When Charley Met Emma
Title | When Charley Met Emma PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Webb |
Publisher | Beaming Books |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 2019-03-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1506480233 |
Winner of the 2019 Foreword INDIES Award Bronze Medal, When Charley Met Emma teaches kids about disability, empathy, and the beauty of friendships with people who are different from you. When Charley goes to the playground and sees Emma, a girl with limb differences who gets around in a wheelchair, he doesn't know how to react at first. But after he and Emma start talking, he learns that different isn't bad, sad, or strange--different is just different, and different is great! This delightful book will help kids think about disability, kindness, and how to behave when they meet someone who is different from them.
Awesomely Emma
Title | Awesomely Emma PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Webb |
Publisher | Beaming Books |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2020-09-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1506466672 |
I love being me, because me is an awesome thing to be! Emma has limb differences, but different isn't bad, sad, or strange. It's just different! But when some accessibility problems get in the way at the local art museum, it ruins the fun of a class trip...and then Emma's friend Charley makes things even worse! In the middle of a really bad day, Emma has to call upon her sense of inner awesome to stand up for herself and teach everyone a lesson about the transformative power of feeling awesome in your own skin. Amy Webb's follow-up to When Charley Met Emma, Awesomely Emma will have all kids cheering as they learn to see the inner awesome in themselves and those around them.
Not-So-Weird Emma
Title | Not-So-Weird Emma PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Warner |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 145 |
Release | 2007-05-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1101567589 |
emma Mcgraw is slowly making friends at her new school. but when Cynthia calls her weird, emma is shocked. they are supposed to be best friends! in response, emma decides that Cynthia’s new name should be bossy pants, and she tells everyone in the class. Now the entire third grade is trading nicknames. And while it starts out being funny, emma begins to see the downside of name-calling. but just when she decides it’s time for apologies, her teacher makes the most dreaded call of all—the one to everyone’s parents.
Kate and Nate Are Running Late!
Title | Kate and Nate Are Running Late! PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Egan |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 46 |
Release | 2012-10-16 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1250000807 |
After waking up late, Kate, Nate, and Maddie hurry to get ready while dealing with the many things that can derail a morning routine.
Mabel and Me - Best of Friends (Read Aloud)
Title | Mabel and Me - Best of Friends (Read Aloud) PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Sperring |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | 39 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0007468377 |
Meet Mabel and Me in this hilarious picture book, as they explore what puts the ‘best’ in ‘best friends’!
Emily Ever After
Title | Emily Ever After PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Dayton |
Publisher | Crown |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2005-06-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0767921534 |
A young woman heads to the city for her dream job as New York editor in this contemporary retelling of the story of Esther. When Emily Hinton, a quirky and quick-witted Southern California girl, lands a job at the world-famous publishing house Morrow & Sons, she decides that she is moving to New York to find love and Louis Vuitton, no matter what her friends and family think. Once in the city, however, Emily finds that in the highly secular world of a young Manhattanite, it’s anything but easy to balance her passion for New York’s glitz and glamour with her determination to live out her faith. Eventually, the crisis comes to a head when Emily takes a stand for her faith, risking in the process her beloved job. Readers of CBA fiction, as well as general audience readers of contemporary women’s fiction like Bridget Jones’s Diary, will enjoy watching Emily trade in her Nikes for Prada in this funny and fabulous, modern retelling of the story of Esther.
My Day with the Panye
Title | My Day with the Panye PDF eBook |
Author | Tami Charles |
Publisher | Candlewick |
Total Pages | 41 |
Release | 2021-03-16 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763697494 |
A young girl in Haiti is eager to learn how to carry a basket to market in an exuberant picture book with universal appeal. “To carry the panye, we move gracefully, even under the weight of the sun and the moon.” In the hills above Port-au-Prince, a young girl named Fallon wants more than anything to carry a large woven basket to the market, just like her Manman. As she watches her mother wrap her hair in a mouchwa, Fallon tries to twist her own braids into a scarf and balance the empty panye atop her head, but realizes it’s much harder than she thought. BOOM! Is she ready after all? Lyrical and inspiring, with vibrant illustrations highlighting the beauty of Haiti, My Day with the Panye is a story of family legacy, cultural tradition, and hope for the future. Readers who are curious about the art of carrying a panye will find more about this ancient and global practice in an author’s note at the end.