The Girl Who Swallowed a Star. A Fantasy Adventure of the Heart 14+

📕 Eleven-year-old Maria is angry about her parents’ divorce. In the midst of losing everything important to her, she desperately searches for the comfort and guidance of a mysterious light that she and her father saw years ago in the forest near her house on the California coast.But instead of finding the orb near the hollow of the great redwood tree, she is swept away by a fantastic forest adventure with Marcos, a lost boy from another world. They begin a quest to find Maria’s orb and a portal to get back to Marcos’s world.One night in the forest, a tiny star appears next to Maria, Marcos and the forest animals. But only she can hold it. Marcos thinks the star comes from his world, and he suggests she swallow it. As their quest becomes increasingly perilous, Maria finally takes her friend’s advice and it changes her forever.