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Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book (2009)

by Nikki Grimes(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0399251766 (ISBN13: 9780399251764)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Putnam Juvenile

review 1: Listening to the audio book Rich by Nikki Grimes was an excellent way to read this story. Diamond shares with Free that life doesn't always have to be about money. Free isn't too excited by this concept especially since he really wants a new video game. During school one day, they hear about a poetry contest where the first place winner can win $100. Free thinks this is an excellent way for him to be able to earn some $. Diamond befriends Damaris who loves poetry and also enters the contest. Diamond shares a secret with Damaris and promises to not tell anyone else until Damaris decides to share it with the whole world. Diamond, Free and Damaris learn throughout their poetry contest adventure that life isn't always about money and things, it is also about having fami... morely and friends. Appropriate book for grades 3-8 and would provide a great book discussion for kids to have in regards to how important money is to us.
review 2: Bravo to Grimes for addressing some tougher topics so matter-of-factly and non-pityingly (this is not trauma lit) in a beginning chapter book that she makes it look easy. The first: one many might not think of as a tough topic, but one that I know is fraught with meaning for many who have grown up poor: shopping in secondhand stores. Dyamonde enjoys it, calls it treasure hunting, and can't imagine why you wouldn't want your clothes to have a past; her best friend, Free, is skeptical, but comes around after finding his idea of a treasure (not clothes, but a jar of marbles for 50 cents). The second: the fact that some schoolkids live in shelters, like Grimes's character Damaris, who runs from Dyamonde the day Dyamonde sees her walking out of a homeless shelter. Dyamonde's a thoughtful kid, while at the same time a direct one, never pretending away something she's observed. As she was at getting Free to open up about his anger in book one, in "Rich" Dyamonde's a natural at finding a way that feels safe for Damaris (who's tired of hiding but averse to anyone feeling sorry for her) to talk about her current life at the shelter. I liked this second book in the Dyamonde Daniel series even better than the first. less

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