Authors Young Adult
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Ann Sei Lin
Ann Sei Lin is a writer, librarian, and book nerd with a love for all things fantasy. Though London is now her home, she spent several years in Chiba, Japan, living in a rickety apartment block next to a rail station where the rush of the midnight train would make the walls shake. When not wri...
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Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah (1958 - 2023): Poet, Musician, Campaigner Benjamin Zephaniah was a performer, musician, actor, and remains one of the UK's best-known poets. Born in Handsworth, Birmingham, Benjamin began writing and performing at the age of 11, and had his first col...
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Catherine Barter
Catherine Barter's We Played with Fire won the Young Quill's Award for historical fiction for her novel, We Played with Fire, which is based on a true story. Her first YA novel, Troublemakers (Andersen Press), was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and was l...
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Samira Ahmed
Samira Ahmed is the bestselling author of Love, Hate and Other Filters and as well as writing, has taught high school English and worked in education non-profits and on political campaigns. Samira was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in Batavia, Illinois, in a house that smelled like...
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Robert Muchamore
Robert Muchamore's new series brings Robin Hood into the 21st century! Robert was inspired to create his bestselling CHERUB series by his nephews' complaints about the lack of anything for them to read! CHERUB: The Recruit was Robert's first book and the seri...
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Namina Forna
Namina Forna was born in Sierra Leone but emigrated with her family to the US in the 1990s, and has been travelling back and forth ever since.Namina has a MFA in film and TV production from USC School of Cinematic Arts and a BA from Spelman...
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Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess is regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature, having won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for his acclaimed novel Junk, whose 25th Anniversary edition has just been published by Andersen Press, together...
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Phil Earle
Phil Earle's new book, While the Storm Rages, is set in London during WWII, and follows Noah on his journey to save the neighbourhood's pets. Phil grew up in Hull and has had a number of jobs including working in pubs and travel agencies, and as a care worker in a residential kids home....
