First Day Blues

by Peggy King Anderson

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943990726
• ISBN13: 9780943990729
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Parenting Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 7 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 7

Customer Reviews

Helps the new kid try out alternatives

In this interactive book, the reader is allowed to try different ways of connecting with potential friends in a new school. It works well to stimulate discussion about ways of meeitng and making friends. Parenting Press publishes "The Decision is Yours" series of books. Each book deals with common dilemmas faced by elementary or middle school students. At the end of each page, the reader is asked to make an ethical choice. Based on the choice, the story takes a different branching path. Positive, negative and intermediate outcomes are available. The potential outcomes are not sugar-coated. Sometimes even the "right" choice may not have an entirely happy Carol Watkins, M.D.

A wonderful for tool for newly-relocated children!

This book not only helps children realize that they can make choices that affect their lives and attitudes, but also teaches them that they are not alone in facing the discomfort of being "the new kid." It shows them that their choices can affect how they meet and overcome the challanges of a new school situation. All parents who have children who are relocating should get this special gift for them