My Heart Speaks Kriolu

By Stefanie Foster Brown, Keisha Morris (Illustrator)

A girl struggles with language and identity, seeking her true home.

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40 pages

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Bookroo's summary

A young girl walks with her grandfather every Saturday, learning about her Cabo Verdean roots. Though she stumbles over Kriolu, the language of her heritage, she senses its presence in her Massachusetts community. As she guides her sight-impaired grandfather, she questions if she can ever truly belong to a place she's never seen. Can she find her true home between two worlds?

From the publisher

On Saturday walks with her grandfather, a young girl connects with her Cabo Verdean heritage while learning about the true meaning of home in this moving debut picture book. Papa always speaks of someday bringing his granddaughter back home to Cabo Verde. But the young girl has never set foot on their ancestral island’s faraway shores. And each time Papa urges her to speak Kriolu, the Portuguese creole native to the West African country, the girl’s tongue betrays her, and she stumbles over her own words. If she can’t even get the language right, can her grandfather’s home ever truly be hers, too? But each Saturday afternoon when she helps guide her sight-impaired grandfather through their close-knit Massachusetts community, the girl swears she can smell, hear, feel Kriolu. And each Saturday she comes closer to discovering where home truly lies.