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Name
  
Lesley Howarth

Role
  
Author

Nominations
  
Carnegie Medal


Awards
  
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

Books
  
Weather Eye, MapHead, The Flower King, Carwash, The Pits

Profiles

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Lesley Howarth (born 29 December 1952) is a British author of children's and young adult fiction. For the novel Maphead, published by Walker Books in 1994, she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a runner-up for the Carnegie Medal.

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Howarth was born in Bournemouth, England.

Reviewers including Philip Pullman have remarked upon Howarth's ability to "humanize" highly technical or unusual subjects, a tendency which she calls "the romance of hard things".

Works

  • The Flower King (1993)
  • MapHead (1994)
  • Weather Eye (1995)
  • The Pits (1996)
  • Fort Biscuit (1996), illustrated by Ann Kronheimer
  • Welcome to Inner Space (1997)
  • MapHead 2 (1997); US title, Maphead: the return
  • Quirx : The Edge of the World (1998)
  • Bad Rep (1998), illus. Mark Oliver
  • Paulina (1999)
  • Yamabusters (1999)
  • The Squint (1999), illus. Jeff Cummins
  • Aliens for Dinner (1999)
  • Mister Spaceman (2000)
  • I Managed a Monster (2000)
  • No Accident (2000)
  • Ultraviolet (2001)
  • Carwash (2002)
  • Dade County's Big Summer (2002)
  • Drive (2004)
  • Colossus (2004)
  • Calling the Shots (2006)
  • Bodyswap: The Boy Who Was 84 (2009)
  • Tales from the Sick Bed (London: Catnip, 2009), as by L. P. Howarth
    • Tales from the Sick Bed: Brainstorms Tales from the Sick Bed: Fever Dreams Tales from the Sick Bed: The Medicine Chest
  • Swarf (2010)

    • Awards

  • 1995 Guardian Children's Fiction Award for MapHead
  • 1995 Carnegie Medal highly commended runner-up for MapHead
  • 1995 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Ages 9–11 for Weather Eye (Joint Winner)

    • Howarth has also been shortlisted for numerous literary awards.

    References

    Lesley Howarth Wikipedia
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