A handful of stars

Description:

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: Grandparent and child,  Blind dogs,  Grandparents,  Juvenile fiction,  Fiction,  Hispanic Americans,  Friendship,  Hispanic American children,  Blueberry industry,  Dogs,  Children of migrant laborers,  Migrant labor,  JUVENILE NONFICTION,  William Allen White award nominee,  People & Places,  Latinos (U.S.),  Emigration & Immigration,  Social Themes,  Hispanic & Latino,  JUVENILE FICTION,  Children's fiction,  Hispanic americans, fiction,  Dogs, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Migrant labor, fiction,  Grandparents, fiction

Places: Maine