Maggot Moon (for which she won the Carnegie Medal)
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Maggot Moon is a dystopian young adult novel by Sally Gardner that follows a dyslexic boy uncovering a sinister government conspiracy in an alternate 1950s-style totalitarian state.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Sally Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Carnegie Medal
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Carnegie Medal for Children’s Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
courage
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friendship ⓘ government conspiracy ⓘ oppression ⓘ resistance ⓘ totalitarianism ⓘ truth and propaganda ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print book ⓘ |
| hasIllustrationsBy | Julian Crouch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacterAgeGroup | teenager ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacterTrait | outsider ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
brainwashing
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individual vs state ⓘ space race ⓘ state violence ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| intendedReadingLevel | upper middle grade and young adult ⓘ |
| intendedUse | children’s and young adult literature curricula ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryAwardCategory | children’s and young adult fiction ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
allegorical
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sparse prose ⓘ |
| marketedAs | YA dystopian novel ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | short, numbered chapters ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayal of a dyslexic protagonist
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unconventional chapter structure ⓘ |
| pageCount | about 288 pages ⓘ |
| protagonist | Standish Treadwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistCharacteristic | dyslexic ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| publisher | Hot Key Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingDescription | alternate 1950s-style totalitarian state ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1950s-style era ⓘ |
| settingType | alternate history ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young adults ⓘ |
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Sally Gardner (children's writer)
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