Aster's Good, Right Things

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

"I cant let go of them the good, right thingsbecause if I do Ill turn into a cloud and Ill float away, and a storm will come and blow me to nothing." Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesnt think shes special at all. If she was, her mother wouldnt have left. 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's sure everything will go wrong. Then she meets Xavier. He 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

Kate Gordons writing in Asters Good, Right Things is at times so authentic that it makes you wince with the pain and anguish of it all, but ultimately wraps you up in immense beauty and goodness. I LOVE this book. Megan Daley, author of Raising Readers

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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 hasnt 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 by everyone from Yellow Brick Books through to Random House Australia. 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the 2016 IBBY Ena Noel Award for Writing Clementine, and in 2018 was shortlisted in the Dorothy Hewett Awards for an Unpublished Manuscript.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, Asters Good, Right Things (published by Riveted Press) won the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, and in 2023, Xavier in the Meantime was shortlisted in the same category.