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A handful of stars

  • Cynthia Lord

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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.

Twelve-year-old Lily befriends Salma, a Hispanic girl whose family is in Maine for blueberry picking season, but as a local pageant approaches, the girls are confronted with the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.

Genres

  • Grandparent and child
  • Blind dogs
  • Grandparents
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fiction
  • Hispanic Americans
  • Friendship
  • Hispanic American children
  • Blueberry industry
  • Dogs
  • Children of migrant laborers
  • Migrant labor
  • JUVENILE NONFICTION
  • William Allen White award nominee
  • People & Places
  • Latinos (U.S.)
  • Emigration & Immigration
  • Social Themes
  • Hispanic & Latino
  • JUVENILE FICTION
  • Children's fiction
  • Hispanic americans, fiction
  • Dogs, fiction
  • Friendship, fiction
  • Migrant labor, fiction
  • Grandparents, fiction
  • Maine, fiction
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About the author

  • Cynthia Lord

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    15 ratings · 50 works

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    First edition.

    2015

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    Scholastic, Incorporated

    2017

  • Edition cover

    Scholastic, Incorporated

    2017