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A beautiful young adult novel that explores the complex themes of anxiety and neurodiverse brown girls
An energetic, beautifully imperfect young heroine steals the show in Kiki Kallira Breaks A Kingdom by beloved British author Sangu Mandanna. 12-year-old Kiki has a good life. She and her mom are close, and her best friend totally gets her. There is one thing, though, that troubles Kiki, and that is anxiety. She is a constant worrier and the only way she can escape worrying is through drawing in her sketchbook, where she can lose herself in the fantastical creatures and magical stories that pour out of her active imagination. With Kiki Kallira Breaks A Kingdom, Mandanna gives children struggling with anxiety and symptoms of OCD an authentic protagonist who…