O'Connor, Sheila.

Keeping safe the stars / Sheila O'Connor. - New York : Putnam's, c2012. - 295 p. ; 22 cm.

Pub Weekly, September 2012 Kirkus Starred, September 2012 Booklist, October 2012 New York Times, November 2012 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2012

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.

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Self-reliance--Fiction.
Sick--Fiction.
Family life--Minnesota--Fiction.
Neighbors--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Old age--Fiction.


Minnesota--History--Fiction.

PZ7.O22264 / Kee 2012

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