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.