A handful of stars
About this book
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.
Subjects
- blind dogs
- blueberry industry
- children of migrant laborers
- children's fiction
- dogs
- dogs, fiction
- emigration & immigration
- fiction
- friendship
- friendship, fiction
- grandparent and child
- grandparents
- grandparents, fiction
- hispanic american children
- hispanic americans
- hispanic americans, fiction
- hispanic & latino
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile nonfiction
- latinos (u.s.)
- maine, fiction
- migrant labor
- migrant labor, fiction
- people & places
- social themes
- william allen white award nominee