Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 4.8
Lexile Measure®: 650L
DRA: 30
Guided Reading: N
Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Family Life
- European
- African American
- Respect
- Tolerance and Acceptance
- Friends and Friendship
- Prejudice and Tolerance Experiences
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About This Book
With the rich folk-art style and lively text for which she has become well-known, Patricia Polacco has created an outstanding family story of trust, love, and acceptance. After her own grandmother dies, a young Russian-American girl is initiated into her neighbor's family. She and her "brothers" devise a plan to buy "grandmother" an Easter bonnet. They learn a lesson of respect and tolerance along the way.About the Authors or Illustrators
Award-winning author Patricia Polacco has always been a phenomenal artist, but it wasn't until she was 41 years old that she started writing children's books. She writes in both Eastern European and mid-western American voices.
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