Recently, I got to the the amazing Farah Rocks Florida book for MCBD, Multicultural Children’s Book Day. I have been a part of the MCBD community for many years now and I really enjoy the opportunity to learn and read books set in places around the world featuring voices I may not have heard before.
This year, I got to read and review Farah Rocks Florida. I really enjoyed the book and the characters and the plot. It’s a great read!
Farah Rocks Florida is written by by Susan Muaddi Darraj and illustrated by Ruaida Mannaa. It joins the series of other Farah Rocks books.
Farah lives with her mother, father, and brother in Baltimore. But when her brother wakes up in the middle of the night with his heart feeling weird, her entire life changes. With her mother looking after her brother and her father working all day, Farrah has to go to Florida to stay with her Sitti Fayrouz. On the plane, she meets a grumpy old man, who she’s glad to get rid off when she leaves. You can imagine her surprise when the old man turns out to be staying in the same colony as her grandmother. She tries to ignore him, but slowly she starts warming up to him and gets the other residents to feel the same way. As the book progresses, she realizes that life in Florida isn’t so bad and that everyone there is great.
I really enjoyed this book and all the references to Greek mythology. Farah is a great character and I loved reading about her life.
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I was so happy to learn more about another book in the Farah series! Thank you for sharing with Multicultural Children’s Book Day. I hope that you can join us tonight at 9 pm EST for our Twitter Party. We will be giving away book bundles every 5 minutes and I think Farah Rocks Florida is one of the books!
Great review! I look forward to learning more about this series.
Thanks so much for joining us for Multicultural Children’s Book Day!