My Heart Will Not Sit Down
by Rockliff, Mara
Ezra Jack Keats Award/HonorsHelping OthersCameroonHistorical FictionU.S.Canadian Children's Book Centre
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AR Book Level
4.4
AR Points
0.5
Word Count
1,669
Interest Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
148827 EN
About this book
In 1931 Cameroon, young Kedi is upset to learn that children in her American teacher's village of New York are going hungry because of the Great Depression, and she asks her mother, neighbors, and even the headman for money to help.