Available August 28, 2018
The story is told from Haley's point of view and is told mainly through a flashback about her 5th grade year in a "special" class with 6, no 5 other people. The kids are all diverse: Dominican, African-American, Caucasian, etc. and each one is dealing with different things: parent immigration status, parent in jail, parent dead, racial prejudice, etc. They pretty much become a family as they are given space to just be them on Friday afternoons. Haley decides to record their stories, so she will have them as memories. Through these recordings she tells about her year in Ms. Laverne's class and how each kid deals with their situation. She explores her feelings about her own situation with her dad and uncle and determines to begin building her relationship with her dad by the end of the book...
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