Shortlisted for the St Helen’s Libraries Book Awards (BASH) 2015 Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award 2015 Shortlisted for the Shropshire Teenage Book Award 2015 Longlisted for Carnegie Medal 2015Īnd Boy in the Tower has been nominated for: In addition to this fantastic shortlisting, Smart has been nominated for the following awards: The winners in all categories will be announced at Waterstones Piccadilly on 26th March. The shortlist was described by Waterstones MD James Daunt as ‘exciting, imaginative and beautiful’. Smart has been selected in the Teen category and Boy in the Tower has been selected in the 5-12 category, both alongside five other fantastic books. 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. A Seven Letter Word, the second novel from the multi-award winning Kim Slater is published today by Macmillan Children’s Books.

Smart by kim slater