Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent Catherine Fisher the Carnegie Medal and the

the Carnegie Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Award

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As an Indian from Guyana

Deirdre O'Byrne teaches Irish and English history at Loughborough University and Irish history and the Irish language in Birmingham and Nottingham

Amit Chaudhuri

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent Catherine Fisher the Carnegie Medal and theThe short sighted adolescent is a passionate reader who takes various cultural figures as models, trying to emulate both their lives or their works. The pupil protagonist is a poor student, who likes science and reads a lot of books, sometimes staying up all night to do so. At the age of 15, he decides to write a novel to demonstrate to his teachers that he is not as mediocre as all the other students, and is prepared to give up everything he holds