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Sarah Crossan Books in Order

Find Sarah Crossan books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and advice on where to begin with her verse novels, adult fiction, and children's books.

Last updated: July 14, 2026

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Breathe

by Sarah Crossan

2012

In a future where oxygen is rationed, privileged Quinn, struggling Bea, and rebel Alina are forced outside their sealed city. With only limited air and a dangerous journey ahead, each must question the system that keeps them alive.

The Weight of Water

by Sarah Crossan

2012

Kasienka and her mother leave Poland for England to find the father who abandoned them. New school, cramped living, and loneliness make the move hard, until swimming and a new friendship help Kasienka find her footing.

Resist

by Sarah Crossan

2013

After the resistance is broken apart, Quinn, Bea, and Alina cross a devastated world in search of Sequoia, a rumored rebel refuge. Pursued by an elite force, they must survive long enough to decide what they are still fighting for.

Apple and Rain

by Sarah Crossan

2014

When Apple's mother returns after eleven years away, Apple hopes her family can finally be whole. Then she meets Rain, the younger sister she never knew existed, and begins to see her mother's return in a different light.

One

by Sarah Crossan

2015

Conjoined twins Grace and Tippi begin high school after years of being taught at home. As friendship, first love, and financial strain reshape their world, the sisters face a life-changing decision about identity, independence, and their bond.

Moonrise

by Sarah Crossan

2017

Seventeen-year-old Joe goes to Texas to see the brother he has not known for a decade. With Ed's execution approaching, Joe must face family history, public judgment, and the painful question of whether forgiveness depends on certainty.

We Come Apart

by Sarah Crossan

2017

Jess and Romanian immigrant Nicu meet while serving community punishment in North London. Their growing connection offers relief from violent homes, prejudice, and family demands, but both know safety and a future together may be hard to reach.

Being Toffee

by Sarah Crossan

2019

After fleeing an abusive home, Allison hides in the shed of a woman named Marla, who has dementia and mistakes her for an old friend called Toffee. Their uneasy refuge becomes a search for safety, family, and a truthful self.

Fizzy and Bandit

by Sarah Crossan

2020

Fizzy Pop wants a dog more than anything, especially one with golden curls and a black nose. When neighbor Mrs Crumbleboom has a dog who fits the description, Fizzy's determined plan to bring Bandit home creates comic trouble.

Here Is the Beehive

by Sarah Crossan

2020

Ana's three-year affair with Connor ends when he dies suddenly, leaving her with grief she cannot publicly claim. Desperate for someone who understands, she reaches toward Connor's widow, Rebecca, and enters a fraught new kind of intimacy.

Fizzy and the Party

by Sarah Crossan

2021

It is bedtime, but Fizzy can hear Mrs Crumbleboom's party next door and wants to join in. Armed with her dress-up box and plenty of persistence, Fizzy tries to persuade Mum that staying up is the only sensible choice.

Tomorrow is Beautiful

by Sarah Crossan

2021

This poetry collection gathers classic and contemporary poems chosen to offer calm, hope, and companionship. With notes from Sarah Crossan and space to respond, it invites readers to slow down and find words for difficult days.

Where The Heart Should Be

by Sarah Crossan

2023

In famine-stricken Ireland in 1846, scullery maid Nell works in the Big House while her own family faces hunger. Her unexpected bond with Johnny, the English heir, brings hope and danger as the crisis worsens around them.

Hey, Zoey

by Sarah Crossan

2024

Dolores O'Shea is already carrying a strained marriage, a demanding life, and concern for her mother when she discovers Zoey, her husband's AI sex doll. Talking to Zoey unsettles Dolores and forces her to confront what she wants.

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Gone for Good

by Sarah Crossan

2026

Connie Ryder is sent to Silver Lake Academy, a remote, high-security facility for troubled teenagers. When she learns she has taken the bed of a missing girl named Belle, Connie begins uncovering the school's frightening secrets.

