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Sarah Crossan



Sarah Crossan is Irish. She graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Literature before training as an English and Drama teacher at Cambridge University and worked to promote creative writing in schools before leaving teaching to write full time.

She completed her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick in 2003 and in 2010 received an Edward Albee Fellowship for writing.

She currently lives in NYC.
 

Genres: General Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Romance
 
New and upcoming books
May 2024

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Hey, Zoey
 
Series
Breathe
   1. Breathe (2012)
   2. Resist (2013)
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Novels
   The Weight of Water (2011)
   Apple and Rain (2014)
   One (2015)
   We Come Apart (2017) (with Brian Conaghan)
   Moonrise (2017)
   Being Toffee (2019)
     aka Toffee
   Here is the Beehive (2020)
   Where The Heart Should Be (2024)
   Hey, Zoey (2024)
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Collections
   Tomorrow is Beautiful (poems) (2021)
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Chapter Books show
 
Sarah Crossan recommends
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Northern Soul (2024)
Phil Earle
"I absolutely loved it. It's so sweet, funny, relatable, well paced and original..."
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Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop (2023)
Hwang Bo-reum
"An incredibly exciting debut novel. At once gentle and invigorating. I devoured it."
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Boy 87 (2018)
Ele Fountain
"An original and beautiful written page-turner of a novel."

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Awards
Carnegie Medal Best Book nominee (2013) : The Weight of Water
Carnegie Medal Best Book nominee (2015) : Apple and Rain
Carnegie Medal Best Book winner (2016) : One
YA Book Prize Best Young Adult winner (2016) : One
Costa Children's Book Award Best Book nominee (2017) : Moonrise
YA Book Prize Best Young Adult nominee (2018) : Moonrise


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