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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLiPPA AWARD 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019
‘Devastating … Any reader with a heart will weep buckets’ Sunday Times Book of the Week
They think I hurt someone. But I didn’t.
You hear?
Cos people are gonna be telling youall kinds of lies. I need you to know the truth. Joe hasn’t seen his brother for ten years, and it’s for the most brutal of reasons.
Ed is on death row. But now Ed’s execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think …
From one-time winner and two-time Carnegie Medal shortlisted author Sarah Crossan, this poignant, stirring, huge-hearted novel asks big questions.
What value do you place on life? What can you forgive? And just how do you say goodbye?
Sara Scott (verified owner) –
Such a wonderful read – I feel quite broken now that I have finished. Written in free verse it packs such a heartbreaking story into a fairly small amount of words yet conveys so much. I will be thinking about this for a long time. Sarah Crossan is very talented and someone I need to read more of! Here is the Beehive is also excellent.