Star in the Forest
New York [N.Y.] : Delacorte Press, [2010]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 149 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.
Subjects:
Noncitizens -- Juvenile fiction.
Fathers -- Juvenile fiction.
Trailer camps -- Juvenile fiction.
Dogs -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Illegal immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
Noncitizens -- Juvenile fiction.
Fathers -- Juvenile fiction.
Trailer camps -- Juvenile fiction.
Dogs -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Illegal immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: Interest age level: Ages 7-10.
ISBN:
9780385737920 (hc)