Alone Like Me

ISBN-10: 0593181921
ISBN-13: 9780593181928
Author: Evans, Rebecca
Illustrated by: Evans, Rebecca
Interest Level: P-3
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: May 2022

Copyright: 2022

Page Count: 40

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$16.19
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Interest Level

Grades P-3

Reading Level

Lexile: AD560L
Accelerated Reader Level: 3.0
Accelerated Reader Points: 0.5

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / New Experience

Description
In this beautiful, heartfelt picture book, a young girl moves from a small village to a big city in China, where she longs to find a friend...and ultimately meets someone very much like her. Liling and her family have moved from their rural farm to an overwhelming urban city. Because of Chinese law, Liling can't go to school and spends her days with Mama or Baba at work. At the playground, the other children throw sand at her and tease her old red coat and dirty shoes. But after she shares a smile with a girl in a bright yellow jacket who lives in an apartment beneath hers, Liling has a big idea! She draws a picture and lowers it down to the girl--Qiqi--who returns it with a drawing of her own. When the new friends meet face to face, Liling takes Qiqi's hand, and they walk bravely into the park--together. With luscious watercolor illustrations and lovely poetic text, this achingly beautiful story is about our universal desire for connection, and the comfort we feel when we find a true friend.