by Kim Slater
928 Miles from Home is Kim’s third novel for Macmillan Children’s Books.
There’s been a murder, but the police don’t care.
It was only a homeless old man after all.
Kieran cares. He’s going to find out what really happened. To the homeless man. And to his own grandma, who just stopped coming round one day. It’s a good job Kieran’s a master of observation and knows all the detective tricks of the trade. But being a detective is difficult when you’re Kieran Woods. When you’re amazing at drawing but terrible at fitting in. And when there are dangerous secrets everywhere, not just outside, but under your own roof.
That’s one seven-letter word I wish didn’t exist.
Fifty points extra or not.
Scrabble genius Finlay McIntosh is a different lad to the one his mother left behind. One day she was there, the next she was gone. And his dad won’t even mention her name. All Finlay has to remember her by is a bag of letter tiles and an empty journal. Then a chance remark by a mysterious new player he meets online changes everything. Has he stumbled on to a major clue that could help him find his missing mother? Finlay will do whatever it takes to find out the truth. But can he find his voice . . . before it’s too late?
Books by Kim Slater
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A Seven-Letter Word
928 Miles from Home
First published 2017 by Macmillan Children’s Books
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Copyright © Kim Slater 2017
Cover illustration by Helen Crawford-White
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