Dear Nobody is a Carnegie-winning Y/A novel about love and teenage pregnancy, and is my most translated book. When Helen and Chris (17 and 18) find out that she is pregnant, they and their families are deeply shocked, but they have to decide for themselves what to do. TV film.

The Girl Who Saw Lions, first published as Abela, is set in Tanzania and Sheffield. Abela, an HIV/Aids orphan, and Rosa, an only child who lives with her mum, lead very different lives. Abela is smuggled to England as an illegal immigrant, desperately needing love and a home. 11+

Granny was a Buffer Girl, set in industrial Sheffield from the 1930s to the 1980s. Three generations of Jess’s family tell her the heart-breaking and funny family stories that bind them together. Carnegie medal, Boston Globe-Horn Honor. 11+