Keedie by Elle McNicoll

Review:

Before there was Addie, there was a Keedie. Firecracker Keedie has had enough of bullies and has had enough of conforming to convention. As she sets out to right wrongs and stand up for the truth, the sleepy town of Juniper is about to wake up and see that Keedie is one of a kind.

Keedie is an amazing prequel to A Kind of Spark and I loved being back in the world of Juniper. This coming-of-age story will inspire readers, educate readers and support readers. It shows children that they should be who they want to be and be proud of it. It is compelling, powerful, heartwarming and is full of kindness, family love, sibling rivalry, revenge, neurodiverse characters and bullying. It has everything that a middle-grader reader would want in a book.

Elle McNicoll really knows how to write from the heart and her warmth comes across through her stories and I just love them. I hope we get to be with Keedie/Addie in Juniper again sometime in the future…

Keedie is a perfect book for upper primary school libraries and classrooms and for fans of books by Lisa Thompson, RJ Palacio and Libby Scott.

I want to say a huge thank you to publishers, Knights Of, for sending me a finished copy of, Keedie, to read and review on my blog as well as the Waterstones website as a bookseller.

You can buy this fabulous book from all booksellers, online and of course using any independent local bookshop.

About the Author:

Elle McNicoll is a bestselling and award-winning Scottish novelist. Her debut, A Kind of Spark, won the Blue Peter Book Award and Overall Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, as well as Blackwell’s Book of 2020. She is Carnegie nominated and was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Awards 2020, the Branford Boase Award and The Little Rebels Award. She is an advocate for better representation of neurodiversity in publishing and currently lives in London.

You can find Elle at:

Twitter: @BooksandChokers

Instagram: @ellemcnicollofficial

Publishing Information:

Publisher: Knights Of

Publication Date: 4th April 2024

Paperback RRP: £7.99

Suitability: Age 8+

ISBN: 978-1913311988