This story is about a young girl named Nicola. She begins the story by telling the readers about her sister and how they love each other a lot, but sometimes still get into fights just like all sisters do. Then Nicola mentions that she and her sister look alike, because they were both adopted from Korea. Nicola’s parents both have wavy hair and blue eyes because they adopted her and she grew in someone else’s belly. At first she thought did not think anything about looking different from her parents but when she noticed that all of her friends seemed to look just like their parents it began to bother her. After observing more closely all of the families around her she realizes that none of them are “normal” and that they are all different. She realizes that the most important part of a family is the love that they have for each other.
I think this would be a great book to use in the classroom. This book does an excellent job of showing how everyone in this world is different and no two people are alike. As an activity I would have my students do a self portrait of themselves and have them try to really put detail into. Then after everyone had finished I would make a huge collage on the wall and title it our classroom family. This would be a good representation of how not all families are alike, and everyone is different in their own way.
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