Winner of the Washington Irving Children's Choice Award

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

A Selection of the Junior Library Guild

Star light, star bright... Elvira wishes for a mother and finds instead the father she scarcely knew she had.

A native of Beaumont, Texas, Theresa Nelson is the award-winning author of eight novels for young readers: The 25¢ Miracle, Devil Storm, And One for All, The Beggars' Ride, Earthshine, The Empress of Elsewhere, Ruby Electric, and The Year We Sailed the Sun. She and her husband, actor Kevin Cooney, have lived in Los Angeles since 1991. They are the parents of three grown sons.

Visit Theresa at www.TheresaNelson.net.