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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Knights Of

ISBN: 9781915820075

RRP: £7.99

PAGES: 224

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 4, 2025

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Role Model

By 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

Reviews of Role Model

'One of the most exciting talents on the children’s publishing scene and… has transformed the representation of neurodivergent children in literature.' The Bookseller

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Elle McNicoll

Elle McNicoll is a bestselling and award-winning Scottish novelist. Her debut, A Kind of Spark, won the Blue Peter Book Award and the 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.

Her second novel, Show Us Who You Are, was Blackwell’s Book of the Month and one of The Bookseller’s Best Books of 2021. She is an advocate for better representation of neurodiversity in publishing, and currently lives in London.