Orphan Monster Spy (Short-Isted For Costa Children'S Book Aw

Description: Sarah has played many roles - but now she faces her most challenging of all. Because there's only one way for a Jewish orphan spy to survive at a school for the Nazi elite. And that's to become a monster like them. They think she is just a little girl. But she is the weapon they never saw coming... with a mission to destroy them all.

Prizes: Short-listed for Costa Children's Book Award 2018.

Author Biography: Matt Killeen was born in Birmingham in the 1970s. After careers in advertising as a copywriter and in music and sports journalism, he completed a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2010, he became a writer for the LEGO (R) Company, leaving after eight years. Orphan Monster Spy is his first novel and was inspired, in part, by the young female SOE agents of WW2. He lives near London and now writes full-time.