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Starred Review Flight of a Starling

  • Interest Level: Grade 7 - Grade 12
  • Reading Level: Grade 7

Best friends and sisters Lo and Rita have spent their lives flying through the air on the trapeze under the lights in the big top. The nomadic circus community is a close-knit family, but those bonds are threatened as secrets and lies surface and Lo finds forbidden love with a boy from outside the circus. The two sisters find themselves at odds with each other for the first time as they both search for love and test the limits of family loyalty. Lo must face up to a family member’s deception and navigate her newfound love. Will she manage to land on her feet?

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Interest Level Grade 7 - Grade 12
Reading Level Grade 7
Genre Young Adult
Copyright 2019
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Carolrhoda Lab ®
Language English
Number of Pages 264
Publication Date 2019-02-05
Text Type Fiction
BISACS YAF047000, YAF018070, YAF052000
Dewey [Fic]
Dimensions 5.5 x 8.25
Lexile 610
Features Author/Illustrator biography, Reviewed, Starred Reviews, and Teaching Guides

Reviews

School Library Journal

Reviewed on 1 January 2019

“[For] fans of Jennifer Niven and Stephanie Garber.”—School Library Journal

Booklist

Reviewed on 29 November 2018

“A lingering piece on family, sisterhood, and the cost of secrets.”—Booklist

Starred Review Kirkus Reviews

Reviewed on 18 October 2018

“[A] gem of a novel, one that is sure to be savored.”—starred, Kirkus Reviews