Same Stuff as Stars

By Katherine Paterson

Subjects: Self-reliance, Siblings, Abandoned children, fiction, Family problems, Family life, fiction, Dysfunctional families, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Stars, fiction, Stars, Fiction, Great-grandmothers, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Realistic Fiction, Abandoned children, Self-reliance, fiction

Description: 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.