01129cam a2200277 4500 540253122 TxAuBib 20211203120000.0 990826s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 99046910 9780689831348 068983134X TxAuBib Easton, Kelly. The life history of a star / Kelly Easton. 1st ed. New York : M.K. McElderry Books, 2001. 200 p. ; 20 cm. For more than a year, fourteen-year-old Kristin uses her diary to record her confused thoughts about the physical changes brought on by adolescence and the emotional strain on her family of living with the "ghost" of her beloved older brother who was physically and mentally destroyed while serving in Vietnam. 20211203. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Family life California Fiction. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Veterans Fiction. Diaries Fiction. California Fiction.