One is a lonely number imaginatively and captivatingly illustrated by Stephanie Archer, is the first volume in a trilogy.
In this story, the heroine Jenny Thwaite (10 years old) wakes up one morning to find that her nose is growing and turning bright red. That’s scary enough
to begin with, but there’s worse to come. She starts growing antlers on her head as well. The biggest problem though, is that no one else seems to notice anything different.
Jenny’s little brother, Adam, 8, is a strangely brilliant child, a genius with numbers, but no social skills at all.
Their mother, Mildred Thwaite is not very good at being a mother and finds her two creative and unusual children very irritating. She refuses to see what is right in front of her.
Luckily, Jenny and Adam meet some lovely people with their own unusual features, who accept them just the way they are. And finally, things are resolved in ways that might surprise you.
By the way, the story isn’t really fiction. After all, we all know people with quirks!