Title: Star of the Week—A story of love, adoption & brownies with sprinkles
Author: Darlene Friedman
Illustrator: Roger Roth
Date of publication: 2009
Publishing Company: The Bowen Press- An imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Awards: n/a
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Realism (families)
Theme: Love & adoptions between families
Primary Characters: Cassidy-Li
Secondary characters: her family
Classroom Use: Just a cute book to read about adoption and the love of a family.
Summary: Great storybook about a family’s adoption and all the love they have for her. Cassidy-Li is adopted into her family and for school she is chosen as the star of the week. The star of the week is a student that gets chosen and brings a poster all about them. Cassidy-Li is all excited to bring her poster, but however, when she is doing her poster she realizes and gets sad that she doesn’t know her birth parents. She starts to wonder if her classmates will make fun of her and all. Her parents reassure her that all will be ok and that they love her and her birthparents very much. She then decides to draw a picture of her birthparents for her poster. She gets excited at school and does very well in presenting her poster. Overall, she had an awesome day as the star of the week!!
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