Star in the forest
By: Laura Resau ; [illustrations ... by Gary Blythe]
Contributors: Blythe, Gary, ill
Edition: 1st Yearling ed.
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780375854101
Subjects: Illegal aliens; Mexican Americans; Trailer camps; Fathers; Friendship; Dogs; Fiction
Description: 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. Includes author's note about immigration from Mexico to the United States, and Nahuatl and Spanish glossaries.
Notes: 7-10.

RL: 4.8.