Where I Live – Friends

Multicultural Themes in the Juvenile Collection

Where I Live – Friends

Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson. There is a new boy in class everyone calls the Jesus Boy. He looks like a white kid, he says he's not white. Who is he? Frannie starts seeing things in a new light--her brother Sean's deafness, her mother's fear, the class bully's anger, her friend's faith and her own desire for "feathers."

Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling. Sylvia wanted to enroll in school. Aki wanted to stay on her farm and finish the school year. The two girls never expected to know each other, until their lives intersected. Aki was relocated to a Japanese internment camp and Sylvia was sent to a "Mexican" school, Sylvia's father challenges the separation of races in court.