Book Description
for Shooting Stars Everywhere by Martina Wildner
From The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)
Victor lives with his father, a taxi driver, in an urban apartment com plex in Germany. The summer he turns thirteen, he is full of questions. Will his mom, a lawyer, remarry his dad? Will he ever learn to dive? Who is leaving sinister notes in his mailbox? Why won’t the mysterious girl he meets at the community swimming pool and knows only as “D” take him home to meet her family? Victor’s journal entries, fresh, funny, and honest, will resonate with confused adolescents who live well beyond the borders of his country . mac
Originally published as Jede Menge Sternschunppen in German by Beltz & Gelberg Weinheim Germany, in 2003. Translated by James Skofield.