Starfish

This book uses starfish regeneration as metaphor teaching that God's design includes healing and resilience, that nature shows recovery, and that creation reveals hope.

This novel uses starfish's ability to regenerate as metaphor for healing from bullying. It teaches that God's design in nature includes resilience and recovery mechanisms, that observing how creation heals reveals hope, and that natural world's regeneration shows God's care for restoration—using nature to understand spiritual truth about healing.

Middle grade novel. Bullying and body image. Starfish regeneration metaphor. Nature showing healing. God's design in recovery. Printz Honor.