Speak up, Tommy!

By Jacqueline Dembar Greene

Subjects: Police, Immigrant children, Human-animal communication, Immigrants, Dogs, fiction, Police, fiction, Police dogs, Fiction, Children's fiction, Picture books for children, Israelis, Human-animal relationships, fiction, Jews, united states, fiction, Language and languages, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Jews

Description: Tommy, who recently moved to America from Israel, is teased because he does not know English well and so does not speak loudly, but when a police officer visits Tommy's class with a police dog that only understands Hebrew, friendship blooms.