"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?"--publisher
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Beautiful Life, Cross Group
Settings: New York, Northern America, United States of America
Ethnicity: Mexican, Unspecified
Immigration: Immigrant/Migrant
Gender: Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American, White/European American/Caucasian
Cross Group Sub: Central, Direct, Positive, Resolving
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary