Stella by Starlight

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 01/06/2015
ISBN: 9781442494978
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.30d
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Finalist
Award: Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up) - Silver Medal Winner
Award: Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children - Winner

Review Citations: Booklist 12/01/2014 pg. 56
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2014
Publishers Weekly 11/24/2014
School Library Journal 01/01/2015 pg. 92
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2015 pg. 79
Shelf Awareness 01/13/2015
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2015 - Recommended - Better Than Most
New York Times Book Review 02/08/2015 pg. 23
New York Times Book Review 02/15/2015 pg. 26
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2015
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2015 pg. 307
Kirkus Best Middle Grade Books 11/15/2015 pg. 73
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/02/2015 pg. 80
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/06/2015 pg. 34

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 171389 / Stella by Starlight
Reading Level: 4.8 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 8