Theresa Breslin
award winning Scottish Author

Theresa Breslin is a Carnegie Medal winning writer and librarian living in Scotland who is committed to promoting reading and writing to young people and will talk about this to anyone who will listen! Her work, which is in translation in a number of languages, ranges from young readers to young adult/adult and has been filmed for television and dramatised on radio. She is a respected commentator, and contributor to professional journals, on the subject of children’s literacy and youth librarianship.

Simon's Challenge, her first book, won the Young Book Trust Fidler Award for new writers and for Whispers in the Graveyard, her remarkable story about a dyslexic boy, she was awarded the Carnegie Medal. Remembrance, a tale of youth in World War One, was selected for the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults, and New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age. Divided City, a compelling and courageous story of two boys who must find their own way forward in a world divided by difference, has been shortlisted for no fewer than nine awards.

Carnegie Award Winner for Children's Literature

Boys into Books

Divided City and Mutant have been selected by Eileen Armstrong in the DfES funded Boys-Into-Books Project (11-14) supported by the School Library Association.
Note: English Schools are eligible for 20 free books selected from the List.

Divided City   Mutant

Footsteps.
Running
Graham didn’t hear them at first…

 

As Brad went past the Mutant Human Parts Section he rubbed the back of his neck. He knew that the Mutants could never get out of their containers, but he always felt uneasy here.
Brad hurried on.
On the wall behind him a shadow followed…

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