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.
Selected Bibliography: A Homecoming For Kezzie, Across The Roman Wall, Blair Makes A Splash, Blair, The Winner!, Bodyparts, Bullies At School, Death Or Glory Boys, Different Directions, The Dream Master, Duncan Of Carrick, Kezzie, Missing, Name Game, New School Blues, Prisoner in Alcatraz, Remembrance, Saskia's Journey, Starship Rescue, Time To Reap.
www.theresabreslin.co.uk/
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