Keeping safe the Stars

By Sheila O'Connor

Subjects: Self-reliance, Neighborliness, Old age, Fiction, Orphans, Sick, Juvenile fiction, History, Family life

Description: In rural Minnesota in 1974, thirteen-year-old Pride Star, raised to be independent, must accept help from friends and neighbors to care for eleven-year-old Nightingale and six-year-old Baby when her grandfather is hospitalized with a brain infection.