No Place Like Home
by James Bird
Pub Date 08 Aug 2023
Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, Feiwel & Friends
Children's Fiction | Middle Grade
I am reviewing a copy of No Place Like Home through Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, Feiwel & Friends and Netgalley:
If your only home is a car, life is unpredictable, not even meals or schooling is a guarantee. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays.
Opin, his Mother and Brother Emjay are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting. Emjay has taken to disappearing for days, slowing down the family's progress and adding to their worry.
After Opin finds a stray dog that needs him as much as he needs her, his longing for a stable home intensifies, and his brothers reckless ways hit an all time high.
Opin makes a new friend in the shelter, but shelters don’t allow dogs…
Will anything other than a real home ever be enough?
No Place Like Home would be a great book to broach the topic of homelessness , and poverty especially as it relates to Native Americans, and a great way to remind young readers that just because someone doesn't have a home, that doesn't mean they don't have goals.
I give No Place Like Home five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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