The children stop by Cathy’s Candy Store on the way to school and have a tense meeting with a group of white children. As they are gradually joined by their friends, parents offer warnings and tell the children to remain in groups. The next day, the Mills children walk to school. Stella tells her friend that she comes outside sometimes at night to write. Stella and her classmate Tony sit outside and talk. The family holds a meeting for other black adults from the neighborhood. The children return home and tell their parents what they have seen, and they are shocked as the Klan has not been active for many years. The group of men clad in white burn a cross. In the opening scene of the novel, 11-year-old Stella Mills and her eight-year-old brother Jojo are out by Kilkenny Pond when they witness a meeting of the Klu Klux Klan taking place. The novel takes place in the year 1932 in the small town of Bumblebee, North Carolina. The story's narrator only has access to the thoughts and feelings of the novel’s protagonist, Stella Mills. Stella by Starlight is a historical novel written by Sharon M.
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