The former Waterstones Children's Book Prize winner and modern children's classic A Kind of Spark gets a magnificent prequel focusing on Addie's older sister Keedie, as she comes of age as an autistic teenager in the town of Juniper.
Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that thoughtfully tackles bullying, navigating friendships, and the joys and difficulties of being an autistic teenager.
As Keedie and her twin sister Nina approach their fourteenth birthday, they seem to only be growing further apart. Keedie instead feels drawn to, and fiercely protective of, their quiet younger sister Addie - who on the surface is the opposite of loud and fiery Keedie, but in fact they have more in common than anyone knows.
Publisher: Knights Of Media
ISBN: 9781913311988
Packed full of empathy, bravery and (to be honest) sheer badassery, this is the perfect prequel to McNicoll’s debut, A Kind of Spark. There is not a single word wasted in this powerhouse of a book, and Keedie leaps... More
Thank you to the publishers for this early review copy.
What can I really say but another absolutely great read from Elle!
It looks at how we might all be different for whatever reason, we are all unique.
It looks...
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McNicoll returns to Juniper with the ferocious, brilliant voice of Keedie, and man I am so excited to be back with her. This is a prequel to A Kind of Spark, set five years earlier.
As their fourteenth birthday...
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