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\"\"*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong>
\n“[T]he school wanted to try something new: Could they put [six] kids together in a room with one teacher and make something amazing?” For Ms. Laverne’s fifth\/sixth grade Brooklyn, N.Y., class, the answer is a resounding yes. Deemed “special kids,” Haley, Holly, Ashton, Amari, Tiago, and Estaban “learned differently.” To enhance their regular schedule, the six are ushered every Friday afternoon into a former art room, cleverly renamed the “A-R-T-T room \u2013 A Room To Talk,” and encouraged “to talk about the things kids talk about when no grown-ups are around.”<\/p>\n

The children are initially unsure how to interact, but compassionate concern quickly unites them when Estaban’s father goes missing: Ms. Laverne’s empathic lesson, “I want each of you to say to the other: I will harbor you,” is already well-ingrained. Safe in ARTT, the children share such things as U.S.-born Estaban’s worries for his parents, immigrants from the Dominican Republic; Amari’s restricted freedoms as an African American youth; Ashton’s discomfort with white privilege and his struggles with bullying; Tiago’s clashes with racism despite being Puerto Rican and therefore American; Holly’s challenges of everything she considers “unfair.” Haley, the book’s narrator, records the group’s stories until she’s finally ready to share her own difficult experiences.<\/p>\n

In her first middle-grade novel since her 2014 National Book Award<\/a> winner, Brown Girl Dreaming<\/em><\/a>, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature<\/a> Jacqueline Woodson deftly alchemizes a sixth-grade classroom into an affecting metaphor for racial, political, and socioeconomic challenges \u2013 enhanced by the transformative power of storytelling: “what matter[ed] most is that we were heard.” Bonded and buoyed by their shared “stories on top of stories,” Woodson’s sextet commit to meet again in 20 years; readers should start praying now to be privy to what promises to be an astonishing reunion.<\/p>\n

Discover<\/strong>: Jacqueline Woodson’s Harbor Me<\/em> is a powerful love letter to effective teachers, unexpected friendship, and the healing magic of hearing, recording, and sharing words.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: \u201cChildren & Young Adult,\u201d Shelf Awareness<\/em>, September 4, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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