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The Way My Battery Works
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781067293604
Publisher: Daniel Leonard
Published: Aug 19 2026
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.33 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Everyone notices when a phone is about to die. Nobody notices when Zara is.
Zara Mitchell keeps a battery in her head. Not a real one - but it's real to her. Some mornings she wakes up at a hundred per cent. Some mornings she's already down to forty before she's even reached the school gate. Crowded corridors, scratchy uniforms, a voice that's a little too loud - every one of them takes a bit of charge.
The trouble is, nobody else can see the number. So when Zara's battery drops into the red, the people around her just see a girl who's gone quiet, or sharp, or still. They don't see how hard she's been working to keep going.
Then Zara starts to understand something that changes everything: if she can learn to read her own battery - what drains it, what charges it, and when to stop and recharge - she doesn't have to run herself flat just to keep up.
The Way My Battery Works is a warm, richly illustrated story for readers aged 11-14 who have ever felt like they run on a different kind of power. It's the first book in the Zara series - honest, hopeful, and built on one simple idea: the way your energy works isn't a flaw to fix. Once you understand it, it's yours to work with.
(And yes - there's a cat. His name is Pumpkin, and he has opinions.)
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