Peggy Moss (author) and Lea Lyon (illustrator)
Say Something
Tilbury, 2004
A pair of books by Peggy Moss tackles the perennial and thorny challenges of school socialization. Say Something gives quiet kids a reassuring nudge: practice and then speak out, and you can change the situation for the better. Say "hi" to the kid who sits alone on the bus or at lunch, and say "that's enough" or "grow up" to bullying behaviors.
In One of Us, Roberta James has just moved to a new school. On her first day she navigates among several cliques based on fashion, play, and food. In the face of the categorizing question, "What are you?" Roberta demonstrates laudable self-possession by answering, "I am a straight-up hair girl who climbs monkey bars and carries a flowered lunchbox with a pita roll-up in it." She finds a home among kids who refuse to be pigeon-holed and embrace difference.
Peggy Moss (author)
and Penny Weber (illustrator)
One of Us
Tilbury, 2010
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