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Kim Slater is a multi-award winning Nottingham author whose debut YA novel 'SMART' has been nominated for twenty-four book awards, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 15, the Carnegie Medal 15 and the Children's Book Award 16.

'SMART' has now won ten book awards. Her second and third novels, 'A SEVEN LETTER WORD' and '928 MILES FROM HOME' have also been nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2017 & 2018 and shortlisted for numerous children's book awards.

Writing as KL Slater, Kim is also a number one bestselling adult crime thriller writer; click HERE to learn more!

SMART: WINNER OF 10 AWARDS

SMART is WINNER of TEN awards including the Leeds Book Award 15, the St Helen's Book Award (BASH) 15, the Tower Hamlets Book Award 15, the EMBA Geoffrey Trease Children's Book Award 15, The Brilliant Book Award 2016, 1066 Schools Book Award 2016, The Grampian Children's Book Award 2016, the North Herts Schools' Book Award 2016, 'Spellbinding' Dorset Book Award 2016 and 'The Read' Stockport Schools Book Award 2016.

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