An absolute classic read aloud. This story can be used in any lower elementary grade, but is great for the third grade when studying Africa. It also teaches its audience that family is what we make of it.

The genre of this book is Multi-cultural literature because it discussed the African girl living within the United States. Grace's family split up through a divorce. Half live in America and half live in Africa. She visits her father, his new wife, her new brother and sister. She experiences African culture, food, dress and money. She concludes that though there are no fairy tales like her own story that she is alright with being different.

The media used in this book is water color. ( )

This book is about a girl who feels that living with her mom and grandma is not the correct way families are supposed to be. She thinks that a family should be set up a particular way. Her mother and father are divorced and Grace is sent to go visit her father for a while with her grandma and discovers more than just the right family.

I enjoy this book as a multicultural book because it not only allows students to see how divorced parents live but also the culture that Grace's father was living in while in Africa.

I would relate this to the classroom by letting the students decorate the classroom in an Afican style with clothing draped around and also animals around the room to represent Africa living. ( )

This story is a great story about how a young lady came to figure out that she is the same her families formation is different, but differnt is okay. Grace discovers through books that not many of them have families where the parents are divorced, but hers are and she decides to make a trip to meet with her Dad in Africa. At first this trip is disappointing and then she comes to love and enjoy how her family has expanded.

I love this book, because not only is it multicultural in the fact of the characters it deals with divorce and lots of your students are experinceing the came things that Grace is experiencing.

As one of my classroom extension we are going to have a word wall about some of the words that the book uses for items in Africa and then I am going to read Amazing Grace to my class for another classroom extension. ( )