Where to start with Sarah Crossan

For a first taste of her verse novels: The Weight of WaterApple and RainOne
For family stories with high emotional stakes: OneMoonriseBeing Toffee
For a dystopian adventure: BreatheResist
For adult psychological fiction: Here Is the BeehiveHey, Zoey
For historical fiction: Where The Heart Should Be

Sarah Crossan sub-series and character series

Breathe books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Breathe"

    Breathe

    by Sarah Crossan

    2012Breathe, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Resist"

    Resist

    by Sarah Crossan

    2013Breathe, Book 2

Breathe books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Breathe"

    Breathe

    by Sarah Crossan

    2012Breathe, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Resist"

    Resist

    by Sarah Crossan

    2013Breathe, Book 2

Sarah Crossan collections, short stories, and related book types

Chapter Books

  1. Book cover for "Fizzy and Bandit"

    Fizzy and Bandit

    by Sarah Crossan

    2020
  2. Book cover for "Fizzy and the Party"

    Fizzy and the Party

    by Sarah Crossan

    2021

Standalone Sarah Crossan books

  1. Book cover for "The Weight of Water"

    The Weight of Water

    by Sarah Crossan

    2012
  2. Book cover for "Apple and Rain"

    Apple and Rain

    by Sarah Crossan

    2014
  3. Book cover for "One"

    One

    by Sarah Crossan

    2015
  4. Book cover for "Moonrise"

    Moonrise

    by Sarah Crossan

    2017
  5. Book cover for "We Come Apart"

    We Come Apart

    by Sarah Crossan

    2017
  6. Book cover for "Being Toffee"

    Being Toffee

    by Sarah Crossan

    2019
  7. Book cover for "Here Is the Beehive"

    Here Is the Beehive

    by Sarah Crossan

    2020
  8. Book cover for "Tomorrow is Beautiful"

    Tomorrow is Beautiful

    by Sarah Crossan

    2021
  9. Book cover for "Where The Heart Should Be"

    Where The Heart Should Be

    by Sarah Crossan

    2023
  10. Book cover for "Hey, Zoey"

    Hey, Zoey

    by Sarah Crossan

    2024
  11. Book cover for "Gone for Good"

    Gone for Good

    by Sarah Crossan

    2026

Author bio

Sarah Crossan grew up in Dublin and London. She studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick, completed a master's degree in Creative Writing, and later trained as an English and drama teacher at the University of Cambridge.

Teaching was her day job for a decade, in both England and the United States. It gave her a close view of the worries, jokes, friendships, and pressures that shape young people's lives, details that would later find their way into her fiction.

She kept writing alongside that work. In 2010, Crossan received an Edward Albee Fellowship, and by 2012 she had become a full-time writer. Her early books quickly established her as an author drawn to spare, direct storytelling, often told in verse.

Her first novel, The Weight of Water, follows Kasienka, a Polish girl trying to settle in England while her mother searches for the father who left them. It is a quiet story about immigration, loneliness, swimming, and finding a way to belong. Apple and Rain returns to family upheaval, as a teenager's long-absent mother comes back into her life with a younger daughter in tow.

Crossan's books make room for big feelings without making them simple.

That approach is especially clear in One, her novel about conjoined twins Grace and Tippi. The sisters want friends, love, privacy, and the chance to be understood as two separate people, even as their lives are physically intertwined. The book won the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the CBI Book of the Year Award, the YA Book Prize, and the CLiPPA Poetry Award in 2016.

She has also written outside realistic contemporary fiction. Breathe and Resist imagine a future where breathable air is scarce and controlled by a powerful system. In Moonrise, a teenager reconnects with his brother on death row. We Come Apart, written with Brian Conaghan, follows two vulnerable teenagers in North London whose growing bond is tested by violence, prejudice, and family pressure.

Her later work has moved across age groups and forms. Toffee, published in the United States as Being Toffee, follows a runaway girl who finds shelter with an older woman living with dementia. Her first adult novel, Here Is the Beehive, explores secret grief after an affair ends in sudden loss. Hey, Zoey turns to a strained marriage and an unexpected AI companion, while Where The Heart Should Be is set during the Irish famine.

For younger readers, Crossan wrote the warm, funny Fizzy stories, beginning with Fizzy and Bandit. She also edited Tomorrow is Beautiful, a collection of poems chosen to offer comfort, hope, and a pause from the noise of daily life.

Crossan's work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives and works in East Sussex, and continues to write books that take young people, families, and complicated choices seriously.

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