Star in the Forest
by Resau, Laura
DogsAmericas Award for Children's LiteratureFamilyHispanic & Latinx PeopleWheatley Aligned Supplemental Texts
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AR Book Level
4.5
AR Points
3
Word Count
20,234
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
136221 EN
About this book
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 finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.