Aster's Good, Right Thing
ISBN: 9780648492573
Australian: Yes
Published: 2020 by Yellow Brick Books
Level: Middle Years (6-9)
CBCA Shortlist 2021. Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesn't think she's special at all. If she was, her mother wouldn't have left. And if she isn't careful, everyone else will leave her too. Each day Aster must do a good, right thing -- a challenge she sets herself, to make someone else's life better. Nobody can know about her 'things', because then they won't count. And if she doesn't do them, she knows everything will go wrong. Then she meets Xavier. He wears superhero pajamas and has his own kind of special missions to make life better. When they do these missions together, Aster feels free -- but if she stops doing her good, right things will everything fall apart?
