2012, Houghton Mifflin
160 pgs.
HC $15/99
Goodreads rating: 3.85
my rating: It was a very good book/4
1st sentence/s: "Ray, the crossing guard, is waiting at the curb in his orange vest the catches the sunrise."
Setting: A small city or large town, somewhere in the US, where's there's some winter and ice. Contemporary.
OSS: Anna's 4th grade year is spent dealing with being alone, discovering what it means to be a friend, reading, and beginning to learn Chinese.
Quick, good read for 3rd or 4th grade girls. Anna, American-born although her mother was born in China, puts up with a mean friend and a friend who is being pulled and manipulated by the mean one. The good friendship wins out, and Anna survives quite well because she's enjoying books so much, reading is way for her to help cope. She's also, somewhat reluctantly, going to Chinese School for the first time to learn the language, but meets a new friend there. Anna easily makes friends with adults and is a wonderfully thoughtful, creative young person. A good side-story is that her mother is studying to be a nurse while still struggling with the English language. On Saturdays Anna accompanies her to a cleaning job....she enjoys spending time with her mother's elderly boss, but is embarrassed to be seen with her mother carrying a bucket full of cleaning supplies.
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