Star of the Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles

By Darlene Friedman

Book Overview

The husband-and-wife team behind this book drew on their own adoptive daughter's experience in creating this accessible, appealing story celebrating the love of families everywhere.

When it's Cassidy-Li's turn to be Star of the Week at school, the spunky kindergartener gets to create a poster about herself. She has pictures of all the important people in her life--with one big exception. Cassidy-Li, adopted from China when she was a baby, doesn't have a photo of her birth parents. But with a little help from her family, she finds a special way to include them.

Cassidy-Li's thoughts and questions about her birth family will resonate with adopted children and serve as a springboard for discussion in homes and classrooms. This picture book gently explores what adoption means for growing children--the questions adopted children have don't stop as they grow older.

Any young reader who feels that their family structure is unusual will find a reflection of themselves in Cassidy-Li's struggle to define her own family.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061141364
• ISBN13: 9780061141362
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3