The beauty of the muted tones and spareness of the illustrations allow readers to feel the small conflicts in the text. Whereas the embarrassing scenario could be repeated with the girls’ younger sister, Rubina convinces her mother to reconsider, and Sana is allowed to go solo. Expert pacing takes readers to the day when Sana is invited to her first party. It’s a long time before Rubina is invited to another one. When Rubina comes home with a birthday-party invitation, her mother asks why people celebrate birthdays, as her culture does not, and insists that Rubina take her little sister along despite the older child’s insistence that “they don’t do that here.” Sana is a brat par excellence at the party and steals Rubina’s candy. Gr 2–4- This sibling-rivalry story compares well with Kevin Henkes’s Sheila Rae’s Peppermint Stick (HarperCollins, 2001).
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