Mission Not A Baby: Secret Agents Guide to Earning Your Own Rules

Kiki is eight years old, and he is DONE waiting his turn.His big brothers get bedtimes that bend, front doors that open without a grown-up standing there, and opinions that actually count at the dinner table. Kiki gets a colander, a dark green baseball cap, a flashlight, and one seriously determined plan: sneak out, shadow his brothers all the way to the park, and come home having proven - once and for all - that he is not a baby.The plan has exactly one flaw nobody warned him about: the dark doesn't care how brave your kitchen-strainer helmet makes you feel.What follows is a laugh-out-loud, heart-first middle grade story about the difference between not fair and not yet - and why trust, it turns out, isn't something you can sneak your way into. It has to be built, one small boring piece at a time.Funny, warm, and grounded in real family faith and real family love, Mission Not a Baby is for every kid who has ever felt like the youngest, the smallest, or the last one picked - and for every parent trying to explain, one more time, why the rules aren't personal.Perfect for readers ages 8-12 who loved Mischief and Manners and Logged Off, or any fan of funny, faith-forward family stories with real stakes and a real laugh on every page.