The Day You Begin

The Day You BeginA #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two time Pura Belpr Illustrator Award winner Rafael L pez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone. There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpr Illustrator Award winner Rafael L pez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.

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 L pez'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.

(This book is also available in Spanish, as El D a En Que Descubres Qui n Eres )

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
Published: 08/28/2018
ISBN: 9780399246531
Pages: 32
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.70h x 9.30w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/11/2018
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2018 pg. 128
School Library Journal 08/01/2018 pg. 55
Booklist 08/01/2018
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2018 pg. 72
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2018 - Book Of Special Distinction
Shelf Awareness 08/31/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 197645 / Day You Begin
Reading Level: 4 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5