When shy, enigmatic Damaris also enters the competition, the duo becomes a trio. A poetry contest with a cash reward offers Free the hope of a coveted video game. Free, whose father’s job loss has meant unfamiliar and unwelcome belt-tightening, is challenged by ever-optimistic Dyamonde to rethink his definition of what it means to be poor. “Dyamonde liked to know everything, and she’d made up her mind that she was going to get to know Damaris Dancer.” Third graders Dyamonde and her friend Free make a new friend and discover what it really means to be rich. Halfway to Perfect: a Dyamonde Daniel Book (Book 4) You'll enjoy the other books in the series:Īlmost Zero: a Dyamonde Daniel Book (Book 3)
Dymonde’s can-do attitude and lively spirit will endear her to readers. In this fantastic follow-up to Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel, Nikki Grimes tackles big issues like homelessness in a sensitive, kid-friendly way. And when they get to know Damaris, they realize the one who could use the prize money the most also happens to be the best poet in class. The prize is one hundred dollars-just think what they could buy with that much money! But when they find out that Damaris, one of their classmates, has been living in a homeless shelter, their ideas about what it means to be rich or poor start to change. |y .Dyamonde Daniel is excited about the local library’s poetry contest, and so is her friend Free. |a African Americans |v Juvenile fiction.
|a Decoding demand: 83 (very high) |a Semantic demand: 92 (very high) |a Syntactic demand: 83 (very high) |a Structure demand: 84 (very high) |b Lexile |a Free is excited about a local poetry contest because of its cash prize, but when he and Dyamonde befriend a classmate who is homeless and living in a shelter, they rethink what it means to be rich or poor. |a Rich : |b a Dyamonde Daniel book / |c Nikki Grimes illustrated by R.
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