Simon James Green is an author and screenwriter.
His middle-grade books include Sleepover Takeover (winner of InspiRead 2023), Life of Riley: Beginner’s Luck, which was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award and Finn Jones Was Here, (long listed for UKLA Book Award). He has also written two picture books - Llama Glamarama and Fabulous Frankie - both illustrated by Garry Parsons. His young adult novels include Noah Can’t Even (long listed for the Branford Boase and picked by WHSmith as one of the most important LGBT books of the last 50 years); Noah Could Never; Alex in Wonderland (nominated for the Carnegie medal and selected as one of the top 20 LGBT books of 2019 by Attitude); Heartbreak Boys, (and Indie Next List Pick in the US) You’re the One That I Want (shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, Diverse Book Award, and winner of the Bristol Teen Book Award), Gay Club! (nominated for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2023), and Boy Like Me (nominated for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2024).
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