What's the good in keeping secrets? Rafaella doesn't find it easy to make friends. She looks and feels different from the others at school. And Lucy is the first to tease, the first to call her "Earwig," until they get to know one another and Lucy sees that Rafaella is full of...
A book about real dilemmas that children face every day - full of warmth and by an award-winning author. "It's crazy, starting at a new school. For days you feel so new and lost it's as if you've wandered into a foreign country where you can't speak the language."...
Although the other girls at middle school make fun of Rafaella and she avoids her when they are around, Lucy gradually gets to know her and her foreign family and is devastated when she learns the result of all the teasing Rafaella has endured.