Silkworms, can you get any more Korean than a silkworm project? When Julia and Patrick joined the Wiggle Club (Work-Grow-Give-Live) they need to find a project dealing with husbandry. I know that living in the suburbs will make it very difficult to find an animal to raise, but why can't we do an American project? When my mother suggest that we do a silkworm project, I was not the least bit thrilled, but Patrick is excited. Maybe we won't be able to find the silkworms only food source, a mulberry tree, if we can't find a tree Patrick and I will HAVE to pick another topic. My best friend Patrick, yes I am a girl and he is a boy, really wants to do this project, but I don't. What is I don't tell him that the reason I don't want to do the project is because I feel it is way too Korean, I risk my friendship with Patrick because I am being stubborn. After I finally agree to do the project I then get to deal with the fact that my mother is racist against black people. This reality hits home when the only mulberry tree in our area is in Mr. Dixon's backyard, a black man. When we visit Mr. Dixon, my mother is very apprehensive about Patrick and I going to his home to gather food for the silkworms. Why had I never noticed that my mom was racist? Things in my past are finally clear I can see that when I had a black teacher my mother spent a lot of time asking me questions about her, I thought she was concerned that she was a bad teacher, but was it because she was black? See how much I learn about myself, friendship and my mother being racist.
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Reading age level 9-12 years old
Clarion Books, 2006
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