Age: Kindergarten-3rd grade

As the only brown girl in a classroom full of white students, the main character feels on display when African American history is discussed and wants to sink into the ground in order to escape the spotlight and the need to represent an entire race of people. She knows that she should be grateful to go to school and learn--and she is!--but her white classmates are also giggling behind her back or approaching her with racist hogwash. Despite this solitary experience, she grows up to be a doctor and a mother of a child who is also the only brown girl in her class. The mother encourages her daughter to be proud of her history and feel that strength inside her, even if she's the only one to have experienced it in her class.

An incredibly relatable experience for children that have experienced otherness based on their skin color and an equally important window book for white children to understand how their snickering stares can affect their classmates.