Review: Terrific Tale!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2014
This is a great book, written from a 10 year old's perspective while traveling with her mom to Uganda.  I love that she talks about how most of the people she knew from Atlanta, Georgia thought she would be going into an area with wild animals and huts made out of cow poop and dried grass.  It's a great journey beginning with Jane's hesitation and worry that she will be bored without her video games, a plane ride, and the pleasant surprise of landing in Uganda and meeting up with people who speak English.  It's a fun book and I like how Jane makes a new friend in her host family and helps her do her chores, then compares how she lived back in Georgia to how they live in Uganda.  This book is an insightful look about how different families and people live in different parts of the world.  It makes a good point about not believing everything you hear and being willing to learn and share new things.  When Jane mentions her fear of wild animals to Nakato (the girl from the host family) she is surprised to learn Nakato has never seen wild animals, which warrants a trip to the local zoo.The girls spend a lot of time together learning about each others lives and customs.  It's an interesting book that would be great to read and talk about with a children's group.  My kids loved it!