"Diarou is starting her first week in a new school, in a new country, speaking a new language... and she feels completely alone. She moved to the U.S. from Guinea over the summer and is determined to make friends, but with her limited English, she's having trouble communicating with her classmates. Just when she thinks she might be on her own, she meets another new student who’s struggling too. Can Diarou find a way to connect across language barriers to make a true friend? The authors of this story are part of an innovative program run by Reach Incorporated. Reach develops grade-level readers and capable leaders by preparing teens to serve as tutors and role models for younger students, resulting in improved literacy outcomes for both. Learn more at reachincorporated.org. Books were created in collaboration with Shout Mouse Press. Shout Mouse is a nonprofit writing and publishing house dedicated to amplifying underheard voices. Through writing workshops that lead to professional publication, Shout Mouse empowers writers from marginalized backgrounds to tell their own stories in their own voices and, as published authors, to act as agents of change. Learn more at shoutmousepress.org" -- publisher
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Cross Group, Race/Culture Concepts
Content: Bi/multilingual
Settings: Northern America, United States of America
Ethnicity: Guatemalan, Guinean, Unspecified
Tribal Affiliation/Homelands: Maya
Immigration: Immigrant/Migrant
Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman, Unspecified
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American, Brown-Skinned and/or Race Unspecified, First/Native Nations/American Indian/Indigenous, Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American
Cross Group Sub: Central, Direct, Resolving
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary