I liked this book because although it used humor, it also had some real lessons about treating others as you would like to be treated. Classroom: This would be good to use as a discussion about kindness in older elementary classrooms that typically have those types of issues. It would be a good book choice, especially for girls where alot of drama occurs in social groups.

Eight-year-old Emma is just beginning to like her new school when her friend Cynthia starts telling other kids that Emma is, well, a little strange.