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The Day You Begin

Author: Woodson, Jacqueline

Follett Number: 1025LMX
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books, 2018
Format: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-399-24653-1
ISBN-10: 0-399-24653-3
LCCN: 2017-059887
Dewey: -E-
Classifications: Fiction; Easy

Subjects:
Friendship Fiction
Immigrants Fiction
Individuality Fiction
Picture Books
Schools Fiction
Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.

From the publisher:
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpr Illustrator Award winner Rafael L pez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone. There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael L pez's dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway. (This book is also available in Spanish, as El D a En Que Descubres Qui n Eres )

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