Dyamonde Daniel returns in this fifth installment of the award-winning series! Dyamonde and her best friend Free compete over everything, from sports to homework to setting the dinner table. Their bets are normally fun, but after Dyamonde goes on a winning (and bragging) streak, things turn rocky. Free stops coming over. He won’t return her calls. Then suddenly, he starts hanging out with other kids in the neighborhood. With their friendship at risk, Dyamonde must work to follow her mother’s advice: “Sorry is good, but sorry can’t fix everything.”
Dyamonde Daniel returns in this fifth installment of the award-winning series! Dyamonde and her best friend Free compete over everything, from sports to homework to setting the dinner table. Their bets are normally fun, but after Dyamonde goes on a winning (and bragging) streak, things turn rocky. Free stops coming over. He won’t return her calls. Then suddenly, he starts hanging out with other kids in the neighborhood. With their friendship at risk, Dyamonde must work to follow her mother’s advice: “Sorry is good, but sorry can’t fix everything.”
Loser (A Dyamonde Daniel Book, Book #5) Trade Book (Hardcover)
Written ByNikki Grimes
Illustrated byUzo Njoku
Written ByNikki Grimes
Illustrated byUzo Njoku
Dyamonde Daniel returns in this fifth installment of the award-winning series! Dyamonde and her best friend Free compete over everything, from sports to homework to setting the dinner table. Their bets are normally fun, but after Dyamonde goes on a winning (and bragging) streak, things turn rocky. Free stops coming over. He won’t return her calls. Then suddenly, he starts hanging out with other kids in the neighborhood. With their friendship at risk, Dyamonde must work to follow her mother’s advice: “Sorry is good, but sorry can’t fix everything.”
Dyamonde Daniel returns in this fifth installment of the award-winning series! Dyamonde and her best friend Free compete over everything, from sports to homework to setting the dinner table. Their bets are normally fun, but after Dyamonde goes on a winning (and bragging) streak, things turn rocky. Free stops coming over. He won’t return her calls. Then suddenly, he starts hanging out with other kids in the neighborhood. With their friendship at risk, Dyamonde must work to follow her mother’s advice: “Sorry is good, but sorry can’t fix everything.”
Dyamonde Daniel returns in this fifth installment of the award-winning series! Dyamonde and her best friend Free compete over everything, from sports to homework to setting the dinner table. Their bets are normally fun, but after Dyamonde goes on a winning (and bragging) streak, things turn rocky. Free stops coming over. He won’t return her calls. Then suddenly, he starts hanging out with other kids in the neighborhood. With their friendship at risk, Dyamonde must work to follow her mother’s advice: “Sorry is good, but sorry can’t fix everything.”
Nikki Grimes is a New York Times bestselling author and was inducted into the Black Authors Hall of Fame in 2023. Her honors include the CSK Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award, the ALAN Award for significant contributions to young adult literature, the Children’s Literature Legacy Medal, and the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. Author of the Coretta Scott King Award-winner, Bronx Masquerade, and five Coretta Scott King Author Honors, she won the Printz Honor and Sibert Honor for her memoir, Ordinary Hazards.
Uzo Njoku
Uzo Njoku is a versatile visual artist well known for her mesmerizing motifs used in her pattern making. Her colorful paintings primarily depict melanin figures in different forms and in various contexts of beauty, all while incorporating Uzo’s beautiful patterns to create contrast and depth.
Dyamonde Daniel returns in this fifth installment of the award-winning series! Dyamonde and her best friend Free compete over everything, from sports to homework to setting the dinner table. Their bets are normally fun, but after Dyamonde goes on a winning (and bragging) streak, things turn rocky. Free stops coming over. He won’t return her calls. Then suddenly, he starts hanging out with other kids in the neighborhood. With their friendship at risk, Dyamonde must work to follow her mother’s advice: “Sorry is good, but sorry can’t fix everything.”
Dyamonde Daniel returns in this fifth installment of the award-winning series! Dyamonde and her best friend Free compete over everything, from sports to homework to setting the dinner table. Their bets are normally fun, but after Dyamonde goes on a winning (and bragging) streak, things turn rocky. Free stops coming over. He won’t return her calls. Then suddenly, he starts hanging out with other kids in the neighborhood. With their friendship at risk, Dyamonde must work to follow her mother’s advice: “Sorry is good, but sorry can’t fix everything.”
JUVENILE FICTION / A
JUVENILE FICTION / African American & Black JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship Juvenile Fiction / Readers / Chapter Books
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Dyamonde Daniel returns in this fifth installment of the award-winning series! Dyamonde and her best friend Free compete over everything, from sports to homework to setting the dinner table. Their bets are normally fun, but after Dyamonde goes on a winning (and bragging) streak, things turn rocky. Free stops coming over. He won’t return her calls. Then suddenly, he starts hanging out with other kids in the neighborhood. With their friendship at risk, Dyamonde must work to follow her mother’s advice: “Sorry is good, but sorry can’t fix everything.”
Author & Illustrator
Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes is a New York Times bestselling author and was inducted into the Black Authors Hall of Fame in 2023. Her honors include the CSK Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award, the ALAN Award for significant contributions to young adult literature, the Children’s Literature Legacy Medal, and the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. Author of the Coretta Scott King Award-winner, Bronx Masquerade, and five Coretta Scott King Author Honors, she won the Printz Honor and Sibert Honor for her memoir, Ordinary Hazards.
Uzo Njoku
Uzo Njoku is a versatile visual artist well known for her mesmerizing motifs used in her pattern making. Her colorful paintings primarily depict melanin figures in different forms and in various contexts of beauty, all while incorporating Uzo’s beautiful patterns to create contrast and depth.
