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Literary Prize: Michelle Paver Wins Guardian Children's Fiction Award

First Posted: 10/08/10 04:38 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:00 PM ET

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The Guardian:

The writer Michelle Paver has won the 2010 Guardian children's fiction prize for the concluding volume of her bestselling Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, Ghost Hunter. Set in an imagined prehistory, the series follows a young boy called Torak, who finds he can communicate with a wolf cub, and becomes his companion.

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