Standing Up for Others
First Pick
Every lunchtime, the same ritual: captains pick teams, and Oliver is picked last. Always. Then Maya wins the coin toss and does something nobody's ever done.
Confident readers — stories about standing up for others, told at the right depth for 7–9 year olds. Every one ends with a short Talk About It prompt, never a stated moral.
Every lunchtime, the same ritual: captains pick teams, and Oliver is picked last. Always. Then Maya wins the coin toss and does something nobody's ever done.
It started as a joke about Sami's voice, and now the whole class calls him Squeaky. 'It's just a nickname,' everyone says. His sister sees it differently.