Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies
Illustrator
James Graham Hale
Publisher
Harper & Row
Publication Year
1992
ISBN
9780060261894
Pages
31 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picturebook
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
A boy who came from far away to be adopted by a couple in this country remembers how unfamiliar and frightening some of the things were in his new home, before he accepted the love to be found there.
Grade Level
K-3
Lexile Measure
460L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Adoption; Interracial; adopted child; adoptive family; adoptive mother; adoptive father; interracial/transracial adoption; interracial family
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
Asian / White
Family Formation
adoptive mother and father
Awards
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition,2001 H.W. Wilson
Recommended Literature: Kindergarten through Grade Twelve,2002 California Department of Education
Keywords
moving; new family; traveling by plane; pictures; fear
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Turner, Ann, "Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies" (1992). Diverse Families. 1432.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1432