{"id":1156,"date":"2014-10-21T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2014-10-22T07:57:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T07:57:14","slug":"mind-blind-nominated-for-2015-carnegie-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/10\/21\/mind-blind-nominated-for-2015-carnegie-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Blind nominated for 2015 Carnegie Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/book\/Lari-Don\/Mind+Blind\/9781782500537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1158 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DonMindBlind1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s always exciting to see the nominations for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk\/pressdesk\/press.php?release=pres_2015_nom_announce_carnegie.html\" target=\"_blank\">CILIP Carnegie Medal<\/a> are announced. But yesterday&#8217;s announcement was a particularly exciting one for us because one of our <a title=\"KelpiesTeen\" href=\"www.kelpiesteen.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">KelpiesTeen<\/a> novels &#8212; <a title=\"Buy Mind Blind from Floris Books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/book\/Lari-Don\/Mind+Blind\/9781782500537\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Blind by Lari Don<\/a> &#8212; has been nominated!<\/p>\n<p>A mind-bending thriller for young teens, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/book\/Lari-Don\/Mind+Blind\/9781782500537\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Blind<\/a> follows 14-year-old Ciaran Bain &#8212; a criminal with a special talent: he can read minds.\u00a0 But his skill comes at a price. He must team up with Lucy, whose sister has been murdered by Ciaran&#8217;s family, in order to uncover a deadly secret in a journey that takes the unlikely duo from London to Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The award winning author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/searchresults.html?keywords=fabled+beast+chronicles\" target=\"_blank\">Fabled Beast Chronicles<\/a>, Lari Don skilfully weaves a fast-paced world of secrets, power and supernatural abilities in her first book for young teens.<\/p>\n<p>The prize is awarded by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), which means that the people doing the judging are actual children&#8217;s librarians who see children reading and enjoying books every day.<\/p>\n<p>The next stage &#8212; the longlist &#8212; will be announced in February, so until then we at Floris HQ all have our fingers crossed for Lari and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/book\/Lari-Don\/Mind+Blind\/9781782500537\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Blind<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always exciting to see the nominations for the CILIP Carnegie Medal are announced. 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A mind-bending thriller for young teens, Mind Blind follows 14-year-old Ciaran Bain &#8212; a criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,68],"tags":[152,167,58,70,168],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-teen-fiction","tag-book-awards","tag-carnegie-medal","tag-kelpiesteen","tag-lari-don","tag-mind-blind","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mind Blind nominated for 2015 Carnegie Medal - Floris Books Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/10\/21\/mind-blind-nominated-for-2015-carnegie-medal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mind Blind nominated for 2015 Carnegie Medal - Floris Books Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s always exciting to see the nominations for the CILIP Carnegie Medal are announced. 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