Title: Keeping safe the Stars
Description: 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.
Subjects: Orphans, Family life, Fiction, Old age, Sick, Neighborliness, Self-reliance, History, Juvenile fiction
Places: Minnesota
Time periods: 20th century