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  • What Stars Are Made Of

  • By: Sarah Allen
  • Narrated by: Merissa Czyz
  • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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What Stars Are Made Of

By: Sarah Allen
Narrated by: Merissa Czyz
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A Mighty Girl Best Book of 2020!

From debut author Sarah Allen comes a pitch-perfect, heartwarming middle grade novel about growing up, finding yourself, and loving people with everything you’re made of.

Twelve-year-old Libby Monroe is great at science, being optimistic, and talking to her famous, accomplished friends (okay, maybe that last one is only in her head). She’s not great at playing piano, sitting still, or figuring out how to say the right thing at the right time in real life. Libby was born with Turner Syndrome, and that makes some things hard. But she has lots of people who love her, and that makes her pretty lucky.

When her big sister Nonny tells her she’s pregnant, Libby is thrilled—but worried. Nonny and her husband are in a financial black hole, and Libby knows that babies aren’t always born healthy. So she strikes a deal with the universe: She’ll enter a contest with a project about Cecilia Payne, the first person to discover what stars are made of. If she wins the grand prize and gives all that money to Nonny’s family, then the baby will be perfect. Does she have what it takes to care for the sister that has always cared for her? And what will it take for the universe to notice?

©2020 Sarah Allen (P)2022 Recorded Books
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Beautiful coming of age story

Libby is a bright young girl with Turners Syndrome who is out to change the way we see the world. Beyond the amazing representation that this book provides the story is engaging and heartfelt. Sarah Allen does a tremendous job of creating a character who feels so real and so relatable.
I would highly recommended this book for anyone from 9-90! It is a book where you feel good inside by the end, and something this world sorely needs.

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