Yolonda is "a great big girl and strong for her age, bigger and stronger and smarter than anyone else in fifth grade". She is cool and streetwise, too, and afraid of no one. It's easy for her to watch out for her little first grade brother, Andrew. But their mother, a legal professional and a widow, is concerned about crime and drugs in her little children's Chicago school. She moves them all to a smaller and she hopes, safer town. Yolonda, at first, is scournful of her new town. And Andrew, who never talks much, is having trouble learning to read. What he loves to do is play on the old harmonica given to him as a baby to teethe on and which he's blown on ever since. He can imitate any sound he hears. Yolonda is con vinced that he is a little "genius" with his harmonica, and tries to open adult eyes.
This book's called Yolonda's Genius, by Carol Fenner. I liked this book because it shows how intelligent and powerful children's minds can be, and how adults sometimes barely reckonizes it. I recommend this book to every children in the world. Report end.
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