by Shirley Marr
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Text © 2021 by Shirley Marr
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Marr, Shirley, author.
Title: A glasshouse of stars / Shirley Marr.
Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2021] | Based on the author’s childhood experiences. | Audience: Ages 8–12. | Audience: Grades 4–6. | Summary: Inheriting First Uncle’s home after he dies tragically and unexpectedly, eleven-year-old Meixing and her family immigrate to the New Land, where it will take all of Meixing’s resilience and bravery to finally find her place of belonging in this new world.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020050888 (print) | LCCN 2020050889 (ebook) | ISBN 9781534488830 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534488854 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Emigration and immigration—Fiction. | Immigrants—Fiction. | Resilience (Personality trait)—Fiction. | Belonging (Social psychology)—Fiction. | Culture shock—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M37265 Gl 2021 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.M37265 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020050888
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020050889