Two Front Doors: A Sage Story

By Sheradun Strand

Sage has two front doors - and one whole life.

Nine-year-old Sage is getting pretty good at living between two homes.

She knows which house has the squeaky stair, which apartment has the refrigerator that sounds like a frog, where the cereal bowls belong, and which toothbrush waits in which bathroom.

What she is not so good at is figuring out how to keep everyone happy.

Sage starts watching every pause, every expression, and every handoff between her parents. She worries that having fun at Dad's might hurt Mom. That missing Mom at Dad's might hurt him. That choosing where to have her birthday might feel like choosing a parent.

Before long, Sage has created a whole invisible rulebook for herself.

But as she begins questioning those rules, Sage discovers something important: she does not have to manage grown-up feelings, carry messages between her parents, or become a different version of herself depending on which front door she walks through.

Warm, funny, and full of everyday childhood moments, Two Front Doors is a gentle chapter book about divorce, two-home families, loyalty worries, and learning that more than one feeling can be true at the same time.

Two homes. Two front doors. One Sage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HK83R926
• ISBN13: 9798173631190
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"