Her grades and effort are not what they used to be, and while her teachers and friends notice her downward trend, no one really knows why this has occurred. This is the topic of most conversations swirling around Ari even her best friend is obsessed with it. She took on a fictional account of a realistic problem in order to pique her young reader’s minds and interest about youth homelessness.Īri is in her last year of elementary school in a gifted program, and like all the students around her, she is curious about where she will end up for her first year of middle school. Jacobson, like Lynda Mullaly Hunt, isn’t afraid to paint a struggle for her readers. I immediately borrowed it from my own library (ha!) and dove in. It felt like fate, then, when one of my students donated some books to my classroom library (how lucky am I?! I have such thoughtful kiddos). Reasoning: narrator has lost both parents she is also dealing with homelessness Summary and ReviewĪ few students had recommended this text to me, and I think even my soul sister, who has a tremendous blog about books, had told me to give it a read.
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