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Stella by Starlight
Contributor(s): Draper, Sharon M. (Author), Simms, Heather Alicia (Read by)
ISBN: 144238039X     ISBN-13: 9781442380394
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
OUR PRICE:   $22.49  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: January 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - New Experience
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 5.7" (0.30 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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Publisher Description:
2016 Audie Award Finalist for Middle Grade

Sharon M. Draper presents "storytelling at its finest" (School Library Journal, starred review) in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era novel about a young girl who must learn to be brave in the face of violent prejudice when the Ku Klux Klan reappears in her segregated southern town.

Stella lives in the segregated South--in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can't. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn't bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they're never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination. As Stella's community--her world--is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. And she learns that ashes don't necessarily signify an end.

Contributor Bio(s): Draper, Sharon M.: - Sharon M. Draper is a New York Times bestselling author and recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring her significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens. She has received the Coretta Scott King Award for both Copper Sun and Forged by Fire, and was most recently awarded the Charlotte Huck Award for Stella by Starlight. Her novel Out of My Mind has won multiple awards and was a New York Times bestseller for over three years. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she taught high school English for twenty-five years and was named National Teacher of the Year. Visit her at SharonDraper.com.