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The day you begin

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There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it’s how you look or talk, or where you’re from; maybe it’s what you eat, or something just as random. It’s not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical text and Rafael López’s dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes – and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway.

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ISBN: 9781408373613 Category: Children's - Non-Fiction Tags: Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Self-awareness & self-esteem, Picture storybooks
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There will be times when you walk into a room
and no one there is quite like you . . .

It might be how you look or the way you talk, where you’re from; maybe it’s what you eat or what your hair is like. Feeling like an outsider can be scary at first, but the day you begin to share your stories might just be the day others find the courage to share theirs too.

A lyrical story about celebrating differences, from award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson.

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Weight 0.21 kg
Dimensions 29.2 × 23.8 × 0.6 cm
Author

Woodson, Jacqueline

Publisher

Orchard Books

Imprint

Orchard Books

Cover

Paperback

Pages

32

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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