BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Noemi and her mama are fleeing the violence in their village. When they arrive at the border, they are told to find the notebook keeper and get their name in the book. As they wait for days, and then weeks, then months, Noemi wonders how each notebook keeper is chosen.
The back matter teaches that until Covid shut down the border, each notebook keeper was someone waiting for their own number to be called. Briseno and Mora tell a poignant story that very few people would previously know. I was glad to learn from them. The illustrations have just the right dreamy, washed look to them and very pretty end papers and a unique cover wrap.
Cindy Mitchell, Library Teacher, MLS
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