North East Book Awards

The NE Teen Book Award (NETBA) was set up in 1999 and the NE Book Award (NEBA) was set up in 2005. The aim of our younger and YA awards remains the same; we want to make our young people more aware of the quality and variety of exciting writing out there, to celebrate and support both established and up and coming authors and to create opportunities for the authors to meet their avid readers.

WINNER 2024

HappyHead

Silver, Josh ISBN: 9780861545537
Paperback / softback

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Squid Game meets They Both Die at the End in the first in a thrilling new YA series.

We are in an epidemic. An epidemic of unhappiness. Friends, here is the good news: HappyHead has the answer. When Seb is offered a place on a radical retreat designed to solve the national crisis of teenage unhappiness, he is determined to change how people see him and make his parents proud. But as he finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Finn, Seb starts to question the true nature of the challenges they must undergo. The deeper into the programme the boys get, the more disturbing the assessments become, until it’s clear there may be no escape...

- Browns Books Synopsis