--- product_id: 1694920 title: "The Silver Star: A Novel" price: "AED 76" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/1694920-the-silver-star-a-novel store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # The Silver Star: A Novel **Price:** AED 76 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Silver Star: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** AED 76 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/1694920-the-silver-star-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Silver Star: A Novel [Walls, Jeannette] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Silver Star: A Novel Review: ""The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple". ( Oscar Wilde as cited by the author.) - This is a stunningly apt quote for this glimmering story of Bean, 12, and Liz, 15. Similar to Walls' other books, their mother is narcissistic and unstable. However this mother is fictional and brings a fresh profile to this book. She and the girls live in California, but she disappears sporadically to seek work as a star or to pursue a man. Despite her avowal that nothing would be as important as her two girls, she leaves them for months with $200 for pot pies. When social services get too close, they travel to Virginia to stay with their certainly eccentric Uncle Tinsley. After Bean begs to bury her pet turtle Fido, the girls capture his heart, and he brings them into his home. Our narrator Bean is preternaturally wise with the charming erratic naïveté of a young girl. She isn't much for suffering fools,but she has befriended a number of the marginal of a failing mill town. Endearing is Aunt Al of the poor side of the family who nurtures the girls in her own way. Her children think "I hung the moon and scattered the stars." Her cousin Joe is that jewel in the rough, the honorable country boy. In the hands of a less skilled writer, the entire cast could easily go to pieces in a morass of cliche, but this author breathes life into her characters and enable them to encounter the inevitable powerful town boss with a fresh approach. The prose bears the mark of a small Southern town, and addresses the problems of the day with the Californian born Bean's take on the then shocking issue of integration. Many of us have awaited this book with anticipation, and I can say it has been worth the time. Those of you new to Walls will be treated to a talented writer. Review: Good, not great, but enjoyable - Like most other reviewers, I will preface my review by stating that The Glass Castle is one of my all-time favorite books. I try to pass my copy onto anyone who will take it. I was so thrilled with GC that I purchased her follow-up Half Broke Horses, which I also thoroughly enjoyed and lent to my mother to read. Somehow last month, I stumbled upon a review of a new Jeannette Walls book and I was very excited to get my copy. It's an easy read for sure and a quick one. Overall, I liked it. It had the same feel as GC (Liz and Bean vs Lori and Jeannette, carefree Mother) and as I started to read I was excited for the adventure I was about to take part in, however it ended up feeling like I had ridden the kiddie Dragon Roller Coaster rather than the 200ft drop mega coaster, if you get what I mean. Although there are strong similarities between this book and GC, GC was more detailed and developed and really kept the reader drawn to the story. I can only guess it's because the author had so much more to go on because she had lived the story in GC, unlike this book. Each day when I picked the book up to read more about Bean & Liz's journey and then new life in Byler, I was waiting to get to the 'good part'; where the story would really take that turn into GreatBookLand, but it never did. Don't get me wrong, it's a good story and I will recommend it, but it was no sheer page turner. Level 1 Glass Castle if you will...a good starter book. One review I read said to think of The Silver Star as a prequel to what's to come and looking back at the story line and ending, I can see how this could be possible and I actually am hoping it will turn out that way. In the mean time, I will just reach over for my copy of GC when I want a good read. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #102,600 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #321 in Biographical & Autofiction #793 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #4,676 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (9,175) | | Dimensions | 5.25 x 0.6 x 8 inches | | Edition | Reprint | | ISBN-10 | 1451661541 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1451661545 | | Item Weight | 2.31 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 304 pages | | Publication date | June 3, 2014 | | Publisher | Scribner | ## Images ![The Silver Star: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71P7Hsxxz-L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ""The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple". ( Oscar Wilde as cited by the author.) *by K***R on June 11, 2013* This is a stunningly apt quote for this glimmering story of Bean, 12, and Liz, 15. Similar to Walls' other books, their mother is narcissistic and unstable. However this mother is fictional and brings a fresh profile to this book. She and the girls live in California, but she disappears sporadically to seek work as a star or to pursue a man. Despite her avowal that nothing would be as important as her two girls, she leaves them for months with $200 for pot pies. When social services get too close, they travel to Virginia to stay with their certainly eccentric Uncle Tinsley. After Bean begs to bury her pet turtle Fido, the girls capture his heart, and he brings them into his home. Our narrator Bean is preternaturally wise with the charming erratic naïveté of a young girl. She isn't much for suffering fools,but she has befriended a number of the marginal of a failing mill town. Endearing is Aunt Al of the poor side of the family who nurtures the girls in her own way. Her children think "I hung the moon and scattered the stars." Her cousin Joe is that jewel in the rough, the honorable country boy. In the hands of a less skilled writer, the entire cast could easily go to pieces in a morass of cliche, but this author breathes life into her characters and enable them to encounter the inevitable powerful town boss with a fresh approach. The prose bears the mark of a small Southern town, and addresses the problems of the day with the Californian born Bean's take on the then shocking issue of integration. Many of us have awaited this book with anticipation, and I can say it has been worth the time. Those of you new to Walls will be treated to a talented writer. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good, not great, but enjoyable *by S***5 on June 24, 2013* Like most other reviewers, I will preface my review by stating that The Glass Castle is one of my all-time favorite books. I try to pass my copy onto anyone who will take it. I was so thrilled with GC that I purchased her follow-up Half Broke Horses, which I also thoroughly enjoyed and lent to my mother to read. Somehow last month, I stumbled upon a review of a new Jeannette Walls book and I was very excited to get my copy. It's an easy read for sure and a quick one. Overall, I liked it. It had the same feel as GC (Liz and Bean vs Lori and Jeannette, carefree Mother) and as I started to read I was excited for the adventure I was about to take part in, however it ended up feeling like I had ridden the kiddie Dragon Roller Coaster rather than the 200ft drop mega coaster, if you get what I mean. Although there are strong similarities between this book and GC, GC was more detailed and developed and really kept the reader drawn to the story. I can only guess it's because the author had so much more to go on because she had lived the story in GC, unlike this book. Each day when I picked the book up to read more about Bean & Liz's journey and then new life in Byler, I was waiting to get to the 'good part'; where the story would really take that turn into GreatBookLand, but it never did. Don't get me wrong, it's a good story and I will recommend it, but it was no sheer page turner. Level 1 Glass Castle if you will...a good starter book. One review I read said to think of The Silver Star as a prequel to what's to come and looking back at the story line and ending, I can see how this could be possible and I actually am hoping it will turn out that way. In the mean time, I will just reach over for my copy of GC when I want a good read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great read. *by K***E on September 2, 2025* This was much better than the first one. Really liked the characters. Almost want to know how they all turned out. Enjoyed it very much. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Silver Star: A Novel - Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel - Hang the Moon: A Novel --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/1694920-the-silver-star-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/1694920-the-silver-star-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-05-01*