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Theresa Breslin


Scotland

aka Maria Palmer

Theresa Breslin is an award-winning Scottish author who is popular with children, librarians and teachers. Her first book, Simon's Challenge, won the Young Book Trust's Fidler Award for new writers and she was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Whispers in the Graveyard.

The Dream Master was shortlisted for the Children's Book Award and Remembrance, a story of youth in World War One, was shortlisted for the South Lanarkshire, the Sheffield, and the North-East Book Awards. Divided City won the North Lanarkshire Children's Book Award in 2006 and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The Medici Seal was nominated for the 2007 Carnegie Medal.
 

Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
 
Series
Kezzie
   1. Kezzie (1993)
   2. A Homecoming for Kezzie (1995)
   3. Kezzie at War (2012)
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Horrorscopes
   1. Sagittarius (1995)
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Dream Master
   The Dream Master (1999)
   Nightmare! (2000)
   Gladiator (2003)
   Arabian Nights (2004)
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Magic Factory
   1. Trick or Treat? (2007)
   2. Cold Spell (2007)
   3. Midsummer Magic (2007)
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Novels
   Simon's Challenge (1988)
   Different Directions (1989)
   A Time to Reap (1992)
   Bullies at School (1993)
   Whispers in the Graveyard (1994)
   Alien Force (1995)
   Death or Glory Boys (1996)
   Blair the Winner (1997)
   Across the Roman Wall (1997)
   Name Games (1997)
   Body Parts (1998)
   Blair Makes a Splash! (1999)
   Starship Rescue (1999)
   Duncan of Carrick (2000)
   New School Blues (2002)
   Remembrance (2002)
   Prisoner in Alcatraz (2004)
   Saskia's Journey (2004)
   The Divided City (2005)
   Mutant (2005)
   The Medici Seal (2006)
   Alligator (2008)
   The Nostradamus Prophecy (2008)
   Prisoner of the Inquisition (2010)
   Spy for the Queen of Scots (2012)
   The Traveller (2013)
   Ghost Soldier (2014)
   Caged (2016)
   The Rasputin Dagger (2017)
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Collections
   Best of Friends (1997) (with others)
   Through Sand, Snow and Steam (2004) (with others)
   Free? (2009) (with others)
   Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales (2012)
   An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Mythical Creatures (2015)
   An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Castle Legends (2019)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
Elsewhere
   1. Here (2012) (with others)
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Plays show
 
Picture Books show
 
Anthologies containing stories by Theresa Breslin

Awards
Carnegie Medal Best Book winner (1995) : Whispers in the Graveyard
Carnegie Medal Best Book nominee (2011) : Prisoner of the Inquisition


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