And when there are dangerous secrets everywhere, not just outside, but under your own roof. 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. Kim Slater honed her storytelling skills as a child, writing macabre tales specially designed to scare her younger brother A self-employed education-budget manager across several Nottinghamshire inner-city schools, she gained a first-class honours degree in English and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University at the age of forty and.
Plucked from obscurity to be the face of a high-profile fashion advertising campaign. It tells the story of Harriet Manners, a socially awkward 15 year old English girl with a limited circle of friends, a (now) super model boyfriend and who is the target of the school bully. For ages 14 and up.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. Geek Girl is the debut novel of Holly Smale. While there is much hope here, ultimately it is a very troubling novel I think older readers looking to move away from the popular, other-worldly books filling the shelves at the moment will find this a thought-provoking read. Domestic violence, drug trafficking, homelessness, bullying and Autism are all major subjects, making this an interesting book to discuss with young adults. Pan Macmillan, 2015 - Childrens stories - 256 pages. Smart tackles many issues very relevant to today’s society. But Kieran would never have guessed that his own horrible home life could become entwined with the case of a murdered homeless man. Kieran goes about questioning Colin’s fellow homeless folk regarding the sorts of people Colin associated with, sketching in his notebook and slowly piecing together the evidence. He believes the homeless man was murdered, and he is adamant that he is going to solve the mystery. It’s a local homeless man, Colin, whom police believe simply fell in the river and drowned, though really, they don’t care what has happened to him. It all starts when Kieran finds a body in the river.
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