Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Ruta Sepetys also make shortlist, while children’s laureate Chris Riddell is nominated for Kate Greenaway illustration medal

As school begins to wind up, we’ve got the whole heady summer ahead of us. Here are Liz Flanagan’s recommended YA summery reads, from Meg Rosoff’s How I live Now to Kevin Brooks’ Black Rabbit Summer

Every year since 2008 a famous children’s author has given a special talk at Homerton College in Cambridge to celebrate children’s and teen literature. This year the author of How I Live Now delivered a spellbinding session, and it was so good we wanted to share it with you, so watch and enjoy

The Book Doctor goes right back to beginnings of YA and teen fiction in the 1950s and 1960s to investigate whether author age has anything to do with reader experience