Thunder and Lightnings

Jan Mark (1943-2006) was a British author renowned for her children's and young adult literature, winning the Carnegie Medal twice—for Thunder and Lightnings (1976) and Handles (1983)—among over fifty novels, plays, and short stories she produced after leaving teaching in 1974. Here. Her works featured acutely observed stories of ordinary children and imaginative science fiction, earning additional accolades like the Observer Teenage Fiction Prize for Aquarius (1982).