“A Glasshouse of Stars”

Description

Winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year – Younger Readers 2022 An exquisite, heartbreakingly beautiful gem of a novel for anyone who loved Wonder, Lenny’s Book of Everything , A Monster Calls or When You Reach Me. New Starts, New Worlds Meixing Lim and her family have arrived at the New House in the New Land. Everything is vast and unknown to Meixing including the house she names Big Scary. She is embarrassed by her second-hand shoes, has trouble understanding the language at school, and is finding it hard to make friends. Finding Solace in Imagination Meixings only solace is a glasshouse in the garden, which inexplicably holds the sun and the moon and the secrets of her memory and imagination. Learning Courage and Resilience When her fragile universe is rocked by tragedy, it will take all of Meixings bravery to find her place of belonging in this new world.