Flora la Fresca & the Art of Friendship Asian and she's got a whole

and she's got a whole lifetime's worth of them

But what Kela wants most is for her mother to be alive

A Morris Award Finalist

How many books can Billy collect

In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson's What It Is

Flora la Fresca & the Art of Friendship Asian and she's got a wholeFrom an NYT bestselling author comes the first in an illustrated middle grade series about a Panamanian American girl who uses humor and a little mischief to navigate her best friend moving away and her sisters overbearing and all consuming quince preparations. Flora Violeta LeFevre, aka Flora "la Fresca" (so called because she tells it like it is, occasionally to her parents' chagrin) can always count on her best friend Clara Ocampo Londra to turn