Laima starts at a new school. At lunchtime she is bullied, but two other girls intervene and make friends with her. Each page of text is illustrated. Recipes and teaching notes are appended.
JURA REILLY is an Australian-Lithuanian author of three previous novels, each drawing upon stories told by her great- aunts, Irena and Viktoria, who had endured many years of exile in Siberia and her immediate family, who had migrated as Displaced Persons to Australia in the wake of WW2. She has published "Laima's Lunch / Laimos Pietūs" as the first in a series of bilingual children's books.
