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Children's Fiction Environment

A Bucket of Stars

by (author) Suri Rosen

Publisher
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Initial publish date
Oct 2023
Category
Environment, Depression & Mental Illness, Friendship
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443192798
    Publish Date
    Oct 2023
    List Price
    $9.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443192804
    Publish Date
    Oct 2023
    List Price
    $9.99

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 9 to 12
  • Grade: 4 to 7

Description

A story of two kids trying to save the world they know and heal the families they have.

 

It’s the summer of 2003 and thirteen-year-old amateur astronomer Noah Cooper has just moved to Queensport, a small town with a vast sky full of stars. There he meets Tara Dhillon, a lonely girl and aspiring filmmaker. When the two team up to produce an astronomy movie and enter a film contest, they discover a secret plan to turn their rural hamlet into a huge subdivision.

Noah and Tara must use their unique skills to identify the culprits who plan on paving over the historic county — and try to save the infinite beauty of the stars. As if that’s not enough to have at stake, Noah needs to win the prize money to buy a new telescope for his unemployed father — an ex-astronomer who’s almost given up on the stars, as well as life on earth.

Touching on themes of activism, environmental anxiety and mental health, A Bucket of Stars will have readers cheering for Noah, a boy whose head is in the stars, and Tara, a girl who lives in a world of digital images — and their special bond that just might mend the world around them.

About the author

Awards

  • Short-listed, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice)
  • Short-listed, IODE Canada Violet Downey Award
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre
  • Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction

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