My friend
Title
:
My friend
Personal Author EPSB
:
Elisa, Amado
Summary
:
Friendship -- to be known, to be accepted as you are, to feel safe, especially when you are vulnerable. The girl in this story has recently arrived in Brooklyn with her family. On her very first day at school she meets a girl who almost instantly becomes her very best friend. She feels known, loved and accepted by her. But when she invites her friend to come for dinner with her family -- a family that feels free to eat weird food and, even worse, burst into song with their version of a sentimental classic of longing and homesickness -- something shifts and she no longer feels safe at all. What will it be like tomorrow at school?
Year Published
:
2019
Physical Description
:
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly colour illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Subject
:
First day of school -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Moving, Household -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Guatemala -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Summary
:
Friendship -- to be known, to be accepted as you are, to feel safe, especially when you are vulnerable. The girl in this story has recently arrived in Brooklyn with her family. On her very first day at school she meets a girl who almost instantly becomes her very best friend. She feels known, loved and accepted by her. But when she invites her friend to come for dinner with her family -- a family that feels free to eat weird food and, even worse, burst into song with their version of a sentimental classic of longing and homesickness -- something shifts and she no longer feels safe at all. What will it be like tomorrow at school?
ISBN
:
9781554989393
Publisher
:
Toronto : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, [2019]
©2019
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| A. Blair McPherson | E AMA [MUTUAL RESPECT] | Book | 31458100052995 | Picture Books |