Sheetal's quest to save her father will take her to a celestial court of shining wonders and dark shadows, where she must take the stage as her family's champion in a competition to decide the next ruling house of the heavens-and win, or risk never returning to Earth at all.īrimming with celestial intrigue, this sparkling YA debut is perfect for fans of Roshani Chokshi and Laini Taylor. A star like her mother, who returned to the sky long ago. Writing about liminal spaces, fantasy, and intersectional feminism. Pretending to be "normal." But when an accidental flare of her starfire puts her human father in the hospital, Sheetal needs a full star's help to heal him. The daughter of a star and a mortal, Sheetal is used to keeping secrets. This gorgeously imagined YA debut blends shades of Neil Gaiman's Stardust and a breathtaking landscape of Hindu mythology into a radiant contemporary fantasy. "Shveta Thakrar's prose is as beautiful as starlight."- New York Times bestselling author Holly Black
No redistribution permitted.*Chosen as a 2020 Kids' Indie Next pick * A Locus Reading List recommendation * An Andre Norton Nebula Award Finalist* Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. VERDICT Thakrar's lyrical prose and imaginative story transport readers to a world tucked away in the limitless sky, a place of shining golden palaces and starsong.Gillian D'Ambrosio, Rutgers Univ., NJ?(c) Copyright 2011. Sheetal is a teen heroine drawn with grace and authenticity who will ring true with young adult readers. Her quest becomes more complicated when she encounters her sweetheart, Dev, in the heavens. Shveta’s Debut YA Fantasy Novel STAR DAUGHTER out NOW If the night sky holds many secrets, it holds Sheetal Mistrys secret the closest. Thrust into a competition to determine the ruling house of the stars' court, Sheetal must quickly learn the traditions of this new world and race to secure the healing blood in time to save her father. When not spinning stories about spider silk and shadows, magic and marauders, and. Her debut novel Star Daughter is out now from HarperTeen, and her short fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies.
When her starfire accidentally injures her beloved father and lands him in the hospital, Sheetal embarks on a celestial journey with her best friend Minal to search for a star's blood to heal him and to find her mother, who returned to the skies years before. Shveta Thakrar is a writer of South Asianflavored fantasy, part-time nagini, and full-time believer in magic.
Gr 8 Up-Sheetal, days shy of her 17th birthday, is the child of a star mother and a human father, with whom she lives in an Indian American community in New Jersey.
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