![]() ![]() Transition is, the reasons families might emigrate, and how readers Otherĭiverse students fill the classrooms, including a child in a wheelchair.Īn author’s note tells O’Brien’s own immigrant story, how difficult the New settings to highlight the transition from outsider to friend. ![]() Space, and the contrast between the children “back home” and in their Watercolor-and-digital illustrations masterfully use perspective, white Shared words, artwork-and feel like part of a community. Gradually, each child begins to bridge the gap-soccer, stories and Fatimah’sĬhallenge is abstract: she cannot find her place in this new classroom. Letters close the door to the wonderful world of stories. For Jin, writing is the trouble the scribbles of American Clever, phonetically spelledĭialogue balloons bring home to readers how foreign English sounds to Though back home, “Our voices flowed like water and flew between us likeīirds,” the sounds of English elude her. Portraying only one challenge each must overcome rather than Readers meet Maria, from Guatemala, Jin, a South Korean boy, andįatimah, a Somali girl who wears the hijab. Readers walk in the shoes of three students struggling after immigrating to the United States. ![]()
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