Chicken Sunday

Title: Chicken Sunday

Author: Patricia Polacco

Grade Level: Picture Book

            Neighbors. We all have a few, for better or for worse! Relationships in neighborhoods can be complicated. In this neighborhood, it doesn’t matter if you are black or white, Jew or Gentile, Russian or Ukranian. Each ethnicity can come together for a common purpose: to do a good deed. In this case, it was to buy Miss Eula a hat. She had been admiring a hat in the shop window for weeks. The children want to buy it for her for Easter. On their way to shop, they are mistaken for rabble rousers. Can they prove that they are innocent and buy Miss Eula her hat? This story reminds us that no matter what neighborhood we are part of; we can also be kind and help others.