The Flavor of Friendship

Josie’s best girlfriend moved to The Bronx at the end of third grade and now Josie was starting fourth grade 
without that someone special. Josie did have Frankie and for that she was grateful. But Frankie was a boy 
and she needed someone to have girl talk with. With Frankie’s help, Josie searches for that friend.

This endearing saga of lost friends and newfound friends takes place in New York City in 1960. Josie shares
the experiences of her fourth grade year at Most Holy Redeemer, a Catholic grammar school on the Lower
East Side. Little did Josie know that the daily Kool-Aid sales run by her and her classmates would be the
backdrop for the most consequential event of her entire year, a crisis that threatened her school, her future
and that of her friends.

Author Eileen Jedlicka has spent her entire life in the classroom…first as a student and then as a teacher. It
has always been “home.”