Tell Us We're Home, by Marina Budhos
YA, 2010
Jaya, Maria, and Lola are just like the other eighth-grade girls in the wealthy suburb of Meadowbrook, New Jersey. They want to go to the spring dance, they love spending time with their best friends after school, sharing frapps and complaining about the other kids. But there's one big difference: all three are daughters of maids and nannies. And they go to school with the very same kids whose families their mothers work for.
That difference grows even bigger - and more painful - when Jaya's mother is accused of theft and Jaya's small, fragile world collapses.
Guest Reviewer GG: This was a nicely done story about three immigrant girls and the challenges they face. The story inevitably leaves you hanging, but not without hope. I think it should be required reading for a high school social studies class.
Graded: 3 1/2 stars (out of 4)
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