Poppy's Miracle

By Michelle Foulia

Ten-year-old Alex doesn't want to go on holiday to Greece with his family. The only advantage is being far away from Jason, who bullies him for having ADHD. What Alex doesn't realise is that this holiday will change his life forever when he meets a stray, abandoned puppy. When the puppy is injured, Alex is determined to care for her and take her back home to England.
Can Alex and his family overcome the mountain of challenges to reach his dream? And can he prove to his family that ADHD is a gift, not a disorder? Will determination be enough to make his miracle come true?

This chapter book, written in a dyslexia-friendly font, also includes journal pages with activities to help the readers process, understand and celebrate themselves and their gifts.

***Based on a true story***

Teachers, this book provides a KS2 suitable resource using a feel good true story, to develop literacy, vocabulary, PHSE, the Welsh Curriculum 4 Core Purposes, and provide the opportunity for discussion as well as writing practice through the prompts and activities.

Child psychotherapists, child counsellors, care workers, this book provides the opportunity to work on a 1 to 1 with a neurodivergent child, who needs a gentle approachable and personalised approach to understand their ADHD, identify their gifts, and raise their self esteem and confidence. The prompts will give you a neutral ground to work with the subject of ADHD through the book's character Alex, who is based on a real person with ADHD. The child can write, doodle, draw in the book and make it their own, enabling conversation and deep work to take place in the gentlest way possible.

Foster carers, this book will provide a special way to connect to a foster child with ADHD, making them feel heard, seen, validated, accepted, valued and celebrated. Through this lovely story you can explore so many aspects from the fact that it is based on a real person with ADHD, just like them, that the author (me) has ADHD and was fostered as a child as well as was a foster carer as an adult, and to utilise the many opportunities to talk and connect through the story.

As Poppy is a real life rescue dog, readers can find me and Poppy through my website www.wordsforhealing.org, and arrange for an in person or virtual author visit, informal chat to meet Poppy, or for me and Poppy to speak at your event.