The Invisible Boy and the Secret Garden (Paperback)

Paperback. The monsters of growing up never stay the same.In the first book, they roared - anger, panic, a loneliness you could see coming and learn to face. In the second book of The Time-Stoppers Trilogy, they go quiet. They stop shouting and start whispering: You are not special enough. You do not belong here. If people really knew you, they would leave. These are the invisible monsters - the ones that wear your own face, speak in your own voice, and hide inside the very groups you most want to join.Svasti and Sujata are no longer wide-eyed children discovering mindfulness for the first time. They are teenagers now, living inside the Buddha's monastery and learning a harder lesson: the real battle is not fought against bullies or storms, but inside your own head - in the gap between who you are and who the world wants you to be.Behind the garden gates you will meet Rahula, a prince who learns that being a famous father's son makes you ordinary, and ordinary is terrifying; Nanda, so heartbroken he has stopped eating; Sunita, a boy the world has decided is invisible, who finds that the bravest thing he can do is refuse to disappear; and Devadatta, a man with a beautiful smile building an empire out of leaving people out.This book hands young readers new magic for real life: the Real-Self Inventory, to peel away every label the world has stuck on them; Watch the Wave, to ride enormous feelings without being swept under; and the Belonging Check, three questions that reveal whether a group is making you bigger or smaller.For teens wrestling with identity and belonging - and the parents who love them - this is a story about discovering that when everything borrowed is stripped away, what remains is not emptiness. It is freedom.The garden gates are opening. What grows inside may surprise you. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…