Resau, Laura.

Star in the forest / Laura Resau. - New York : Scholastic, c2013. - viii, 149 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.

ISBN: 9780545564229

LCCN: 2009003898

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Illegal aliens
Fathers
Trailer camps
Dogs
Friendship
Mexican Americans

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]