I Am 8 & Unstoppable

Thirteen stories about being exactly who you are. Marcus has a brain that runs like a race car on an ordinary road. Ethan is too loud for every room he walks into. Cameron cannot make the words on the page hold still, Oliver is frightened of very nearly everything, and Miles is the boy teachers have to lean in to hear. What the stories are actually about: - A big obsession- Something frightening- A brain that races- Two cultures- Words that swim- Being too loud- Losing a parent- Afraid of everything- Not fitting the brief- Failing again- Unfairness- A quiet voice- Being the new kid Every boy in this book meets something hard. Not dragons or pirates: the real things an eight-year-old actually faces. Losing someone. Starting again somewhere new. Being told, over and over, that the way you are is a problem to be fixed. >Perfect for: - Bedtime read-alouds, and newly confident readers going it alone- Children who feel different, and the grown-ups who want them to feel seen- Birthdays, first days of a big school year, and hard months- Parents who want feelings handled honestly rather than tidied away 13 stories. 13 black-and-white illustrations, one opening every story. 118 pages. Part of the I Am Unstoppable series, with a volume for ages 6, 7, 8 and 9 in both a boys' and a girls' edition. Every book stands alone. Scroll up and click Buy Now, and give them a story tonight that says they are enough.