A poignant story about the difficulties of leaving everything b. On, edit images, videos and 360 photos in one place. When tenyearold drita and her family, refugees from kosovo, move to new york, drita is teased about not speaking english well, but after a popular student named maxine is forced to learn about kosovo as a punishment for teasing drita, the two girls soon bond. How can drita find her place at school and in her new neighborhood when she doesn. Powtoon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume. Readers will empathize with both characters, as they watch two girls who desperately need each another slowly find their way to real friendship. The book provides a useful springboard for enticing younger readers to learn the stories of refugees who may live in their communities and go to. Drita, my homegirl, told in alternating chapters by drita and maxie, follows a friendship from its beginning stages in an honest and endearing way. Drita, my homegirl ebook by jenny lombard 9781101200544.
Drita my homegirl by jenny lombard drita is a tenyearold girl who moved to the united states to escape wartorn kosovo. A poignant story about the difficulties of leaving everything behind and the. Drita is a wonderful main character who any reader can relate to if theyve ever had to face a new school. A poignant story about the difficulties of leaving everything behind and the friendships that help you get through it. She and her family are forced to flee their home country with only the clothes on their backs and face ma. But with this hope comes the struggle to adapt and fit in. Drita, my homegirl ebook by jenny lombard rakuten kobo. For drita, she hopes that america will be a wonderful, peaceful place but finds her classmates purposely ignoring her but maybe they just need to get to know her. This ebook details that marriage can be a real killer. This activity was created by a quia web subscriber. Booksource is the premier trade book distributor to k12 school classrooms across the country. Kindle ebooks can be read on any device with the free kindle app. A sensitively written story of two worlds coming together, drita, my homegirl by jenny lombard touchingly explores the effects of war on a family and how. Read drita, my homegirl by jenny lombard available from rakuten kobo.
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