Aster's Good, Right Things by Kate Gordon - ISBN: 9780648492573
Paperback
Good deeds, hidden worries: Can friendship save Aster from herself?

Aster's Good, Right Things

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  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    1 November 2020

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Summary

WINNER OF THE CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 - YOUNGER READERS.

“I can’t let go of them – the good, right things—because if I do I’ll turn into a cloud and I’ll float away, and a storm will come and blow me to nothing.”

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. 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 ‘th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780648492573
ISBN-10:0648492575
Author:Kate Gordon
Publisher:Yellow Brick Books
Imprint:Riveted Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:1 November 2020
Weight:188g
Dimensions:23mm x 202mm x 67mm
About The Author

Kate Gordon

Kate Gordon grew up in a very bookish house, with two librarian parents, in a small town by the sea in Tasmania. In 2009 she won a Varuna fellowship and hasn’t stopped writing since. Her first book, Three Things About Daisy Blue, was published by Allen and Unwin in 2010. She has since been published multiple times. Kate won the 2016 IBBY Ena Noel Award for Writing Clementine, and in 2018 was shortlisted in the Dorothy Hewett Awards for an Unpublished Manuscript. Her YA novel Girl Running, Boy Falling (2018) is a CBCA Notable. In 2021, Aster’s Good, Right Things won the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, and in 2023, Xavier in the Meantime was shortlisted in the same category.

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