By Meg Grehan (author)
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Follow-up to the award-winning The Deepest Breath . A warm and sensitive dual narrator LGBTQ+ story.
Stevie is about to start secondary school. She often feels anxious, but feels much better having her two best friends, Chloe and Andrew, by her side.Their new school is filled with excitement, like the LGBTQIA+ club, but also challenges, such as math class. The biggest challenge of all though comes when Andrew suddenly becomes distant.
Andrew isn't quite sure who he is yet. This didn't matter much before, especially when he was hanging out with Stevie and Chloe. Now it seems to matter very much indeed, but he doesn't know how to begin talking about it with his friends, who seem to be much clearer about who they are.
Meg Grehan is a 26-year-old writer from Louth who now lives in Donegal, and in 2018 won the Eilis Dillon award from Children's Books Ireland for her first novel, The Space Between. She writes almost full-time, but also works as a stage manager and theatre technician in productions around Ireland. She has written for online newspapers and journals such as The Arcade, but this is her first book.
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Follow-up to the award-winning The Deepest Breath. A warm and sensitive dual narrator LGBTQ+ story.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Brightest Star and determined it is suitable for children aged 11-14 years old
The Brightest Star features in the following genres: Featured Books for 11+ readers, Featured Books for 13+ readers, Recommendations, School Stories, Stories in Verse, PSHE: Sexuality, Gender and Relationships, PSHE: Self-Awareness, Self-Esteem and Wellbeing, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Anxiety, depression and self-harm, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: LGBTQ+, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Mental health, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Physical and mental health conditions, Shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Award
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The Brightest Star was written by Meg Grehan and published by Little Island Books
The Brightest Star has 191 pages
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