Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Medal for Writing | 2014 | Winner |
About This Book
Sixteen-year-old Linus is lured off the street and wakes in a bunker with five other strangers, all watched by an unseen captor. Told in diary form, Kevin Brooks's controversial Carnegie winner offers no redemption—only escalating horror and nihilistic honesty about powerlessness.
About the Author
Kevin Brooks is a British author of young adult fiction known for his darkly realistic portrayals of adolescent life. His novel The Bunker Diary (2014) won the Carnegie Medal despite considerable controversy over its bleak, unresolved ending, reigniting debate about the appropriate darkness of children's literature.
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