Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

By Laura Noakes and Flavia Sorrentino

Exciting, funny, moving - and featuring joyous and authentic disabled representation - Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star is a spellbinding middle-grade adventure.

Cosima has spent all her life at the Home for Unfortunate Girls, along with her best friends: Pearl, Mary and Diya. Cos longs for a real home and a real family. But when Cos finds out that famed explorer Lord Francis Fitzroy is planning to adopt them, she and her friends know something suspicious is afoot - and they make a plan. They're going to steal Fitzroy's prized tiara, containing the legendary Star Diamond of India

But as the big day draws closer, Cos stumbles across a mysterious treasure map that might just reveal the one secret she's always wanted to know - the truth about her parents...

Exciting, warm, funny, moving, and featuring joyous and authentic disabled representation, be prepared to have your heart stolen by Cosima and friends.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 000883508X
• ISBN13: 9780008835088
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher