**WINNER 2021 CBCA Younger Reader Category**

Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesn't think she's special at all. If she was, her mother wouldn't have left. And if she isn't careful, everyone else will leave her too. Each day Aster must do a good, right thinga challenge she sets herself, to make someone else's life better. Nobody can know about her things, because then they wont count. And if she doesn't do them, she knows everything will go wrong. Then she meets Xavier. He wears princess pyjamas and has his own kind of special missions to make life better. When they do these missions together, Aster feels free, but if she stops doing her good, right things will everything fall apart?

Kate Gordon's writing in Aster's Good, Right Things is at times so authentic that it makes you wince with the pain and anguish of it all, but ultimately wraps you up in immense beauty and goodness. I LOVE this book. - Megan Daley, Children's Books Daily

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