Archive for February 2023

By Kaity, Age 8 A book that makes me feel finally seen is Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park. Julia and her family are Korean (just like me!) But it seems like Julia isn’t proud of her culture, even though I love sharing my Korean culture. When Julia is doing a project about silkworms for…

By Raphael, Age 9 Finally seen. It’s a feeling inside me, it’s a feeling that awakens my spirit, my inside spirit. I feel that spirit in books, but the book that has that true spirit in my heart is Planet Earth Is Blue by: Nicole Panteleakos. It’s a book about two girls who are in…

By Jase, Age 8 Hi, my name is Jase, and my book for Finally Seen is The Underdogs, Author: Mike Lupica. I have a connection to the underdogs, because this book makes me feel like people finally see my value in sports, especially soccer and basketball. An example from the book is that the main…

By Shea, Age 10 I felt like I was finally seen in the book Willodeen, because I felt like I was really creative when I was younger but in Willodeen the main character named Willodeen felt like she was really creative and did not belong either. But when Willodeen finds a best friend, she feels…

By Jiya, Age 9 The book that has made me finally seen is New From Here. This book made me feel seen because the family has to go from China to the U.S. and it made me think of my parents when they traveled from India to the U.S. The main character Knox and her…

By Luiza, Age 9 I felt finally seen when I read the book Guts because she had a lot going on with her teeth and she had to get braces and I got invisaligns and she really had a hard time going through it and so am I. Even though she isn’t brazileon, I can…

By Anna, Age 10 When I read Bounce Back, I learned about a girl named Koko and her family, who decided to change their place of living from China to America. Koko didn’t really want to move, as she didn’t understand English well and was worried that she wouldn’t be able to make friends in…

By Madilyn, Age 10 The book that made me feel finally seen is I, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak. I, Cosmo is about a golden retriever that tries to keep his family together while everything is falling apart around him. My family was falling apart like Cosmos. That made me feel like I wasn’t the only…

By Aleigha, Age 9 Out of My Mind is a big deal to me; it makes me feel seen. My cousin, Molly, had cerebral palsy and the girl in Out of My Mind has cerebral palsy, and that makes me feel seen and it makes me happy for Molly and it tells people how hard it is, and…

By Zoey, Age 10 The book Ways To Make Sunshine is by Renée Watson and it makes me feel finally seen because the main character, Ryan Hart goes through the struggles of something hard, which is her moving houses and I’ve gone through something hard like that emotionally with split parents. At the end of the book…