_______________ ‘A brave and beautiful book with a big heart. I loved it’ – Jenny Downham ‘A tear-jerker about family that shows us things that are important and true, and promotes compassion’ – Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week _______________ FROM THE WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL 2022 We are her world and her universe and her space and her stars and her sky and her galaxy and her cosmos too. Frank is ten, and he likes cottage pie, football and cracking codes. Max is five, and he only eats Quavers – some colours are simply too bright for him, and a new T-shirt can send him melting down down down. Sometimes Frank wishes Mum still had time for the huge paintings of stars and asteroids she used to make, but since Max arrived, there’s just never a moment spare. When tragedy strikes Frank and Max’s lives like a comet, can Frank find a way to build a universe where he and Max aren’t light years apart? This jaw-dropping, heartbreaking, hopeful novel from Katya Balen will remind you that we’re all made of stardust – perfect for fans of thought-provoking, moving middle grade, from Wonder to Skellig. _______________ ‘Sensitive, heartbreaking … a wonderful narrative voice’ – Guardian ‘A moving, absorbing novel about a pair of brothers – one is autistic, one is not, and I came to love both of them’ – Joanne Limburg, author of The Autistic Alice ‘Invigorating, enlightening and exciting’ – James Sinclair, Autistic & Unapologetic _______________
ISBN 13: 9781526601971
Author: Katya Balen
