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Robert Westall

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born

January 01, 1929 in North Shields, Northumberland, The United Kingdom

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http://www.robertwestall.com/

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Children's Books, Young Adult

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Robert Westall was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England in 1929.

His first published book The Machine Gunners (1975) which won him the Carnegie Medal is set in World War Two when a group of children living on Tyneside retrieve a machine-gun from a crashed German aircraft. He won the Carnegie Medal again in 1981 for The Scarecrows, the first writer to win it twice. He won the Smarties Prize in 1989 for Blitzcat and the Guardian Award in 1990 for The Kingdom by the Sea. Robert Westall's books have been published in 21 different countries and in 18 different languages, including Braille.

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Average rating: 3.70 · 1,472 ratings · 163 reviews · 67 distinct works

	The Machine-Gunners by Robert Westall, Sophy Williams (Illustrator) 3.77 avg rating — 308 ratings — 16 editions	My rating:
	Blitzcat 3.85 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Kingdom by the Sea 3.97 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1990 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Devil on the Road 4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1978 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Futuretrack 5 3.83 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Cats of Seroster 3.65 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ghost Abbey 3.32 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Watch House 3.39 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Scarecrows 3.59 avg rating — 51 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“He smelt of English sweat and English beer, and it was a good cure for dead faces.”
― Robert Westall, Harvest

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