Aster's Good, Right Things

Author(s): Kate Gordon

Children's Fiction | Bestselling Children's

Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesnt think shes special at all. If she was, her mother wouldnt have left. And if she isnt careful, everyone else will leave her too. Each day Aster must do a good, right thinga challenge she sets herself, to make someone elses life better. Nobody can know about her things, because then they wont count. And if she doesnt do them, she knows everything will go wrong. Then she meets Xavier. He wears princess pajamas and has his own kind of special missions to make life better. When they do these missions together, Aster feels freebut if she stops doing her good, right things will everything fall apart?

FULLERS REVIEW — Sophie


Tasmanian writer Kate Gordon has done something quite remarkable in this junior fiction novel: she takes us inside the thoughts of Aster and shows us what it feels like to suffer from extreme anxiety. In fact this book is peopled almost entirely with individuals who are mentally suffering in some way but it’s overall tone is anything but depressing. Rather, the pitch perfect voice of this bright but anxious and excruciatingly shy eleven-year-old, with her acute observations, gives us great insight into the emotional workings of those around her. We see that their varying degrees of loss, trauma and depression are all mitigated or helped by love and understanding.

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Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780648492573
  • : Riveted Press
  • : Riveted Press
  • : October 2020
  • : 203mm x 127mm x 203mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Kate Gordon
  • : Paperback
  • : 196