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Sturgis, Brenda Reeves

Still a Family

32 pp. | Whitman | January, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8075-7707-3 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Jo-Shin Lee. A girl in a biracial family explains that she and her mother are in one homeless shelter while her dad is in another, reuniting daily in parks and soup kitchens. Sensitively written from the child's first-person perspective--with a repeating refrain, "we are still a family"--the book fittingly includes childlike crayon and watercolor drawings. An author's note offers further discussion about homelessness. Websites.
Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

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