Somewhere Else
Some minds stay where you put them. Others drift.
If there's a child in your life who is always "somewhere else" - who stares out the window, reads the same page four times without taking in a word, loses a jacket every month, forgets what you asked thirty seconds after you asked it, and has quietly begun to wonder whether she's just not very smart - then this book was written for her. And for him, because the quiet kind of ADHD hides just as well in boys, and in both it is easy to miss entirely.
Somewhere Else is a collection of twelve short, honest, big-hearted stories about children whose minds wander. Nadia disappears in the middle of a lesson and can't feel it happen. Junie is never in trouble, and so she is never noticed. Desmond gets a 68 on a test he understood completely. Sadie loves books and has only ever finished four. Each child faces a real struggle - the quiet, invisible, embarrassing kind that dreamy kids know by heart - and each one discovers that the mind that keeps floating away is also the mind that notices what everybody else walks straight past.
Along the way they pick up tricks kids can actually use: a way to catch yourself drifting before a whole lesson is gone, a method for starting the thing you've been avoiding for weeks, one reliable home for the things you always lose, and the words to tell a friend or a teacher the truth about how your brain works. An "Anchor Kit" at the back gathers every strategy in one place, and discussion questions help kids and grown-ups talk it through together.
Written for readers ages 8 to 12, Somewhere Else carries one message on every page: drifting isn't laziness, and it isn't not caring. It's what a deep, busy mind does when nothing is holding it - and holding on is a skill that can be learned.
Give the child who's always somewhere else a story where they're the hero.
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