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A handful of stars  Cover Image Book Book

A handful of stars

Lord, Cynthia (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0545700272
  • ISBN: 9780545700276
  • ISBN: 0545700272
  • ISBN: 9780545700276
  • ISBN: 9780545700276 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 0545700272 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 9780545700283
  • ISBN: 0545700280
  • ISBN: 9781536410365
  • ISBN: 1536410365
  • Physical Description: 184 pages 22 cm
    print
  • Edition: First edition, June 2015.
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

Summary, etc.: When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
Target Audience Note:
5.2 Follett School Solutions.
Awards Note:
A Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee, 2016-2017
A Junior Library Guild selection, September 2015
Nutmeg Award Nominee, Intermediate, 2019.
2019 Nutmeg Book AwardIntermediate Nominee.
Subject: Children of migrant laborers Juvenile fiction
Hispanic American children Juvenile fiction
Blind dogs Juvenile fiction
Grandparent and child Juvenile fiction
Friendship Juvenile fiction
Blueberry industry Juvenile fiction
Migrant labor Fiction
Hispanic Americans Fiction
Blind dogs Fiction
Dogs Fiction
Grandparents Fiction
Friendship Fiction
Blueberry industry Fiction
Maine Juvenile fiction
Maine Fiction

Available copies

  • 54 of 57 copies available at Bibliomation.

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Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton J FIC Lor (Text) 33160125548415 Juvenile Fiction Available -
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