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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2012 | Preschool to Grade 4
Gr 1–3—Young Stella lives in a city neighborhood that undergoes a miraculous change when a run-down bus mysteriously appears in front of her house. A sign taped to the bus reads, "Heaven." Intrigued, the pale girl, "the color of moonlight," urges her neighbors to help her push the abandoned vehicle into her yard, leaving only the front wheels on the sidewalk. Coming together, the grown-ups clean the inside of it while s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2012
"The bus brought change to Stella’s street…Stella changed, too." It’s quiet, pale Stella who takes her thumb out of her mouth and steps onto the bus that has been abandoned outside her house, claiming it for the whole neighborhood. "‘It could be…ours,’ she whispered." And it’s Heaven (according to the sign taped on to the front of the bus) that provides this ethnically diverse, lower-middle-class group of people space to build a community. Everyone pitches in: cleaning the broken-down, trash-fille...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
When young Stella claims an abandoned bus for the whole neighborhood, it provides this ethnically diverse, lower-middle-class gr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
