Tessa's Lost and Found

Star Darlings #9

by Shana Muldoon Zappa, Ahmet Zappa

As more and more disturbing things happen on Starland, the Star Darlings gather each morning to try to unravel clues to what’s wrong. One unimaginable theory is that Lady Stella herself is behind all the trouble.

In the meantime, Tessa is selected to travel to Wishworld where she finds herself in a perfect spot for her—an animal shelter. When a terrible storm occurs, Tessa and her Wisher Lizzie must work together to take care of the helpless animals in the shelter, all while Tessa tries to discover Lizzie’s real wish and help grant it before time runs out.

Genres: Fantasy, Middle Grade, Childrens, Science Fiction

176 pages, Paperback

Published May 3, 2016

Reviews

[c.norman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tessa is another Star Darling who hasn’t been given much time until now, and that made the beginning of this book a bit strange.

Tessa gets distracted easily, which we are told in her bio, but we never really got to see this until now, and seeing through her eyes as he is late to class, or loses focus in conversation, is a bit…well…distracting.

The Starland portions of this book are somewhat uneventful, but the Wishworld part makes up for it by being a little different.

Instead of being in a school setting like most of the previous ones, Tessa winds up volunteering at an animal shelter. And the person she is to help will be moving away in a few days, making her deadline to fulfill the wish more real.

Tessa’s mission is one of my favorites of the books so far, and I’m glad to see that this time our Star Darling pretty much had every thing figured out before help arrived. It didn’t stop Adora from showing up to help, but by the time she got there Tessa had figured out what her wisher really wanted, she just need to make it happen.

This book ends with another cliffhanger, but this time the stakes are higher as three of the Star Darlings are trapped! What will happen next?

[Hannah Belyea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tessa would rather be baking and playing with virtual pets than suspecting that Lady Stella has something to do with all the problems of Starland, but she and her friends will have to face the facts if they hope to save their home planet! Zappa will keep all eyes glued to this fantastic entry in a series brimming with magic and charm. Can Tessa help her Wisher in time, or is time about to throw the Star Darlings off course?

[Carla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, there are several reasons that I gave this a 3 star (liked it) and not a star higher. (If you've read the book, then, you'll get the pun there) I really wanted to like this book more, but, just couldn't. Anyway, I rather enjoyed the first 90 pages of the story (even if I had to pop back into the glossary a few times to figure out what the authors were talking about), which happened on another world, then, it popped to our world and Tessa having to fulfill a wish. The next 41 pages felt hurried through as if the authors went - yeah, yeah, we've got to have Tessa fulfill a "wish" so she can get back home, so, let's hurry this up, and not really have a reason to do all of this (it would have been better if they had taken their time with the wish part and had Tessa learn a valuable lesson about something, not scurry through it). The last 10 pages were about Tessa back home again. And if you've been keeping count that's only 141 pages (there's a glossary, acknowledgements, author page, and a sneak peek that does bring the whole book to 171 pages, but, the whole story is only 141! So, it's short!) I did enjoy the writing style, but, drowned in all the star-this star-that and thought a lot of the star named things were way over done. Sure have a few star themed words or items - I would have giggled at them when I was a kid - but, in this, it was over done, over the top, and some things were given brand new names just to "make" them feel different. (A muffin is still a muffin!). This is the only book of this series that I've read - it's number 9 - and fair warning, it leaves on a cliff hanger, so, be aware.

[salma sarwar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Be careful about how much is that it would have done!

[Christina · Rating 1 out of 5]

Extremely boring. Not even my little sister and eight year old neighbor e enjoyed this book.

[Reja]

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[Aldene · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did not think this book was Starmazing but my kids like it

[elaaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Shana & Ahmet are the best writer ever! This book is so fun

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book and it answered some questions I had about what was happening on Starland - though of course not all of them!

[Juani 1207 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I rally liked that we could ser more obout tessa, I want to know what is going on in starland.

[Fathimah Azzahra · Rating 3 out of 5]

actual rate: 3.5 stars.

not my cup of tea, but still fine.

[Aria · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it. It reminded me of how greatfull i am of my friends 🧡

[Gina]

Finished 6/22/16

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a great book to read

[Rand]

great

[Amber]

It was a really good book and I am doing my homework project on it. I'm Almost Done!!!