A bucket of stars

A story of two kids trying to save the world they know and heal the families they have. it's the summer of 2003 and thirteen-year-old amateur astronomer noah cooper has just moved to queensport, a small town with a vast sky full of stars. there he meets tara dhillon, a lonely girl and aspiring filmmaker. when the two team up to produce an astronomy movie and enter a film contest, they discover a secret plan to turn their rural hamlet into a huge subdivision. noah and tara must use their unique skills to identify the culprits who plan on paving over the historic county — and try to save the infinite beauty of the stars. as if that's not enough to have at stake, noah needs to win the prize money to buy a new telescope for his unemployed father — an ex-astronomer who's almost given up on the stars, as well as life on earth. touching on themes of activism, environmental anxiety and mental health, a bucket of stars will have readers cheering for noah, a boy whose head is in the stars, and tara, a girl who lives in a world of digital images — and their special bond that just might mend the world around them.