My Best Friend

CRITICS HAVE SAID

  • This is more situation than story, but the setting makes things special. The action takes place during the weekly playgroup at the neighborhood pool, and Lewis’ beautiful, realistic double-page watercolors convey everything–the longing, the meanness, and the fun–through the body language and the splashing action of little African American girls in sunlit water and at the poolside.
    –Booklist

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  • English, Karen. Hot Day on Abbott Avenue. Clarion, 2004.
  • Havill, Juanita. Jamaica and Brianna. Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
  • Joosse, Barbara M. Hot City. Philomel, 2004.
  • Krosoczka, Jarrett J. My Buddy, Slug. Knopf, 2006.
  • O’Neill, Alexis. The Recess Queen. Scholastic, 2002.
  • Raschka, Chris. Yo! Yes? Orchard, 1993.
  • Winthrop, Elizabeth. Lizzie & Harold. Lothrop, 1985.