Meet Renea, a curious seven year old girl with a big puffy afro and a calm heart. One quiet morning at the breakfast table, a tiny whisper sends her tummy into a flutter of butterflies. With a little help from her mom, a few deep breaths, and a sensory grounding game, Renea learns to manage her big feelings. She soon discovers a brand new gift, realizing her food can actually talk! From crunchy carrots to sleepy chocolate bars, Renea learns how different foods charge her body battery. This gentle adventure teaches children that listening to their body is the greatest superpower of all.

Key Themes Explored

• Mindful nutrition and making healthy choices every day

• Emotional regulation and finding calm through breathing

• Sensory grounding using the Five Things game

• Connecting emotions with physical reactions

Key Sight Words Identified

• The, and, her, is, to, a, up, down, big, see, look, sweet, green, red, quiet, safe, calm

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A sensory-supportive companion to Nana's Rhyme and Rhythm with laminated, dry-erasable pages for long-term use and durability. Includes coloring pages, movement prompts, body awareness exercises, feelings regulation activities, calm corner guides, and home carryover tools. Designed for professional and family use with structured, low-demand regulation activities for therapeutic, educational, and home settings.

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The novel follows Winston Coleman, a sixteen-year-old sophomore whose entire life is experienced through a unique neurodivergent lens. For Winston, everyday existence is a complex symphony; a chaotic cafeteria isn't just noise, but a hundred stacked rhythms. A gifted tenor saxophone player, his incredible talent earns him a rare audition slot for the prestigious Bryant Brown Institute. But his world shatters when an unexplained, idiopathic condition begins to systematically erase his high-frequency hearing.

As his sensory processing fundamentally shifts, Winston is plunged into profound fear and anxiety. 

Key Classroom Themes & Educational Features

• Supported Reading: Strategically highlighted sight words and key phrases keep reluctant readers engaged and guide them through complex emotional themes.

• Neurodiversity & Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD): Offers a deep, empathetic look into a protagonist who processes the world through unique auditory and physical input, and his journey to adapt when those senses change.

• Anxiety, Fear, & Emotional Regulation: Authentically portrays the physical reality of panic attacks while modeling practical coping mechanisms, demonstrating how structured breathing can bring a person back into their own body.

• The Weight of Hidden Disabilities: Explores the isolating fear of living with an invisible disability and the heavy emotional toll of hiding the truth from family and friends.

• Resilience & True Adaptation: Demonstrates how pre-teens and  young adults can rebuild their passions by letting go of who they once were, learning to navigate the darkness by "dead reckoning" to find a new way forward.

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The official companion activity workbook to the novel Sounds of A Stranger. As Winston Coleman loses the hearing that defines him and learns to play by feel, readers ages 12 and up grow their vocabulary, practice staying calm, study character and story, and discover the sound of their own voice. All you need is a pencil and your own good thinking.

This guided digital workbook walks beside the novel, page by page, turning a powerful story into a hands on experience. Readers build vocabulary they can actually use, explore the world through their senses the way Winston does, practice real tools for staying calm when feelings run high, study the characters and the choices that shape them, and write their own way into the story.

Rooted in social and emotional learning and a strengths based view of difference, the workbook gently builds empathy, resilience, self advocacy, and self awareness. It is warm, age appropriate, and designed for diverse learners, with room to think, reflect, and make every page personal.

Perfect for readers ages 12 and up, classrooms and homeschools in grades 6 to 9, counselors, and any family who wants to go deeper. Pairs beautifully with the novel and the Sounds of A Stranger Educator Companion.

What is inside

• Vocabulary you can see and use

• Sensory exploration and the world the way Winston hears it

• Calm and coping tools, including box breathing

• Character study and story sequencing

• A support team map and a write your own scene activity

• Reflections on identity and finding the sound of you

Perfect for Independent readers, classrooms, homeschools, book clubs, counseling and advisory groups, and gifts for any young person navigating change

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