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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Stella by starlight / Sharon Draper. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: 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.
ISBN 978-1-4424-9497-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4424-9499-2 (eBook)
[1. Prejudices—Fiction. 2. Segregation—Fiction. 3. Civil rights—Fiction. 4. African Americans—Fiction. 5. Ku Klux Klan (1915- )—Fiction. 6. North Carolina—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D78325Su 2015
[Fic]—dc23
2014038728
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