Almost Zero: A Dyamonde Daniel Book (#3)

Dyamonde Daniel has her eye on a new pair of red high-top sneakers. Following some bad advice from a classmate, she thinks she has the right idea to go about getting them ¿ by demanding her mother buy them! Unfortunately for Dyamonde, Mrs. Daniel doesn¿t appreciate being told what to do and decides to teach her daughter a lesson. Soon Dyamonde finds herself in a clothing crisis, with almost zero to wear!
Dyamonde is furious. But she begins to realize that some people have troubles much greater than hers . . . including her friend, Isabel Martinez, whose family has suffered a real crisis. Deciding she must she must help the Martinez family, Dyamonde enlists the aid of everyone she knows to do so.
Witty and endearing, this heart-warming tale ¿ read by Nikki Grimes herself ¿ beautifully displays the difference between ¿wanting¿ and ¿needing.¿