Vega's Piece of the Sky -- Jennifer Torres, Hardcover Poetry her plan is to brush

her plan is to brush up on her ASL

the clumsiest student at the Sand Dancer Academy

Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day

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Cooking and magic have a lot in common: both use various ingredients and natural forces to create something vital

Vega's Piece of the Sky -- Jennifer Torres, Hardcover Poetry her plan is to brushA meteorite comes crashing down on the lives of three middle schoolers changing everything they know about family, friendships, and community in this charming and heartfelt novel. The space rock is just the latest thing to land, uninvited, in Vega Lucero's road stop hometown. But when she discovers how much a chunk of the meteorite might be worth, she realizes it's exactly the treasure she's been hoping to find and maybe a way to convince her mom not