Michael Morpurgo's novel Shadow has won this year's Red House children's book award, which is voted for by young readers.
It is a third win for Morpurgo, who becomes the only author to do so in the award's 31-year history.Shadow tells the story of boy who is befriended by an army sniffer dog in Afghanistan.
"Shadow was a difficult book to write because I was writing about a contemporary conflict," Murpurgo said.
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His book, which is partly set at a detention centre for asylum seekers in the UK, was published last September.
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