Jeff Brown likes being an ordinary boy. Then he meets the new girl, Tilly Perkins. Tilly is different, but she's also brave and generous, tells amazing stories and has a great imagination. Jeff thinks Tilly is a lot of fun, but the rest of the grade-three class thinks her games and stories are not much more than outright lies. Then Jeff has a birthday party and the whole class is invited. Tilly promises Jeff two white mice as his present, but arrives at his party empty-handed. The other kids think she has broken her promise. As the party draws to an end, Jeff has to make up his mind. Even if Tilly is just pretending, which would he rather do? Play exciting games with Tilly's imaginary mice, or just go back to the ordinary games with his other classmates? A warm story that will have readers sympathizing with Jeff and his struggle with peer pressure.

Princesses Don't Wear Jeans

Bellingham, Brenda

Scholastic Paperbacks

Children's Books

Scholastic, Canada

Lilly Makes a Friend (Formac First Novels)

Lilly keeps getting into trouble at school whenever Davy, a boy from the kindergarten class, asks her for help. It's a new challenge for Lilly. He is blind and a lot smaller than her and her friends. His dream is to play soccer with the bigger boys and he wants to shoot a goal with Lilly as goalie.  Lilly tries to distract him by teaching him to yodel. He persists and they find a way to play with Davy's special ball, but even this doesn't satisfy. Everyone has an idea of what's best for Davy, even Lilly. But Davy has his own ideas about what he can and will do. Lilly Makes a Friend is a touching story that shows how integrating special needs children into the schools is a challenge worth pursuing.

Literature & Fiction

Formac

Lilly keeps getting into trouble at school whenever Davy, a boy from the kindergarten class, asks her for help. It's a new challenge for Lilly. He is blind and a lot smaller than her and her friends. His dream is to play soccer with the bigger boys and he wants to shoot a goal with Lilly as goalie. Lilly tries to distract him by teaching him to yodel. He persists and they find a way to play with Davy's special ball, but even this doesn't satisfy. Everyone has an idea of what's best for Davy, even Lilly. But Davy has his own ideas about what he can and will do.Lilly Makes a Friend is a touching story that shows how integrating special needs children into the schools is a challenge worth pursuing.

Lilly's class learns about a carnival in the Bahamas and plans their own version called the Hullabaloo. The much-teased Kendell brings Caribbean music from a mystery friend, who no one is sure really exists. The class works secretly on their costumes, as well as together, to make the event a success. During the parade, Lilly tries to recognize her classmates and is left wondering if Kendall's friend is real and snuck in, disguised.

Lilly and the Hullabaloo (Formac First Novels)

Animals

Lilly is excited about playing with the community league girls' soccer team. When the new girl, Sara, joins the team, there is controversy over her headscarf caused by their competing team's coach. The Wolves band together and insist that if Sara can't play with her hijab, they will not play at all. Brenda Bellingham offers a deft but convincing resolution which reinforces the willingness of Lilly, her team and their opponents to be open and welcoming to children of diverse backgrounds.

Captain Lilly and the New Girl (Formac First Novels)

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Storm Child

Storm Child (Time of our Lives)

In the warm springtime of 1831, Isobel Macpherson cools her feet in the flowing water of the North Saskatchewan River. Nearby, York boats move northward in procession, carrying furs to the trading posts on Hudson Bay. Soon, however, the skies began to darken for Isobel. The daughter of a Scottish father and a Peigan First Nation mother, her heart is pulled in two directions. She hates that her father has returned to Europe and so moves to live with her Peigan grandparents; there she longs for her European education and her old friends. Caught up in the ongoing struggles between the Peigan and their Cree adversaries, Isobel struggles to stay alive. At the same time she must learn to listen to her heart, and to take the best from both of her worlds. Set against a vivid portrait of the Canadian West in the 1830s, Storm Child recounts one young woman's fierce struggle to understand who she is.

Lorimer

Was she Isobel or was she the Storm Child? How could she decide? Who would give her the answer?Isobel is the daughter of a Scottish father and a Peigan Indian mother and her heart is pulled in two directions. Hating her father for returning to Scotalnd rather than coming home to Fort Edmonton, Isobel decides to go and live with her Peigan grnadparents in their Indian Camp. But later, she begins to realise that it is not so easy to turn her back on the European part of her life. What about her friend Henry? And what about getting an education?Isobel's search for a solution to her dilemma takes her across the west into a series of exciting and dangerous adventures. With the Crees out to avenge the death of a son and the fur traders ready to attack the Peigans, Isobel is in the centre of lots of action.Against the vast panorama of life in the West in the 1830s, Isobel begins to realise the truth about who she is. She is part of something new, she must listen to her heart...and learn to take the best from both worlds.

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Princesses Don't Wear Jeans

Princesses Don't Wear Jeans

Lilly Makes a Friend (Formac First Novels)

Lilly Makes a Friend (Formac First Novels)

Lilly and the Hullabaloo (Formac First Novels)

Captain Lilly and the New Girl (Formac First Novels)

Captain Lilly and the New Girl (Formac First Novels)

Storm Child (Time of our Lives)

Storm Child (Time of our Lives)

Princesses Don't Wear Jeans