This is a great book that incorporates two issues that children often have to deal with: adaption and racial issues. The book, told in the first person, focuses on two adapted children of two different cultural backgrounds. Highly reccommended--it will teach your children that not everybody in the world is the same.

When I first started this book, I found it boring and I wanted to stop reading it but something told me not to and I was curious about the ending. The main character Bobby Lee grows on you and so do her friends and little town. It is magical if you really let yourself in. I read it in 2 days :-)

I must admit - after I bought it, I blamed myself for wasting money, and I put the book aside for about...oh, let's say 2 years. I found it somewhere, somehow, and I didn't have anything to do, so I sorta started the book. From that day, I was known as "The Book Girl" in my class. My nose was always in the book, even in class, lunch, and recess! After I finished the book, I read it over and over and over and over.... I'm still reading it right now......Trust me, it never gets old.

Bobby Lee Pomeroy is a sympathetic, believable character who comes alive under the sure touch of Sherry Bunin. The book is rich with descriptive, appropriate figures of speech, even to two (anachronistic) uses of "pissed off." This is the perfect book for readers who themselves aspire to become writers. Highly recommended.