Mandy and her mom Debby Davis (a master teacher, who spent over four decades teaching books just like Superstar to her third and fourth graders) have come together to create a collection of discussion questions for Superstar. These questions are perfect to use in literature circles, as a whole-class book study, along with a read aloud, or even one-on-one with a single child. Superstar by Mandy Davis is a book about a kid named Lester Musselbaum whose dad had died in a spacecraft accident when he was young. His mom had no job and homeschooled Lester. They didn’t have enough money to be financially stable, so his mom got a job and Lester had to go to a real school/5. This uplifting debut novel from Mandy Davis follows space-obsessed Lester Musselbaum as he experiences the challenges of his first days of public school: making friends, facing bullies, finding his .
Mandy Davis is a superstar." (Linda Urban, author of Milo Speck: Accidental Agent and A Crooked Kind of Perfect) "Lester's first-person narrative is honest and pure." (Kirkus Reviews (starred review)). Superstar by Mandy Davis is a book about a kid named Lester Musselbaum whose dad had died in a spacecraft accident when he was young. His mom had no job and homeschooled Lester. They didn't have enough money to be financially stable, so his mom got a job and Lester had to go to a real school. Superstar by Mandy Davis is one of my favorite books. I enjoyed exploring Lester's life as he starts school for the first time as a 5th grader while also dea.
Posted on Septem Octo by Mandy Davis A few weeks ago, I received the galley of Superstar, my first novel. (A galley is basically a bunch of printed pages that show what a book will look like between the covers. Superstar by Mandy Davis is a book about a kid named Lester Musselbaum whose dad had died in a spacecraft accident when he was young. His mom had no job and homeschooled Lester. They didn’t have enough money to be financially stable, so his mom got a job and Lester had to go to a real school. This uplifting debut novel from Mandy Davis follows space-obsessed Lester Musselbaum as he experiences the challenges of his first days of public school: making friends, facing bullies, finding his "thing," and accidentally learning of his autism-spectrum diagnosis. Lester's first days as a fifth grader at Quarry Elementary School are not even a little bit like he thought they would be -- the cafeteria is too loud for Lester's ears, there are too many kids, and then there's the bully.
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