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  1. An Anti-Grinch Gets Excited
  2. My Best Friend Is a Room
  3. Home Is Where the Bach Is
  4. X’s and O’s
  5. Better Than a Puppy
  6. My Sister Is Sick and It’s a Good Thing
  7. A Shot a Day Makes the Doctor Say Yay
  8. Growth Hormone and Marmalade
  9. Silent Questions
  10. No Payne, No Gain
  11. How Not to Make Friends
  12. Art Show
  13. Seventh-Grade Writing
  14. Beach Bum
  15. First Draft
  16. The Doctor That Isn’t Mine
  17. Audacity
  18. Friends and Consequences
  19. Some Dead White Dude
  20. How Grown-Ups Listen
  21. Second Draft
  22. Houston, We Have a Problem
  23. What’s in a Name?
  24. Textbook People’s People
  25. Twitterpated
  26. Out Loud
  27. Thanksgiving Break
  28. Silence
  29. Sound
  30. Eleanor Roosevelt
  31. Gray Walls and Gas Masks
  32. Long Distance
  33. Doctor Who Was Right
  34. The Impossible Dream
  35. A New Doctor
  36. NLD
  37. There’s a Monster at the End of This Brain
  38. Master Plan
  39. The Day
  40. The Night
  41. Hospital
  42. Waiting
  43. Big Doctor Words
  44. Doctor Who Was Wrong
  45. Septal Defect
  46. Waiting Again
  47. A Glass Box
  48. My Body Versus Me
  49. Home Is Where the Heart Is
  50. My People’s People
  51. First Period
  52. She’s Got the Whole World in Her Head
  53. What Brains Are Made Of
  54. One Month Later
  55. When I Showed My Family the Email
  56. On an Ordinary Sunday
  57. What You Do with History
  58. Seventh/Eighth-Grade Division Winner of the Smithsonian Women in STEM Contest
  59. Acknowledgments
  60. CHAPTER ONE
  61. CHAPTER TWO
  62. About the Author
  63. Contents

About the Author

Sarah Allen has been published in The Evansville Review, Allegory, and on WritersDigest. She has an MFA from Brigham Young University. Like Libby in her novel What Stars are Made Of, Allen was born with Turner Syndrome. You can sign up for email updates here.

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Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. An Anti-Grinch Gets Excited
  5. My Best Friend Is a Room
  6. Home Is Where the Bach Is
  7. X’s and O’s
  8. Better Than a Puppy
  9. My Sister Is Sick and It’s a Good Thing
  10. A Shot a Day Makes the Doctor Say Yay
  11. Growth Hormone and Marmalade
  12. Silent Questions
  13. No Payne, No Gain
  14. How Not to Make Friends
  15. Art Show
  16. Seventh-Grade Writing
  17. Beach Bum
  18. First Draft
  19. The Doctor That Isn’t Mine
  20. Audacity
  21. Friends and Consequences
  22. Some Dead White Dude
  23. How Grown-Ups Listen
  24. Second Draft
  25. Houston, We Have a Problem
  26. What’s in a Name?
  27. Textbook People’s People
  28. Twitterpated
  29. Out Loud
  30. Thanksgiving Break
  31. Silence
  32. Sound
  33. Eleanor Roosevelt
  34. Gray Walls and Gas Masks
  35. Long Distance
  36. Doctor Who Was Right
  37. The Impossible Dream
  38. A New Doctor
  39. NLD
  40. There’s a Monster at the End of This Brain
  41. Master Plan
  42. The Day
  43. The Night
  44. Hospital
  45. Waiting
  46. Big Doctor Words
  47. Doctor Who Was Wrong
  48. Septal Defect
  49. Waiting Again
  50. A Glass Box
  51. My Body Versus Me
  52. Home Is Where the Heart Is
  53. My People’s People
  54. First Period
  55. She’s Got the Whole World in Her Head
  56. What Brains Are Made Of
  57. One Month Later
  58. When I Showed My Family the Email
  59. On an Ordinary Sunday
  60. What You Do with History
  61. Seventh/Eighth-Grade Division Winner of the Smithsonian Women in STEM Contest
  62. Acknowledgments
  63. Q&A
  64. Excerpt: Breathing Underwater
  65. About the Author
  66. Copyright

Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers

120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271

Copyright © 2020 Sarah Allen

All rights reserved

First hardcover edition, 2020

eBook edition, March 2020

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Allen, Sarah Elisabeth, author.

Title: What stars are made of / Sarah Allen.

Description: First edition. | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. | Summary: Twelve-year-old Libby, born with Turner syndrome, is determined to win a science contest and use the money to help her older sister’s growing family, while surviving middle school.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019013249 | ISBN 9780374313197 (hardcover)

Subjects: | CYAC: Middle schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Sisters—Fiction. | Turner syndrome—Fiction. | Genetic disorders—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.A4394 Wh 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23