Moonrise

Author: Crossan, Sarah

Interest age: from c 13 years

Published on 12 July 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury YA) in the United Kingdom.

'Devastating ... Any reader with a heart will weep buckets' - Sunday Times Book of the Week'Impossible to put down' - The Times'An outstanding and daring achievement' - Irish ExaminerSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE YA BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLiPPA AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear?Cos people are gonna be telling youall kinds of lies.

I need you to know the truth.

Joe hasn't seen his brother for ten years, and it's for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row.

But now Ed's execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think ...

From Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan, this poignant, stirring, huge-hearted novel asks big questions. What value do you place on life? What can you forgive? And just how do you say goodbye?Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation...

Don't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Toffee, One, Apple and Rain, and The Weight of Water.