{"id":42401,"date":"2017-06-23T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T14:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=42401"},"modified":"2017-06-23T10:20:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T14:20:43","slug":"superstar-mandy-davis-shelf-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/superstar-mandy-davis-shelf-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstar by Mandy Davis [in Shelf Awareness]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-42402 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/06\/Superstar-by-Mandy-Davis-on-BookDragon-via-SA-563x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/06\/Superstar-by-Mandy-Davis-on-BookDragon-via-SA-563x800.jpg 563w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/06\/Superstar-by-Mandy-Davis-on-BookDragon-via-SA.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/>&#8220;Oh, Lester, you&#8217;re going to love it so much,&#8221; Lucy Musselbaum promises her 10-year-old son about entering Quarry Elementary. Homeschooled until now, Lester is understandably wary \u2013 change is always tough for him \u2013 but Lucy gently explains she&#8217;s &#8220;100 percent sure&#8221; she needs to go back to work to support their family of two. Five years ago, Lester lost his astronaut father in a horrifying space shuttle accident. Now with their savings &#8220;running low,&#8221; Lucy&#8217;s found work as a librarian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;School is &#8230; going to take a little while to adjust,&#8221; Lucy tells Lester. In Mrs. Raines&#8217;s fifth-grade class, Lester has 27 other students to meet. He&#8217;s already had a run-in with &#8220;that Ricky kid,&#8221; but Abby is friendly (she wants to dress him in &#8220;Superhero chic&#8221;), and Michael Z. &#8220;[doesn&#8217;t] care if [he&#8217;s] weird.&#8221; Lunchtime is tough, with unbearable noise levels in the cafeteria, but Lester inadvertently finds refuge \u2013 and relief from his distracting hunger \u2013 in the principal&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>While Lester eases into school with bumps and victories along the way, his mother, his classmates, his teachers, and even the principal learn a lot as well. Between lessons in friendship, playground politics, paper aerodynamics, &#8220;special spot&#8221; breaks, and kickball, Lester also comes to understand that autism is &#8220;a way of being in the world.&#8221; Using first-person narrative, debut author <a href=\"https:\/\/mandydavis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mandy Davis<\/a> imbues Lester&#8217;s voice with unguarded openness and candid observations. Struggling but resilient, challenging but determined, Lester repeatedly proves the many, <em>many<\/em> ways he&#8217;s truly the titular &#8220;superstar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discover<\/strong>: Mandy Davis&#8217;s debut introduces <em>Superstar<\/em> Lester Musselbaum \u2013 a 10-year-old boy with autism \u2013 as he figures out how to handle public school for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/readers-issue.html?issue=621#m10872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cChildren\u2019s &amp; Young Adult,\u201d <em>Shelf Awareness<\/em>, June 23, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Oh, Lester, you&#8217;re going to love it so much,&#8221; Lucy Musselbaum promises her 10-year-old son about entering Quarry Elementary. 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