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Bucket of stars / Suri Rosen ; cover illustration by Steven P. Hughes.

by Rosen, Suri.

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Scholastic Canada Ltd., 2023.

Astronomers -- Juvenile fiction.

Independent filmmakers -- Juvenile fiction.

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Urbanization -- Juvenile fiction.

9781443192798 (pbk.)

231 p. ; 20 cm.

A story of two kids trying to save the world they know and heal the families they have. It's the summer of 2003 and thirteen-year-old astronomer Noah Cooper has just moved to Queensport, a small town with a vast amateur sky full of stars. There he meets Tara Dhillon, a lonely girl and aspiring filmmaker. When the two team up to produce an astronomy movie and enter a film contest, they discover a secret plan to turn their rural hamlet into a huge subdivision. Noah and Tara must use their unique skills to identify the culprits who plan on paving over the historic county -- and try to save the infinite beauty of the stars. As if that's not enough to have at stake, Noah needs to win the prize money to buy a new telescope for his unemployed father -- an ex-astronomer who's almost given up on the stars, as well as life on earth. Touching on themes of activism, environmental anxiety and mental health, A Bucket of Stars will have readers cheering for Noah, a boy whose head is in the stars, and Tara, a girl who lives in a world of digital images -- and their special bond that just might mend the world around them.

Canadian fiction, Juvenile.

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