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TAPE is an outstanding debut. Told with crackling prose, shimmering with humour and deeply moving, it will haunt anyone who reads it�

The stunningly original new YA novel from renowned spoken word poet Steven Camden - with a dash of Inception and a bit of Jennifer Niven, this is the story of a teen girl and her imaginary friend, and we guarantee you have never read anything like it... Marcie is at a crossroads. Finished with school, but unsure what she wants to do next. Abandoned by her mother when she was tiny - but drifting further and further from her dad. Marcie is real. With real problems. Thor is at a crossroads too. Soon, if he doesn't make a decision, he's gong to face the fade. Years ago, he was Marcie's imaginary friend - then she cast him out, back to his own world. Thor is not real. And that's a real problem... But Marcie and Thor need each other. And to fix their lives, they're going to have to destroy everything... and then build a new world.

A beautiful collection of poems about the highs and lows of one week in a secondary school, where everything happens all at once.Winner of the CLiPPA poetry award.Zooming in across our cast of characters, we share moments that span everything from hoping to make it to the end of the week, facing it, fitting in, finding friends and falling out, to loving lessons, losing it, and worrying, wearing it well and worshipping from afar.In Everything All At Once, Steven Camden's poems speak to the kaleidoscope of teen experience and life at secondary school.'All together. Same place.Same walls. Same space.Every emotionunder the sunFaith lost. Victories won.It doesn't stop. Until the bell.Now it's heavenNow it's hell.Who knows?Not meI just wrote what I can seeSo what's it about? Here's my responseIt's about everythingAll at once.'

Big lies mean big trouble for Jay and his mates. Funny and tender, My Big Mouth, CLiPPA Award-winner Steven Camden's brilliant first novel for readers of 8 to 11, is about friendship, storytelling and the price of being cool. Brilliantly illustrated throughout by Chanté Timothy.‘They think I’m cool.’Dom’s face wrinkled up, ‘Who does? Who cares?’But I did. I cared.When Dad leaves, ten-year-old Jay has questions. Where has he gone? Why did he go? When no one can give Jay the answers he needs, he makes up his own stories, setting off a chain reaction that sees regular old Jay go from just another face in the crowd, to the centre of attention. But being the coolest kid in school comes at a cost. And as things spiral out of control, can the most unlikely person help him learn the most important lesson of all?

Jay and his mates were looking forward to the best summer ever before they become nervous little minnows heading off to senior school learning to swim with the sharks. But when Danny and Dom have to bail, Jay is left facing the long holiday alone, until his mysterious new next door neighbour makes him think hanging out at Summer School might not be such a bad idea after all.Summer School and Cyborgs, the sequel to ClIppa award-winner Steven Camden's funny and tender first novel My Big Mouth, is for readers of 8+ about friendship, growing up and working out who you want to be. Brilliantly illustrated throughout by Chanté Timothy.

Steven Camden is a talented and exceptional wordsmith. Everything he writes is pure gold. — Manjeet MannStand Up Ferren Burke is a funny, warm novel in verse from the CLiPPA award winning poet Steven Camden.Comic collectorVinyl connoiseurAir Jordan enthusiastIn his mind, Ferran Burke is many thingsBut to everyone else he is just one,Emile Burke’s little brotherand Emile is all about himself.Now Ferran is stepping into the new worldof high school aloneand needs to learn quickly how to survive.New allies. New enemies. New feelings. New passions.A time capsule coming-of-age story spanning five years of one boy’s lifeas he navigates the chaos trying to find himself.Friends. Fights. Family. Food.Playing with form and visuals throughoutStand Up Ferran Burke is a verse novelas unique as the boy at its heart.

TAPE is an outstanding debut. Told with crackling prose, shimmering with humour and deeply moving, it will haunt anyone who reads it...Record a voice and it lasts forever...In 1993, Ryan records a diary on an old tape. He talks about his mother's death, about his dreams, about his love for a new girl at school who doesn't even know he exists.In 2013, Ameliah moves in with her grandmother after her parents die. There, she finds a tape in the spare room. A tape with a boy's voice on it - a voice she can't quite hear, but which seems to be speaking to her.Ryan and Ameliah are connected by more than just a tape.This is their story.