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The Scarecrows is a young-adult novel by Robert Westall, published by Chatto & Windus in 1981. It is a psychological novel with a supernatural twist, featuring a thirteen-year-old boy's reaction to his mother's courtship and remarriage six years Read More..

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Description	The Scarecrows is a young-adult novel by Robert Westall, published by Chatto & Windus in 1981. It is a psychological novel with a supernatural twist, featuring a thirteen-year-old boy's reaction to his mother's courtship and remarriage six years after his father's death. It deals with themes of rage, isolation and fear. Beside the inner themes, it "tells of a boy and his family brought to the brink of destruction by sinister external forces" and it may be called a ghost story. Its U.S. Library of Congress Subject Headings are remarriage, stepfathers, and horror stories.Westall and The Scarecrows won the annual Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Thus he became the second writer with two such honours, having won the 1975 Medal for The Machine Gunners.William Morrow and Company published the U.S. edition under its Greenwillow Books imprint within the calendar year.
Description	The Scarecrows is a young-adult novel by Robert Westall, published by Chatto & Windus in 1981. It is a psychological novel with a supernatural twist, featuring a thirteen-year-old boy's reaction to his mother's courtship and remarriage six years after his father's death. It deals with themes of rage, isolation and fear. Beside the inner themes, it "tells of a boy and his family brought to the brink of destruction by sinister external forces" and it may be called a ghost story. Its U.S. Library of Congress Subject Headings are remarriage, stepfathers, and horror stories.Westall and The Scarecrows won the annual Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Thus he became the second writer with two such honours, having won the 1975 Medal for The Machine Gunners.William Morrow and Company published the U.S. edition under its Greenwillow Books imprint within the calendar year.

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Name	The Scarecrows
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Authors	Robert Westall
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Genre	Children's supernatural fiction , psychological novel , ghost story
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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Pages	159 pp (first edition)
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Media_type	Print (hardcover & paperback)
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Isbn	070112556X
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Oclc	8046301
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Publisher	Chatto & Windus
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