A Pocketful of Stars Spiral-Bound | 2023-09-05

Aisha Bushby

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A heartfelt, magic-inflected story of a mother-daughter relationship that deals gracefully with both huge loss and the everyday challenges of growing up

Safiya and her mother have never seen eye to eye.

Her mother doesn't understand Safiya's love of gaming, and shy Safiya doesn't think she has anything in common with her vibrant, sometimes volatile mother. But when her mother falls into a coma, Safiya's whole world shifts. She finds herself dreaming about an unfamiliar setting and a rebellious girl who's distinctly familiar...

As Safiya unlocks the secrets of these dreams the way she would unlock levels in a game, she realizes that opening her heart to the past is the key to changing her future--and that she may not be so different from her mother after all.

Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Original Binding: Hardcover with printed dust jacket
Pages: 248 pages
ISBN-10: 1473222184
Item Weight: 0.7 lbs
Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.9 x 8.0 inches

"Bushby writes with nuance and skill about a mother-daughter relationship fraught with misunderstanding, and Safiya's eventual realizations are equal parts uplifting and heartbreaking. A poignantly written novel that is hard to put down and even harder to forget." --starred, Kirkus Reviews

Aisha Bushby was born in Bahrain to Kuwaiti-Canadian parents and has lived in Kuwait, England, and Canada. The first novel she ever worked on was a piece of fan fiction which she stayed up all night to work on when she was thirteen. She now writes magical children's books from her home in England, where she lives with her husband and two curious cats. She is the author of several children's books including A Flash of Fireflies and A Pocketful of Stars which was longlisted for the Carnegie medal and shortlisted for the Branford Boase award.