Awards & Commendations
The Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week.
Winner The FCBG Award for Older Readers 2025
Winner Trinity Schools Book Award 2025
North East Book Awards Book of the Month
Runner-up Ealing Teen Read 2025
Longlisted Berkshire Book Awards 2025
Longlisted Buckinghamshire Book Awards
Shortlisted Warwickshire Teen Book Award 2024
Shortlisted Peters Children’s Book of the Year 2025
Shortlisted Lancashire Book of the Year 2025
Shortlisted North East Book Awards
Selected for the Nottingham City of Literature campaign
The Sunday Times’ Children’s Book of the Week
Longlisted UK Literacy Association Award 2023
North East Book Award Highly Commended 2023
Northgate Library Book of the Month
Chosen for the Empathy Collection 2023
The Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week
Nominated the CILIP Carnegie PRIZE 2021
Longlisted UKLA Book Awards 2021
Shortlisted Redbridge Children’s book Award 2021
Part of Empathy Lab’s Read for Empathy Collection 2022
Shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year 2019.
Winner Sheffield Children’s Book Award YA category 2019.
The Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week.
Winner Redbridge Children’s Book Award 2019.
Nominated The CILIP Carnegie Prize 2019
Longlisted Branford Boase Award 2019
Shortlisted Bristol Teen Book Award 2019.
Shortlisted The Southern Schools Book Award.
World Book Night Title 2019.