However, I would recommend this book to my students and love the messages of perseverance and identity to the reader.
Sixth grader Emilia Rosa Torres sometimes has a hard time keeping up with schoolwork and concentrating on one thing at a time, but her software-developer mother and superinvolved abuelita help her keep on task.
I was not expecting the ending and am not entirely sure I liked the ending. unearthed in this delicately rendered but rather pallid adaptation of a novel. A nuanced novel about a neurodiverse preteen’s political and social awakening by a Pura Belpr Honorwinning author. I chos this book because another teacher recommended it to me. But it isn’t until she learns to accept not knowing that Heidi truly arrives.-Amazon Overall Thoughts When a strange word in her mother’s vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.įar away from home, pieces of her puzzling history come together. Although she lives an unconventional lifestyle with her mentally disabled mother and their doting neighbor, Bernadette, Heidi has a lucky streak that has a. In fact, everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother’s past is a mystery. It Weeks, Sarah Published by HarperCollins (2005) ISBN 10: 0064410471 ISBN 13: 9780064410472 New Paperback Quantity: 14 Seller: Save With Sam (North Miami, FL, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Paperback. She doesn’t know when her birthday is or who her father is. Now a major motion picture starring Alfre Woodard, Jessica Collins, John Heard, Jacinda Barrett, Cloris Leachman, and Talitha Bateman-in theaters October 2017!įrom acclaimed author Sarah Weeks comes a touching coming-of-age story about a young girl who goes on a cross-country journey to discover the truth about her parents, which the New York Times called “a remarkable novel.” Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me and Ali Benjamin’s The Thing About Jellyfish.
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