TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boling,Dave
TI  - The lost history of stars
T2  - Thorndike Press large print historical fiction
SN  - 9781432843359
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company
KW  - South African War, 1899-1902
KW  - Concentration camps
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Concentration camp inmates
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Afrikaners
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Large type books
N1  - "A novel"--Cover
N2  - In turn-of-the-century South Africa, fourteen-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken from their farm by British soldiers and are being held in a concentration camp. It is early in the Boer War, and Lettie's father, grandfather, and brother are off fighting the British as thousands of Afrikaner women and children are detained. The camps are cramped and disease ridden; the threat of illness and starvation are ever present. Determined to dictate their own fate, Lettie and her family give each other strength and hope as they fight to survive amid increasingly dire conditions. Brave and defiant, Lettie finds comfort in memories of stargazing with her grandfather, in her plan to be a writer, and in surprising new friendships that will both nourish and challenge her. Inspired by Dave Boling's grandfather's own experience as a soldier during the Boer War
ER  -