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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