Danitra Brown Leaves Town

What a lovely story of two best friends. The summer has begun and they will be split. Danitra leaves to visit her family. The book is about their summer without each other. The two girls write letters back and forth about their summer adventures. They are in the format of poems in the book. I think this makes the book so much more interesting. My favorite poem is the last one titled "Home Again". This is when the two girls are reunited. It is a short and simple poem but expresses so much. I feel like it was a very good poem to conclude their summer apart. The illustration on this page also makes the poem better. It is the two girls embracing.
The illustrations overall are very good. I am not sure how they were done but they add so much to the poems which leave a lot of room for imagination. I also love the fact that this book is a different race other than Caucasian.