Dear Whiskers Author:Ann Whitehead Nagda Jenny is totally uninterested in the assignment given out by her teacher: each student in the fourth grade has to write a letter to a student in the second grade. Not only that, in the letter they have to pretend to be mice. Jenny has a hard time thinking of what to write in her letter and is disgusted when the reply she gets, from a student nam... more »e Sameera, is short and boring. However, when Jenny meets Sameera she realizes that the little girl, recently immigrated from Saudi Arabia, is shy and doesn't speak much English. Inspired, Jenny attempts to reach out to Sameera and make her feel welcome in the United States. Illustrated with b&w drawings.« less
Everyone in Jenny's class has to write a letter to someone in another class and pretend they are a mouse. Jenny's penpal writes back...Something seems mysterious about Jenny's pen pal. Wil lJenny discover her secret?