Here is a novel study for A Handful of Stars by Newbery award winning author Cynthia Lord. This is a wonderful book about relationships with friends, family, prejudice, and love AND letting go of your own ideas and doing what is best for a loved one. The comprehension skills that are covered in this novel study are predicting, visualization, cause and effect, sequencing, questioning, main idea, key details, theme, summarizing, character traits, opinion writing, point of view, and character anal