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She was born in Somerset and grew up on a farm in the Exmoor region of South West England.
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You'd have to be crazy to make friends with a murderer...When 15-year-old Chas finds a website asking people to write to prisoners on Death Row, he decides it would be funny to get letters from a murderer. He writes to an inmate, pretending to be his mum, but the chilling replies are not what he expects. Chas's own wild escapades land him in a young offender's institute, where he learns that his penpal has been released. And is coming to find him...
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When 16-year-old Lexi is forced to move in with her estranged mother, she thinks she will die of boredom. Yet midnight howlings and regular break-ins convince her otherwise. And when Lexi follows her mother's dog into the woods and discovers the abandoned asylum, it is only too apparent that there is something out there. Something real. Something very shocking indeed. This is the third thrilling teenage novel from award-winning author, Ally Kennen.
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No one has a gran like Ellie and Morris. Gran has red hair, a leather jacket, and she's part of a motorbike gang. When Gran's lodger disappears with her motorbike, Ellie and Morris decide to take matters into their own hands. Find out what happens in this hilarious mystery, written by Carnegie nominee, Ally Kennen and illustrated by Mark Beech. * Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. * Text type: A mystery story
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She was born in Somerset and grew up on a farm in the Exmoor region of South West England.
She studied Archaeology and History at the University of Birmingham.
Some of her books have been marketed as thrillers and they may be classed as horror fiction. Kennen"s first book, Beast, was created during a Master of Arts program in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her fourth book, Sparks, published by Marion Lloyd in 2010, was one of eight books on the longlist for that year"s Guardian Children"s Fiction Prize.
The judges recommended Sparks for readers age 9 and over.
The mission sets them against the adults in the family and against the law. Two years later Kennen made the Guardian Prize longlist again with Bullet Boys, published by Scholastic in 2012 (recommended for ages 14+).
lieutenant had been The Guardian newspaper"s "teen book of the month" for March, initiated by Anthony McGowan"s review and by Kennen"s account, "How I wrote Bullet Boys".
Beast won the 2007 Manchester Book Award. Berserk won a 2008 North East Teenage Book Award. Kennen has been nominated for many other annual book awards. Beast (2006) made shortlists for the Carnegie Medal, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Branford Boase Award, and the Bolton Children"s Book Award Berserk (2007) made the Manchester Book Award shortlist and was nominated for the Carnegie Meda Bedlam (2009) was nominated for the Carnegie Medal (2010) and made shortlists for the Solihull Children"s Book Award, the UKLA, the Salford Children"s Book Award, the Calderdale Children"s Book, and the Stockport Schools Book Award. lieutenant made the Guardian Prize longlist and was nominated for the Carnegie Meda Quarry (2012) made shortlists for the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards, the Grampian Children"s Book Award, and the Leeds Book Awards. lieutenant made the UKLA longlist and was nominated for the Carnegie Meda Bullet Boys (2012) made the 2012 Guardian Prize longlist.
(When 16-year-old Lexi is forced to move in with her estra...)
(You'd have to be crazy to make friends with a murderer......)
(No one has a gran like Ellie and Morris. Gran has red hai...)
