Gr 9 Up-Niku is a Romanian immigrant who is constantly bullied by his classmates. His novels include The Boy Who Made it Rain, published in 2011, When Mr Dog Bites which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2015, attracted both praise and controversy for its honest, moving and humorous depiction of a teenage boy with Tourette's syndrome and The Bombs That Brought Us Together, published in 2016 to critical acclaim. For many years Brian worked as a teacher and taught in Scotland, Italy and Ireland. He has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow.
Brian Conaghan was born and raised in the Scottish town of Coatbridge but now lives in Dublin. Since completing a masters in creative writing, she has been working to promote creative writing in schools. She received the 2016 CILIP Carnegie Medal for her astonishing novel One, which also won the YA Book Prize,CBI Book of the Year Award and the CliPPA Poetry Award. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at Cambridge University. Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London and New York, and now lives in Hertfordshire.
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