrative voice and typographical design.

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