Hot on the heels of Kim Slater's longlisting for the Carnegie Medal and Polly Ho-Yen’s longlisting for the Branford Boase Award, we are absolutely delighted that Smart and Boy in the Tower have been shortlisted for this prize which champions new and emerging writers for children. We are so proud to share that two of our children’s authors are on the shortlist for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2015! Could it be his mother secretly trying to contact him? Or is there something more sinister going on?īoy in the Tower and Smart shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize! And ever since then his stutter has become almost unbearable.īullied at school and ignored by his father, the only way to get out the words which are bouncing around in his head is by writing long letters to his ma which he knows she will never read, and by playing Scrabble online.īut when Finlay is befriended by an online Scrabble player called Alex, everything changes. Except it isn't funny at all, because there's not a thing I can do about it.'įinlay's mother vanished two years ago. POP! It jumps and ricochets and bounces around my gob. Hilarious, isn't it? It's like the word is there in my mouth, fully formed and then, just as it's ready to leave my lips. I can see OK, can hear perfectly fine and I can write really, really well. ‘That’s one seven letter word I wish didn’t exist. And when there are dangerous secrets everywhere, not just outside, but under your own roof.A Seven Letter Word, the second novel from the multi-award winning Kim Slater is published today by Macmillan Children’s Books. When you're amazing at drawing but terrible at fitting in. It's a good job Kieran's a master of observation, and knows all the detective tricks of the trade.īut being a detective is difficult when you're Kieran Woods. And to his grandma, who just stopped coming round one day. He's going to find out what really happened. He's made a promise, and when you say something out loud, that means you're going to do it, for real. It was only a homeless old man after all. There's been a murder, but the police don't care. He was a homeless man, but he still wanted to live.' 'I found Jean's friend dead in the river. Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Federation of Children's Book Groups Prize and longlisted for the 2015 Carnegie Medal, Kim Slater's outstanding debut, Smart, is moving and compelling novel with a loveable character at its heart.
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