Redbridge Children’s Book Award (Teenage)
News
I Have No Secrets has made the top ten for the FCBG Children’s Book Award!
I am honoured and thrilled that I Have No Secrets is one of three books selected in the ‘Older Reader’ age group – and that the selection for this award and voting is by young people themselves.
Award Update!
I Have No Secrets has been shortlisted for the Amazing Book Awards (Sussex!)
That makes 6 shortlists, 2 longlists and the Carnegie Nomination!
World Book Day Choice!
Thrilled that ‘I Have No Secrets’ has been selected as one of 5 books for teenagers for World Book Day!
January 2018: Nine Award Nominations for ‘I Have No Secrets’!
I am delighted that ‘I Have No Secrets’ has now been nominated for nine awards for 2018 – five shortlists (Leeds, Worcestershire, Wandsworth, Doncaster, Lewisham), three long lists – (ABA (Sussex), Redbridge and Lancashire) and the Carnegie Nomination!
Worc Teen Book Award Shortlist below!
‘I Have No Secrets’ has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2018!
‘I Have No Secrets’ has been shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award!
Excited to announce 11 to 14 LeedsBA18 shortlist #LoveyourSLS @BethellZillah @alicecrumbs @TomEaston @pennyjoelson @EMRLaird @scarthomas @leedslibraries pic.twitter.com/jNbTVvm8Gb
— Leeds SLS (@LeedsSLS) November 22, 2017
A visit to the printer
I was privileged to be able to visit CPI Printers and see my books actually being printed! Wow! It was one of the most amazing days of my life.

Here’s the book on the press!
Still on a high after yesterday’s trip to @CPIbooksUK to see #IHaveNoSecrets. @EMTeenFiction printed! pic.twitter.com/UQ8DGPbeFJ
— Penny Joelson (@pennyjoelson) March 8, 2017
I Have No Secrets chosen for the 2017 Summer Reading Challenge!
The Reading Agency have announced their Top Ten Volunteer Reads for summer 2017 and I Have No Secrets is on the list! Here’s what they say:
These are the books we’ll be recommending to the young volunteers supporting the Summer Reading Challenge later this year. Look out for competitions, author interviews and hack ideas too!
The final selection has everything from compulsive thrillers and ancient Norse myths to poetry on the football pitch and out-of-this world romance… As Skipton Reading Hackers described it; “There’s a lot of queer, a lot of strong females and a lot of death… Brilliant!”
Booked (Kwame Alexander)
Moondust (Gemma Fowler)
The Edge of Everything (Jeff Giles)
The One Memory of Flora Banks (Emily Barr)
I Have No Secrets (Penny Joelson)
One of Us is Lying (Karen M. McManus)
Orangeboy (Patrice Lawrence)
The Otherlife (Julia Gray)
Unboxed (Non Pratt)
Like Other Girls (Claire Hennessy)
You’ll find these books in libraries across the UK during the Summer Reading Challenge 2017.
World Book Day 2017 – 2nd March
And Michael Grant’s £1 World Book Day book ‘Dead of Night’ contains a 12 page extract from ‘I Have No Secrets’. Read it for a sneak preview!