Picking up where Ibtisam Barakat's first memoir

she gets to know the residents of Xavier’s Latin American neighborhood

and Sasha are fed up

and the group discovers the clues to save Nothing may reside in the lost legends of the past

as well as in the resilience and traditions her people have brought all the way to the North Dakota prairie

The Junkyard Wonders Phil Stamper Picking up where Ibtisam Barakat'sA heartwarming story of friendship and celebrating our differences and the teachers who help us shine from master storyteller Patricia Polacco, author of Thank You, Mr. Falker. In this story based on the author illustrator's own childhood, Patricia Polacco once again celebrates the power teachers have to help us discover the potential we each hold. Young Trisha is devastated when she finds out that her class at her new school is known as the junkyard.