Stella by Starlight By Sharon M Draper-pdfread.net

colored newspaper explains this part.
• A man named Hitler from Germany has lots of soldiers following
him. He calls them storm troopers.
• Someone kidnaps the baby of a man named Charles Lindbergh.
The baby dies.
• Lots of people have no jobs because of something called the
Depression. A man named Roosevelt promises to fix that if he is
elected president.
Stella also collected local stories.
• Miss Erma Thorndike wins first place in the Miss Corn Cob
contest.
• Clifford Eubanks gets arrested for being drunk on a Sunday.
• Dinah Lee Dixon grows the biggest pumpkin in the county—it
weighs thirty-three pounds, seven ounces.
The world, she had found, was so much bigger than Bumblebee. And
so much more exciting.
Stella set the clippings aside and began flipping through a couple of
pages of the notebook from school, frowning. She just couldn’t seem to
get it right, this writing thing. She did most of her homework with Jojo at
the kitchen table. But she practiced her writing at night—she didn’t want
her family to know how she messed up. Mama and Papa, of course,
expected her to bring home good grades in every subject. Ugh.
Finally Stella opened the notebook to a fresh page. Taking an idea from
her father’s newspaper that morning, she wrote just one word on that
page—TRUTH. The whole rest of the page was an ocean of white. Double
ugh. She chewed on the pencil. She made curlicues on each letter of
TRUTH. Then she made a decision. If she was gonna really write with
honesty, she ought to start, like Mrs. Grayson said, with herself. She
gripped the pencil so tight, it made a mark on her middle finger.