Same Stuff as Stars

About this book

When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.

Subjects

• abandoned children
• abandoned children, fiction
• brothers and sisters
• brothers and sisters, fiction
• children's fiction
• dysfunctional families
• family life, fiction
• family problems
• fiction
• grandparents, fiction
• great-grandmothers
• juvenile fiction
• realistic fiction
• self-reliance
• self-reliance, fiction
• siblings
• siblings, fiction
• stars
• stars, fiction