some places more than others renee watson

After convincing her mom to let her go on the trip, Amara and her father fly from Portland to New York to spend a week with their family. It is the perfect opportunity for her to learn more about her family while documenting anything and everything while on her trip. The students are to create a time capsule, using old suitcases, with things that represent their life both present and past. I don’t recall where I first heard about this book only that when I read the synopsis (and when I saw that gorgeous cover) I knew I had to read it.Īmara’s desire to meet and connect with her extended family in Harlem only increases when she is assigned a project at school called the Suitcase Project. I read this book for fun and wasn’t planning to write a review but by the time I finished it and realized just how special it was, I knew I had to share a little something about it. But as she learns more and more about Harlem-and her father’s history-Amara realizes how, in some ways more than others, she can connect with this other home and family. Her dad doesn’t speak to her grandpa, and the crowded streets can be suffocating as well as inspiring.

Plus, she wants to visit every landmark from the Apollo to Langston Hughes’s home.īut her family, and even the city, is not quite what Amara thought. She can’t wait to finally meet her extended family and stay in the brownstone where her dad grew up.

Her wish comes true when her dad decides to bring her along on a business trip.

“ All Amara wants is to visit her father’s family in Harlem.

Some places more than others renee watson