Stella by Starlight
Publisher
Atheneum
Publication Year
2015
ISBN
9781442494978
Pages
320 pages
Genre
historical
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
Grade Level
3-5; 6-8
Diversity Topics
Racial Diversity; Race discrimination; Interracial; interracial friendship; racism; prejudice
Main Character
girl
Race/Ethnicities
Black
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
20 Years of Dia, 2016
Best of the Best Books, 2015
Choices, 2016
CSMCL Best Books, 2015
Distinguished Books, 2015
New York Times
Notable Children's Books, 2015
Notable Books for a Global Society, 2016
Notable Children's Books, 2016
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2016
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2016
NYC Reads 365, 2015
Teachers' Choices, 2016
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, 2016-2017
Nominee
Garden State Teen Book Award, 2018
Nominee
Georgia Children's Book Award, 2016-2017
Nominee
Golden Sower Award, 2016-2017
Nominee
Massachusetts Children's Book Award, 2017-2018
Master List
Quahog Book Award, 2016
Nominee
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, 2017
Nominee
Rhode Island Children's Book Award, 2017
Nominee
South Carolina Children's Book Award, 2016-2017
Nominee
William Allen White Children's Book Award, 2017-2018
Master List
Young Hoosier Book Award, 2016-2017
NomineeCharlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children, 2016, Winner
Cybils Awards, 2015, Nominee, Middle Grade Fiction
Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award, 2016, Winner
NAACP Image Award, 2016, Nominee, Outstanding Literary Work-Youth/Teen
NAACP Image Award, 2017, Nominee, Outstanding Literary Work-Youth/Teen
Skipping Stones Honor Award, 2016, Winner, Multicultural And International
Keywords
civil rights; voting; voter registration; doctors; Ku Klux Klan; KKK; North Carolina; snake bite; story telling
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Draper, Sharon M., "Stella by Starlight" (2015). Diverse Families. 922.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/922