The Emergency Contact : A Bea Story
Overview
Nine-year-old Bea is used to questions.
Why do you live with your grandma?
Where is your mom?
Who signs your school forms?
The answers are never as simple as the little boxes on school paperwork make them seem.
Bea lives with Gran, the person who burns grilled cheese on one side, loses her glasses on top of her own head, and always answers when the school calls. Bea still loves her mom too - even when visits change, promises wobble, and other people think they understand her family better than they do.
As school forms, family projects, awkward questions, and one very important emergency-contact list keep putting Bea's family under a spotlight, she begins to learn something that changes everything:
She does not have to explain her whole story just because someone asks.
With humor, heart, and a little help from Gran, Bea learns that privacy is not the same as secrecy, support is not a competition, and families do not have to fit inside someone else's boxes to count.
The Emergency Contact is a warm, funny chapter book about kinship care, family, belonging, privacy, and the people who show up.
Part of the Steady Heart Stories series, where ordinary kids navigate real-life challenges with honesty, humor, and heart.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798175040952
- ISBN-10: 9798175040952
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.35 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.43 pounds
- Page Count: 162
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