Jacqueline Jules is an award-winning author and poet. Her many children's books include The Hardest Word (National Jewish Book Award finalist), What a Way to Start the New Year! A Rosh Hashanah Story, and Moses and the Runaway Lamb. She lives in Long Island, New York.

Told in verse, fourth grader Trudie Hamburger feels out of place in 1962 America due to her immigrant father and Jewish identity, until a new classmate and an accident help her embrace her differences.