Name: Role Model
ISBN: 9781915820075

Elle McNicoll

From the award-winning author of A Kind of Spark comes a new heartfelt and timely novel for middle-grade and teen readers.

Aeriel Sharpe doesn’t want to be anyone’s role model. But, when her mother is elected to be the most important politician in the country (yes, that one), she is thrust into the spotlight. With the world’s eyes on her, friends don’t seem that friendly and she feels trapped by everyone’s expectations.

They want her to be the voice of every autistic teenager, but Aeriel must find a way to speak for herself…

It’s not easy being thirteen… and it’s even harder when you’re the most famous teenager in the country

Role Model

Elle McNicoll has don’t It again, she is such a powerful own voices writer that I just adore the way she writes and the characters that she creates, It’s hard not to feel for them or for me to find connections to them as an Autistic Adult myself and when I look back some of the way that people spoke to me, it’s hard to read but at the same time its realistic and entirely believable the worlds she creates.

Aeriel Sharpe’s mother has just been elected Prime Minster her entire world is about to change as she knows it as she is thrust into the spotlight with what seems to be the entire world is focused on her every move and every word that she says. But her friends don’t seem to be that friendly to her and are treating her differently she is trapped under the weight of everyone’s expectations. They all want her to be the voice to “Autistic People” but she needs to be herself and speak for herself.

Once again, I was able to see myself in Aeriel having been through some of the friendship issues myself, but this book impacted me as all of Elle’s books do. This Book felt heartfelt and so incredibly real

Ian Brakspear

Elle McNicoll has don’t It again, she is such a powerful own voices writer that I just adore the way she writes and the characters that she creates, It’s hard not to feel for them or for me to find connections to them as an Autistic Adult myself and when I look back some of the way that people spoke to me, it’s hard to read but at the same time its realistic and entirely believable the worlds she creates.

 

Aeriel Sharpe’s mother has just been elected Prime Minster her entire world is about to change as she knows it as she is thrust into the spotlight with what seems to be the entire world is focused on her every move and every word that she says. But her friends don’t seem to be that friendly to her and are treating her differently she is trapped under the weight of everyone’s expectations. They all want her to be the voice to “Autistic People” but she needs to be herself and speak for herself.

 

Once again, I was able to see myself in Aeriel having been through some of the friendship issues myself, but this book impacted me as all of Elle’s books do. This Book felt heartfelt and so incredibly real