Tell Us We're Home

Jaya, Maria, and Lola are just like the other eighth-grade girls in the wealthy suburb of Meadowbrook, New Jersey. They want to go to the spring dance, they love spending time with their best friends after school, sharing frapp s and complaining about the other kids. But there's one big difference: all three are daughters of maids and nannies. And they go to school with the very same kids whose families their mothers work for.

That difference grows even bigger--and more painful--when Jaya's mother is accused of theft and Jaya's small, fragile world collapses.

When tensions about immigrants start to erupt, fracturing this perfect, serene suburb, all three girls are tested, as outsiders--and as friends. Each of them must learn to find a place for themselves in a town that barely notices they exist.

Marina Budhos gives us a heartbreaking and eye-opening story of friendship, belonging, and finding the way home.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 05/04/2010
ISBN: 9781416903529
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.30w x 0.98d

Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/2010 pg. 35
Kirkus Review - Children 04/01/2010
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2010
School Library Journal 06/01/2010 pg. 96
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2010 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
New York Times Book Review 08/15/2010 pg. 12
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 137861 / Tell Us We're Home
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 10