Role Model

Aeriel Sharpe isn’t anyone’s role model. But, when her mother is elected to be the most important politican in the country (yes, that one), she is thrust into the spotlight.

The narrative around her quickly spins out of her control, as she’s used as the face of neurodiversity against her will.

How will she handle the eyes on her, and keep her sense of self? It’s not easy being thirteen, let alone when you’re the most famous teenager in the country.

• A new timely, warm, contemporary middle-grade novel from award-winning
  author Elle McNicoll.
• Her debut A Kind of Spark won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and was adapted into a two season award-winning BBC series.
• Featuring authentic and relatable neurodiverse representation.