Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Medal shortlists revealed for 2022
THE shortlists for this year’s Yoto Carnegie Greena- way Medals have been revealed with a total of 16 titles in the running for the UK’s oldest and most prestig- ious children’s book awards.
The awards are unique in that they are judged by chil-
dren’s and young people’s librarians. Winners, along with Shadowers’ Choice winners, will be revealed at a ceremony on 16 June.
Yoto Carnegie Medal Shortlist
The Yoto Carnegie Medal is the longest-running award for children’s and young people’s books in the UK. It cele- brates the best in storytelling and this year will definitely see a new winner, with none of the shortlisted authors having won before.
Jennifer Horan, Chair of Judges for the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards 2022, said: “My fellow judges and I are proud of our sixteen-strong shortlist of books for the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards, which we hope will excite, move and empower the young readers who pick them up, including the thousands shadowing this year’s Awards.
“On a personal level, having been studying the link between children’s literature and empathy for my PhD, I’m thrilled that our Yoto Carnegie shortlist showcases how friendship can help young people find the strength to navigate a path through challenging times.” This year’s Yoto Carnegie Medal shortlist sees real-world events take the stage, with six of the eight shortlisted titles exploring stories from history. Topics covered include the slave rebellion of Tacky’s War, World War II, the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, refugees, the 2011 Japa- nese Tsunami and case of five young men wrongly accused of assault and rape in Central Park.
Making the shortlist for the first time are Katya Balen, Phil Earle and Alex Wheatle, Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam (jointly) and Julian Sedgewick. The final new name for the shortlist is debut novelist Sue Divin.
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock and last year’s Shadowers’ Choice winner, Manjeet Mann, both make the shortlist for the second time. But with no previous winners shortlisted, there is guaranteed to be a new name on the prestigious list of winners.
Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle (Andersen Press, Paperback, ISBN 9781839131127)
Based on the true story of Tacky’s War in Jamaica, 1760, Cane Warrior’s protagonist is 14-year-old Moa, a slave on
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the frontier sugar cane plantation who learns of the upris- ing and becomes a cane warrior fighting for the freedom of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations.
Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock (Faber, Paperback, ISBN 9780571350421)
Set in Alaska and the American West and with a backdrop of a forest fire and a missing girl, these short stories follow teen love, loss, coming of age, grief, abuse, and friendships. The stories relate to the major events in different ways that gradually become apparent.
Guard Your Heart by Sue Divin (Macmillan Children’s Books, Paperback, ISBN 9781529041682) Aidan and Iona were born on the day of the Northern Ireland peace deal. Aidan is Catholic, Irish, and Republican and Iona, Protestant and British. Brought together when Iona witnesses a brutal attack on Aidan, and despite differenc- es and family secrets, there is mutual intrigue, and their friendship grows.
October, October by Katya Balen (Bloomsbury, Paper- back, ISBN 9781526601933)
October lives in the woods with her dad until he is badly injured and she has to move to the city and her estranged mother. Up until then her life had been wild with no school, in London she struggles with the opposite. The story follows her adjustment to a new life.
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusuf Salaam (HarperCollins Children’s Books, Hardcover ISBN 9780062996480)
A novel in verse about 16-year-old Amal Shahid caught up in an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood, and who is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Overcoming despair and rage he finds refuge in his writing, in a system designed to strip him of humanity and truth.
The Crossing by Manjeet Mann (Penguin Children’s Books, Paperback, ISBN 9780241411445) Last year’s Sahdowers’ Choice winner Manjeet Mann returns to the shortlist with this story of Natalie, whose world is falling apart after the death of her mother and her brother’s involvement in far right demonstrations, and Sammie who has arrived in England from Eritrea in
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