Jamaica finds a stuffed dog at the playground and after taking him home without trying to find the owner discovers her conscience as well. Jamaica’s honest and appealing character inspired five more books, each about a childhood ethical dilemma. Jamaica’s Find celebrates its twentieth anniversary with this new edition featuring an author’s note in the paperback edition.

Jamaica's Find

Children's Books

Havill, Juanita

Literature & Fiction

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Jamaica finds a stuffed dog at the playground and after taking him home without trying to find the owner discovers her conscience as well. Jamaica’s honest and appealing character inspired five more books, each about a childhood ethical dilemma.

Jamaica's Find (Reading Rainbow)

Biographies

Clarion Books

Jamaica doesn't want a younger child to play with her, until she remembers how she felt when her older brother excluded her from his games.

Jamaica Tag-Along

HMH Books for Young Readers

Mama tells Alicia a story about Mama and her family when she was a little girl in Mexico. After napping, Alicia awakens to find that the Mexican treasures of that past time are a very special part of her own life.

Treasure Nap

Geography & Cultures

Jamaica and Brianna

Tired of wearing her hand-me-down boots from her brother Ossie, Jamaica is hurt when her friend Brianna teases her about them. By the author of Jamaica Tag-Along.

Jamaica finds a stuffed dog at the playground and after taking him home discovers her conscience as well

Jamaica's Find (Carry Along)

While her classmates are making cards for Russell, the school bully who is moving away, Jamaica decides that she does not want to give him a card, but something soon happens to change her mind.

Jamaica's Blue Marker

It's wintertime again, and Jamaica has to wear her brother Ossie's hand-me-down boots. She finds herself envious of her friend Brianna's pink boots with the fuzzy cuffs, and Brianna teases her about her ugly, old "boy" boots. But one word brings reconciliation for the two friends.

Jamaica likes the substitute teacher right away. Mrs. Duval is very nice, and she thinks of interesting things for the class to do. When the kids have to hunt for a hidden object, it's Jamaica who solves the clues. She figures out all the answers to the math puzzles, and Mrs. Duval praises her reading, too. But when it's time for the spelling test, Jamaica realizes that she is not prepared. Wanting so badly to please Mrs. Duval, she makes a poor decision. What will Mrs. Duval think of her now? In this new story about a favorite character, Juanita Havill and Anne Sibley O'Brien depict a small but significant crisis with tact and sensitivity.

Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher

Growing Up & Facts of Life

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Jamaica's Find

Jamaica's Find (Reading Rainbow)

Jamaica Tag-Along

Jamaica Tag-Along

Treasure Nap

Jamaica and Brianna

Jamaica's Find (Carry Along)

Jamaica's Blue Marker

Jamaica and Brianna

Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher