Kele's Secret
Illustrator
Catherine Stock
Publisher
Lodestar Books
Publication Year
1997
ISBN
9780773730076
Pages
27 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Eggs mark the spot - the secret spot where Kele the chicken has been laying. Light hearted game of detective in this account of a boy's adventure on his grandmother's coffee farm in Tanzania.
Grade Level
K-3
Lexile Measure
710L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Legal guardianship; grandparents raising grandchild; grandparents raising grandson
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
Black (Tanzanian)
Family Formation
grandmother and grandfather
Awards
Best Children's Books of the Year, 1998 Five to Nine Today
Kaleidoscope, A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8, Third Edition, 2001
Keywords
grandparents; eggs; chickens; scavenger hunt; village market; hen; fear
Diversity Impact
indirect
STARS Citation
Mollel, Tololwa Marti, "Kele's Secret" (1997). Diverse Families. 708.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/708