Crossing the Line Winner of the Yoto Carnegie Shadowers'' Choice Award

About the author

Tia Fisher writes books for the rebel inside her. She spent her youth desperate to escape the boredom of a tiny village in Norfolk, writing poems of love and rebellion and reading indiscriminately through the shelves of the local library.

After being expelled from boarding school and dropping out of university, Tia had a bewildering variety of jobs - from TV presenter to ESOL teacher to artists' model - before finding her happy place working in libraries and writing stories. In her fifties she went back to university, and is now the proud owner of a master's degree in writing for young people. She recently moved back to Norwich and now she loves it.

Tia's debut teen verse novel, Crossing the Line, was the winner of the 2024 Yoto Carnegie Shadowers' Choice Medal and the UKLA 11-14+ prize, and is in the 2024 Reading for Empathy collection. In 2026 Piccadilly Press will publish Tia's debut middle-grade story, Operation Doodlebug, which is set in World War Two.

Tia's website is at tiafisher.com. Tia's socials can be found at linktr.ee/tiafisherwrites.

Summary

'Do you feel safe?' A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. For fans of PUNCHING THE AIR and SPLINTERS OF SUNSHINE.

Foreword

'Do you feel safe?' A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. For fans of PUNCHING THE AIR and SPLINTERS OF SUNSHINE. Winner of the Yoto Carnegie Shadowers' Choice Award 2024.

Product details

• Authors: Tia Fisher
• Publisher: Hot Key Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.03.2023
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age
• EAN: 9781471413049
• ISBN: 978-1-4714-1304-9
• Pages: 368
• Age Recommendation: from age 13
• Subjects: Safety, Violence, Teenagers, Class, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Bullying, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Violence, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Loners & Outcasts, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Lifestyles / City & Town Life, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Class Differences, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Siblings, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Peer Pressure, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Death & Dying, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Novels in Verse, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / New Experience, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Law & Crime, Parents, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Parents, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Assimilation, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Values & Virtues, Poverty, Boys, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Homelessness & Poverty, Carnegie Medal, Emotions, Race, Lies, Pandemic, HOPE, growing up, Help, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Bereavement, threat, Personal & social issues: siblings (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: New baby, Father, grief, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Sports & Recreation / Track & Field, stealing, Abuse, nomination, siblings, resentment, peer pressure, Carnegie winner, Truancy, verse novel, times children's book of the year