All eleven-year-old Ian and his friends want to do is play baseball on the dusty old field behind the high school. But that's not so easy anymore. Jenny, who's always been a good sport, has started picking fights and missing games. And the rock-throwing high school bullies won't leave Ian and his friends alone. Ian's friends want him to fix things. But how? In the section of town where they …
Story about friendship'
For anyone who ever doubted it, Todd Parr is here to tell us all thatit's okay to be different. With his signature artistic style, featuring brightlycolored, childlike figures outlined in heavy black, Parr shows readers over andover that just about anything goes. From the sensitive ("It's okay to beadopted"--the accompanying illustration shows a kangaroo with a puppy in herpouch) to the downrig…