Almost Zero, Nikki Grimes
Almost Zero, Nikki Grimes
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Almost Zero
A Dyamonde Daniel Book

Author: Nikki Grimes

Narrator: Nikki Grimes

Unabridged: 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2013


Synopsis

Dyamonde Daniel has her eye on a new pair of red high-top sneakers. Following some bad advice from a classmate, she thinks she has the right idea to go about getting them – by demanding her mother buy them! Unfortunately for Dyamonde, Mrs. Daniel doesn’t appreciate being told what to do and decides to teach her daughter a lesson. Soon Dyamonde finds herself in a clothing crisis, with almost zero to wear!Dyamonde is furious. But she begins to realize that some people have troubles much greater than hers . . . including her friend, Isabel Martinez, whose family has suffered a real crisis. Deciding she must she must help the Martinez family, Dyamonde enlists the aid of everyone she knows to do so.Witty and endearing, this heart-warming tale – read by Nikki Grimes herself – beautifully displays the difference between “wanting” and “needing.”

About Nikki Grimes

Nikki Grimes is the recipient of the 2006 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. Her distinguished works include the ALA Notable book What Is Goodbye?, as well as the novels Jazmin’s Notebook, Dark Sons, and The Road to Paris, all of them Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books. She won the Coretta Scott King Author Award for Bronx Masquerade. Ms. Grimes lives in Corona, California. Visit Nikki at NikkiGrimes.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cherese

This book is about a little girl named Dyamonde Daniel who listens to some not so good advise from classmate and ends up losing most of her clothes as a punishment. However, Dyamonde learns a very important lesson and redeems herself in this cute, short chapter book. I won this book in a giveaway fr......more

This is the first book I've read in the Dyamonde Daniel series for early readers (J/E) and I really enjoyed it. It's a different world from what many of the kid's in my neighborhood are familiar with and it has a great lesson to teach but not in a preachy way. Dyamonde wants some new red high-tops a......more

Goodreads review by Shay

Dyamonde is a young African American girl with a growing personality. She is caring and unique but is still learning the lessons of life. When Dyamonde wants something another person has, she demands her mother buys it for her. Dyamondes mom, caught off guard, teaches Dyamonde the lesson of grateful......more

Goodreads review by Amber

Almost Zero is about an African-American third-grader Dyamonde Daniel. Dyamonde's classmate Tameeka has recently gotten new hightop sneakers and Tameeka tells Dyamonde that she should tell her mother that it is her mom's job is to buy her what she needs and that she needs new sneakers. Dyamonde goes......more