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Star in the forest

After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.

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Main Author: Resau, Laura
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York [N.Y.] : Delacorte Press, c2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Children of immigrants > Juvenile fiction.
Fathers > Juvenile fiction.
Trailer camps > Juvenile fiction.
Dogs > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.
Physical Description:viii, 149 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Audience:Interest age level: Ages 7-10.
ISBN:9780385737920 (hc)
0385737920 (hc)
9780385907002 (lib. bdg.)
0385907001 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:Laura Resau lived in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca, Mexico, for two years as an English teacher and anthropologist. She now lives with her husband, her dog, and her son, Bran, in Colorado, where she teaches cultural anthropology and English as a Second Language. She is also the author of What the Moon Saw and Red Glass .

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