Author

Sally Gardner

3 award wins, 3 nominations across 4 books.

Sally Gardner grew up and still lives in London. Being dyslexic, she did not learn to read or write until she was fourteen and had been thrown out of several schools, labeled unteachable, and sent to a school for maladjusted children. Despite this, she gained a degree with highest honors at a leading London art college, followed by a scholarship to a theater school, and then went on to become a very successful costume designer, working on some notable productions.

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I, Coriander

1 Award Won

280 pages

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Maggot Moon

2 Awards Won1 Nomination

279 pages

"An unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing. What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know.

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The Red Necklace

1 Nomination

Published 2007-10-04 · 378 pages

An exciting, romantic novel set against the feverish backdrop of the French Revolution.Clever and head-turningly attractive, fourteen-yearold Yann is an orphan who has been raised in Paris by Tetu, a dwarf with secrets he has yet to reveal to the gypsy boy. It's the winter of 1789, and the duo have been working for a vain magician named Topolain. On the night when Topolain's vanity brings his own death, Yann's life truly begins. That's the night he meets shy Sido, an heiress with an ice-cold father, a young girl who has only known loneliness until now.

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Tinder

1 Nomination
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Awards & Nominations
Carnegie Medal
2015
Nominee