Dear Baobab
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Maiko has left his village in Tanzania far behind, moving to North America with his aunt and uncle. When he thinks of home he thinks of the large Baobab at the centre of the village. Maiko adopts the spruce tree in the front yard of his new hom - it's seven years old, the same as him. The tree sings to him and shares his secrets. When he learns that the roots of the tree are growing too close to the house, putting the little spruce in danger of being cut down, Maiko knows he can't let that happen. He knows all too well what it's like to be small, and planted in the wrong place.
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Maiko misses his baobab tree, back home in Africa. He misses almost everything about home in Africa, but he really misses his baobab tree. He discovers a new confidant in the little spruce tree in his new home, a tree, he soon learns, that is growing too close to the house and will have to be cut down.
A warm story about learning to fit in.
“Sometimes, he sat on the step and shared secrets that he told to no one else. He talked of his village and the baobabs, and how he missed his friends at the school where he had gone after his father and mother died. He told of how lonely he felt as the wind blew him across the wide ocean in an airplane, and how strange it was, at first, to sleep in the red brick house.”
