<p><strong>Island of a Thousand Stars</strong><br><em>By Brinda Phokeerdass</em></p><p>When seventeen-year-old Meera receives a letter from her late father-hidden for a decade and sealed with a crimson crest-her quiet life in Manchester is forever changed. Called to the island of Mauritius a land she's only known through stories and dreams Meera embarks on a journey of self-discovery ancestral secrets and long-buried truths. But the island is more than paradise; it's a living breathing mystery-where whispers echo through sugarcane fields the past bleeds into the present and a wooden dodo might be the key to a legacy once thought extinct.</p><p>From the author of <em>The Last Feather A Dodo Story</em> Brinda Phokeerdass delivers a lyrical coming-of-age tale about identity courage and the unbreakable threads that bind us to where we come from.</p>