My Street, My Friends


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Four children Dee, Robert, Helen, and Lance all grew up together on the same street. They have known each other since age five. They are now age ten to eleven years old. Their street is a rarity in these times. It is a stable urban neighborhood. Most of the residents in this block have been there for years. Everyone watches out for one another. This is a story about how neighbors support the children while they are preparing for a scooter competition that is being held at the neighborhood community center. This is a story of resilience. It shows how a neighborhood is important to the youth and their families. This is a positive book that can be read by all ages. It is the authors hope that those who read this book will see just how important their neighborhood can be in enhancing their childrens lives.




I Just Ate My Friend


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John Klassen’s I Want My Hat Back meets Lucy Ruth Cummins’s A Hungry Lion in this hilarious, deadpan story about a creature looking for a new friend after eating his last one. A little creature is looking for a new friend, but he’s not having any luck. Why is he looking for a new friend? Because he ate his old one. Heidi McKinnon delivers a hilariously macabre story with colorful illustrations and a satisfying, dry wit.




The Friend


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Best Friends


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Can you have more than one best friend? This relatable Step into Reading story is for every young reader navigating new friendships. Friendships can be complicated, even when you’re only in elementary school! This leveled reader, about two best buddies whose friendship is disrupted by a new kid at school, will reassure children that there is enough friendship to go around when you widen your circle to include everyone! And the simple, rhyming text will be readily mastered by emergent readers, leading to a feeling of accomplishment. Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.




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Pretty Boy


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A true story of victorious flat bottom to high is the limit.




The Friends' Library


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I Can Show You the Way Life Goes


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Tillie lives in her own worlda world where life is all play and no work. She hopes that one day she will have the family that she dreams ofa family with a husband and children, a family that lives in a nice house and has a nice car. Now an adult reminiscing on her life, she wonders what happened to her dreamshow her life went so horribly wrong, how she hit rock bottom. In her youth, she had strong beliefs and convictions, with a supportive group of family and friends; somewhere along the way, though, she became lost in a world of drugs and bad choices. As an adult, she struggles to regain her former life and to become part of her family once again. I Can Show You the Way Life Goes follows Tillie through a carefree childhood filled with many blessings, through a downfall in which she believes the devil played a vital rolethe kind of realization that can only occur later in life, when one can clearly see what went wrong. As she tries to make sense of everything that has happened in her life, she realizes that its never too late to turn your life around.