I just read Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
Rating: 10
Here's the teaser:
Yolanda is a great big girl and strong for her age, bigger and
stronger and smarter than anyone else in the fifth grade. She is cool
and streetwise, too, and afraid of no one. It's easy for her to watch
out for her little, first-grade brother, Andrew. But their mother, a
legal professional and a widow, is concerned about crime and drugs in
her children's Chicago school. She moves them all to a smaller and,
she hopes, smaller town.
Yolanda, at first, is scornful of her new town. And Andrew, who never
talks much, is having trouble learning to read. What he loves to do is
play on the old harmonica given to him as a baby by his father to
teethe on and which he's kept blowing ever since. He can imitate any
sound he hears, like bacon sizzling, or express any mood he feels,
like the freshness of an early morning. Yolanda understands that
that's the way he "talks." She is convinced Andrew is a true genius
with a great musical gift. But no one else believes it—not her mother,
nor Andrew's teachers, not even wonderful Aunt Tiny in Chicago.
Yolanda sets out to open up adult eyes, a task whose strategies will
call on far more than her physical toughness. Her plans crystallize on
a visit back to Chicago to enjoy the great annual blues festival with
Aunt Tiny.
This book is great for music lovers and boys and girls! Ages: 9-12
Hope you read over Easter or Passover!!
XoXo,
Kelly
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