Lily’s New Home (Confetti Kids #1)

(Dive Into Reading)
By Paula Yoo, Shirley Ng-Benitez
Paperback: $10.95

In this early chapter book in the popular Confetti Kids series, Lily and her parents move from their suburban neighborhood to New York City and Lily must adapt to her new life.

Description

Lily and her parents move from their suburban neighborhood to New York City. Lily is used to living in a house on a quiet street. When they arrive at their new apartment, Lily notices the amount of activity all around. Kids play jump rope on one corner. Buses and taxis zoom by. Lily feels like a small ant on such a busy block and worries that she’ll never feel at home. As she and her parents explore their new, multicultural neighborhood, Lily discovers that sometimes change can be a good thing.

About the Creators

Paula Yoo

Paula Yoo is an author and screenwriter whose children's books for Lee & Low include Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds, Shining Star, and several titles in the Confetti Kids series. Her titles have been recognized by the International Reading Association, the Texas Bluebonnet Award Masterlist, and Lee & Low's New Voices Award. She and her husband live in Los Angeles, California, where she works in television. You can visit her online at paulayoo.com.

Shirley Ng-Benitez

Shirley Ng-Benitez is a Bay Area children’s book author/illustrator who has illustrated 35+ children’s books, and has a background in Graphic Design (GabbyandCo.com), and hand-lettering (American Greetings, Inc.). She works and experiments in traditional mediums including watercolor, gouache, pen&ink, oils, and painted & cut-paper collage. Her work draws from a deep wish to add more compassion and connection in the world through her art and stories. She founded @AWEtober on Instagram, an annual art auction fundraiser since ’20, whose efforts have raised tens of thousands for various organizations supporting victims of the California wildfires, and efforts in coral reef restoration around the globe. She lives with her family and two black cats, and is thrilled to be working on her debut picture book, DOWN, THROUGH, UP by Quill Tree Books, Winter ‘25. Please visit shirleyngbenitez.com for more.

Awards

  • CCBC Choices

    Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)

Reviews

  • "The simply written story introduces aspects of urban living in an appealing way. . . Readers who enjoy Lily's upbeat story, the first beginning-reader book in the publisher's new Dive into Reading series, will also want to check out Want to Play?, the simultaneously published second volume about Lily and her friends."

    - Booklist
  • "A debut early reader from Yoo and Ng-Benitez introduces a refreshingly diverse cast of characters in an urban setting."

    - Kirkus Reviews
  • "While Paula Yoo has written excellent books for older readers, she proves herself to be just as good at writing for new readers, which is no easy task. . . Most remarkably, Yoo and Ng-Benitez together have created truly engaging child characters living in a vivid realistic world with just a few masterful lines of text and ink."

    - Reading While White

Paperback

  • ISBN 9781620142585
  • Price $10.95
  • Publication Date Feb 15, 2016
  • Trim Size 9 × 6 in
  • Weight 0.1875 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Word Count 431
  • Hardcover

  • ISBN 9781620142493
  • Price $14.95
  • Publication Date Feb 15, 2016
  • Trim Size 9 × 6 in
  • Weight 0.5 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Interests

  • Imprint Lee & Low Books
  • Audience Children
  • BISAC Category 1 JUV / Social Themes / Friendship
  • BISAC Category 2 JUV / Social Themes / New Experience
  • BISAC Category 3 JUV / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings
  • Themes African / African American / Black, Childhood Experiences and Memories, Comparing / Classifying / Measuring, Cultural Diversity, Families, Fiction, Friendship, Home, Identity / Self Esteem / Confidence, Multiple Ethnicities Represented, Neighbors, Overcoming Obstacles, Realistic Fiction, Similarities and Differences
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 5 - 7
  • Grade Range Grades K - 2
  • Guided Reading J
  • ATOS Book Level 2
  • DRA 18
  • Lexile Level 420
  • Reading Level Grades 1 - 2
  • Bebop Reading Early Fluent
  • This Book is Included in These Collections:

    ADA Site Compliance-Accessibility Policy