The Homesick Club

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This book is a fresh twist on the "new student" storyline, focusing on the efforts of two young students to make their new teacher feel included. By inverting the traditional narrative, it is the young protagonists who are the authorities (on being homesick and being new), as well as the active creators of a welcoming environment.A secondary theme unites the main characters through a shared longing for a more nature-based, less urban environment. Although they are from different geographic regions (rural Texas Hill Country, the tropical region of eastern Bolivia and the desert region of southern Israel), they each miss the sights, sounds and connections they had to the natural world.The book includes a recipe for Hummingbird Cake, an iconic Southern treat.Curriculum connections include Language arts / reading, Social Studies / geography, friendship, immigration, family, heritage and identity, Science / astronomy