title: A Family of Strangers: A Misfits and Heroes Adventure
author:  Kathleen Flanagan Rollins 
description: Kathleen Flanagan Rollins writes the award-winning Misfits and Heroes prehistoric adventure series about early explorers who reached the Americas. Her short stories have appeared in The Foliate Oak, The Sunlight Press, and Shark Reef Literary Journal.
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  “I wonder what people would think if they could take the front off our house,
  like a doll’s house, and watch us. All in the same house, but everyone
  separate. No one talking, but everyone thinking the same thing. Will we ever
  be a normal family again?”
  
  
  Izzy’s family is under the spotlight when her dad comes out as Danielle, a
  trans woman. Now shy Izzy must face her fears, find her voice, confront the
  bullies and stand up for her family.
  
  
  Warm, honest and hopeful, this is a story about the power of family,
  friendship and being true to yourself. Until the spotlight hits my family…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  This is Littlehaven. Nothing ever happens here.
  
  
  No one famous was born here. Or lived here. Or even died here.
  
  
  The high street has the same shops as every other high street in every other
  town.
  
  
  Even when you walk and walk right to the edge of Littlehaven, there aren’t
  rolling hills or mysterious woods, there are 