| 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. |
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