The Fire-Eaters

The Fire-Eaters

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name = The Fire-Eaters


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author = David Almond
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Children's
publisher = Hodder Children's Books
pub_date = August 14, 2003
pages = 224 pp
isbn = ISBN 978-0340773826
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"The Fire-Eaters" is a children's novel by David Almond, published in 2003. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award, [ [http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/nestle/ Nestlé Children's Book Prize] ] [ [http://www.costabookawards.com/ Costa Book Awards] ] as well as being shortlisted for both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal. [ [http://books.guardian.co.uk/guardianchildrensprize2003/0,,989688,00.html Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2003] ] [ [http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/ The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards] ]

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