The Doll Whisperer
ISBN: 9781546106395
Format: Boxed Set
Grades: 1 – 2
Book Description
Amani is about to start school in the United States. She and her family moved from Pakistan from a place called Thatta Kedona or Village of Dolls. Amani misses her old life and assisting her mother with doll making. She wonders whether she will ever feel the magic she used to feel there.
The Doll Whisperer is one of the books in the Scholastic series called Our Voices: School & Friends. These readers are designed to cultivate empathy and enhance reading skills with 10 stories about friendships and school experiences that center on children from diverse backgrounds. Although the characters in each story come from different cultural backgrounds, their experiences, which include feeling first-day jitters, making new friends, and conquering fears, are universally relatable.
