Winner Children’s Book Council of Australia Younger Readers 2021 

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 thing - a challenge she sets herself, to make someone else’s life better. Nobody can know about her ‘things’, because then they won’t count. And if she doesn’t do them, she knows everything will go wrong. Then she meets Xavier. He wears princess pajamas 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?