There Goes the Neighborhood
Valerie Lupini
Canadian Library Association Honour Book • Red Cedar Book Award Nomination
Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / Prejudice & Racism
Ages 9–14 • 176 pages • 5 x 8 1/2"
ISBN 0–88995–128–4 paper • CDN 6.95 • USA 6.95

When the construction of monster houses alters Ivy's Vancouver neighborhood, she plans a defiant prank. When it backfires, she wonders if her life will ever be the same again. Deals not only with issues of race and cultural values, but also addresses how we cope with change.

Reviews
"The success . . . is due to the sober, carefully observed portraits of the children and their cultural differences."
–Books in Canada

"A powerful, thought-provoking story that handles discrimination, compromise, uprooting and friendship meaningfully . . . It is also lively and entertaining."
–Kliatt