A review by writteninblue
Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend by Dawn Quigley

5.0

For first grader Jo Jo Makoons Azure, a young Ojibwe girl, life can be pretty perplexing sometimes. Like why does her cat, aka her best friend, refuse to talk to her before she leaves for school? Why does Teacher insist that couch and touch don’t rhyme? Why does her best friend abandon her to sit with a bunch of other kids and then leave an empty space at the table? Oh. Ohhhhh.

Jo Jo is a lovable protagonist who is unintentionally very funny and also tries very hard to be a good friend (sometimes being friendly is easier than other times, though). Readers will laugh, cheer, and relate to her.