Wish on All the Stars
Wish on All the Stars
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Annotation: New Starry Beach Club member Juliet works with her friends to make wishes come true, a vocation that is challenged by the possible closing of the local bookmobile.
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #203444
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2019
Edition Date: 2019 Release Date: 07/09/19
Pages: 209 pages
ISBN: 1-338-19577-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-338-19577-4
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2019025330
Dimensions: 22 cm.
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews

Juliet and her new friends have founded the Starry Beach Club to distract them from their problems and grant wishes to those in need.In See You on a Starry Night (2018), narrator Juliet's parents divorced and she and her sister moved with her mother to San Diego from Bakersfield, California. Juliet frets that everything back home is changing. Her best friend is starting to like coffee and dancing, and her father has started dating a woman from his work. She attempts to distract herself with new friends Carmen, who is Latinx, and Emma, who is white, like Juliet. Understanding that happiness comes by helping others, the three of them decide to work together to save the Mission Beach bookmobile. But as they develop their plan to raise money with a neighborhood art fair, Juliet realizes Carmen has secrets that can't compare to her own. Can she use her writing skills to help her new Guatemalan friend, whose mother might be deported? And can she find the courage to use her painting skills to sell artwork at the fair? A breezy read with fine pacing, the story doles out plenty of wisdom about overcoming one's fear of failure. With social activism, kindness to others, and compassion for those in need, Juliet sets a fine example of what it means to be a friend.A story that tackles immigration issues as part of a simple yet appealing plot. (Fiction. 8-12)

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Word Count: 42,123
Reading Level: 4.1
Interest Level: 4-7
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.1 / points: 6.0 / quiz: 503869 / grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:3.4 / points:10.0 / quiz:Q77060
Lexile: 610L

The magical sequel to See You on a Starry Night makes more seaside wishes come true!

Juliet is now an official member of the Starry Beach Club, and loves working with her new friends, Emma and Carmen, to make people's wishes come true. Living away from her dad is still hard, and she misses her best friend from her old town, but she has her friends and the bookmobile, and San Diego feels more like home than ever. But then she learns that the bookmobile is going to have to shut down. The owner of the parking lot wants to start charging rent, and soon the bookmobile won't be able to stay in business. The Starry Beach Club comes up with different ways to save their favorite store, but none seem to work. But then Emma gets the idea to have a crafts fair...and she wants Juliet to sell her paintings! Juliet is nervous, and isn't sure whether she's ready to put herself on display. Meanwhile, Carmen is feeling anxious about the possibility of her mother being deported. Will Juliet be able to be brave for herself and for Carmen?


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