PLAIN TEXT EDITION (Full color pictures)(For special illustrated text edition where adjectives are colorful with fun fonts, look up ISBN 978-1514615157) "WATCH OUT, MOUSE!" When a friendly mouse named Max befriends a grouchy bear named Ben, the forest animals are delighted! But when a sly fox named Sylvester comes along, he stirs up trouble between Ben the bear and Max the mouse, and Ben does something he regrets! Can the fox be stopped? Can the friendship be saved? Read and find out! HELPING CHILDREN LEARN HOW THEIR BEHAVIOR AFFECTS OTHERS IN A FUN WAY Ben and Max: An Unlikely Friendship is a compelling story for 7-9 year olds that also teaches how our behavior affects others, including the "golden rule" of treating others as we wish to be treated, the issues of gossip and envy, and how to better handle anger. OTHER FEATURES The book contains colorful, highly detailed illustrations depicting a wide range of emotions. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS The last two pages of the book contain questions relating to the book's content as a guide to help you talk about these issues with your children. Sample Questions * What's a better way the bear could have acted when he was angry? * What did the fox say about the mouse to the bear that wasn't true? * What did the bear do after hearing these things? * What could the bear have done instead? * How did the fox want to be treated? * How did he treat others? *How did the fox finally get others to like him and treat him well? TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One: An Unlikely Pair Meet Chapter Two: Friendship Offered Chapter Three: A Joyous Time in the Forest Chapter Four: A Jealous Plot Unfolds Chapter Five: "Watch Out, Mouse!" Chapter Six: A Small Bird with a Big Heart Comes to the Rescue Chapter Seven: The Saddest Bear Gets Even Sadder Chapter Eight: A Little Bird is Very Brave Chapter Nine: Annabel Chapter Ten: The Plan Unfolds Chapter Eleven: In Which a Fox is Out-Foxed Chapter Twelve: A Celebration among Friends Epilogue Questions to Think About

See samples and more on our website - BenandMaxBooks dot com! "WATCH OUT, MOUSE!" When a friendly mouse named Max befriends a grouchy bear named Ben, the forest animals are delighted! But when a sly fox named Sylvester comes along, he stirs up trouble between Ben the bear and Max the mouse, and Ben does something he regrets! Can the fox be stopped? Can the friendship be saved? Read and find out! HELPING CHILDREN LEARN HOW THEIR BEHAVIOR AFFECTS OTHERS IN A FUN WAY Ben and Max: An Unlikely Friendship is a compelling story for 7-9 year olds that also teaches how our behavior affects others, including the "golden rule" of treating others as we wish to be treated, the issues of gossip and envy, and how to better handle anger. OTHER FEATURES The book contains colorful, highly detailed illustrations depicting a wide range of emotions PLUS, all ADJECTIVES are highlighted in large, fun fonts and bright colors as a reading aid. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS The last two pages of the book contain questions relating to the book's content as a guide to help you talk about these issues with your children. Sample Questions * What's a better way the bear could have acted when he was angry? * What did the fox say about the mouse to the bear that wasn't true? * What did the bear do after hearing these things? * What could the bear have done instead? * How did the fox want to be treated? * How did he treat others? *How did the fox finally get others to like him and treat him well? TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One: An Unlikely Pair Meet Chapter Two: Friendship Offered Chapter Three: A Joyous Time in the Forest Chapter Four: A Jealous Plot Unfolds Chapter Five: "Watch Out, Mouse!" Chapter Six: A Small Bird with a Big Heart Comes to the Rescue Chapter Seven: The Saddest Bear Gets Even Sadder Chapter Eight: A Little Bird is Very Brave Chapter Nine: Annabel Chapter Ten: The Plan Unfolds Chapter Eleven: In Which a Fox is Out-Foxed Chapter Twelve: A Celebration among Friends Epilogue Questions to Think About

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This poignant coming-of-age story is set against the verdant landscape and sultry atmosphere of the Florida Keys Ben Floyd has a lot on his mind. In only eighteen months he will be old enough to get a learner’s permit to drive, but that seems a lifetime away. Ben enjoys the close-knit group of friends in his small neighborhood, but lately he has been longing for a taste of adventure. Keeping an eye on his younger brother Cody is getting to be a big responsibility. And he is confused by complicated feelings he has for his lifelong friend, Cass. An unexpected turn of events finds the Floyd family in the Florida Keys over Christmas vacation and offers Ben a welcome opportunity to escape the neighborhood routine. Here he meets Mica, an independent, strong-willed girl who lives a nomadic life aboard a boat with her marine biologist father. Mica teaches Ben and Cody to fish, sail, and snorkel, and together they explore the interior canals and coastal waterways. But Ben soon realizes that adventure sometimes brings danger, and that at the center of Mica’s seemingly charmed life lies a mysterious loneliness. Young readers will relate to Ben’s conflicting feelings and growing restlessness as they experience this realistic, thoughtful, and sometimes humorous portrait of adolescence by award-winning author Adrian Fogelin.

Ben's story takes place in 1977 and is told in words. Rose's story in 1927 is told entirely in pictures. Ever since his mother died, Ben feels lost. At home with her father, Rose feels alone. When Ben finds a mysterious clue hidden in his mother's room, both children risk everything to find what's missing.

Receiving a diagnosis of autism is a major crisis for parents and families, who often feel as if their world has come to an end. In this insightful narrative, a courageous and inspiring mother explains why a diagnosis of autism doesn't have to shatter a family's dreams of happiness. Senator offers the hard-won, in-the-trenches wisdom of someone who's been there and is still there today—and she demonstrates how families can find courage, contentment, and connection in the shadow of autism. In Making Peace with Autism, Susan Senator describes her own journey raising a child with a severe autism spectrum disorder, along with two other typically developing boys. Without offering a miracle treatment or cure, Senator offers valuable strategies for coping successfully with the daily struggles of life with an autistic child. Along the way she models the combination of stamina and courage, openness, and humor that has helped her family to survive—and even to thrive. Topics include: the agony of diagnosis, grieving and acceptance, finding the right school program, helping siblings with their struggles and concerns, having fun together, and keeping the marriage strong.

The author of Dirt Music and The Riders captures the urgency of memory and the way an entire life can be shaped by one event from the past in this capsule of connected stories set on the coast of Western Australia. Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds—changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken. Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history and try to reconcile themselves to their place in the world. With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives are not what they had hoped.

On December 18, 1944, a twenty-one-year-old American soldier named Max Gendelman was captured by the Germans during one of the greatest battles ever fought in any American war-the Battle of the Bulge. He was one of only a handful of men in his company to survive, witnessing unimaginable horrors at the hands of the Germans. Taken prisoner, he and a small group of other soldiers were marched through German villages and taken to the location where he would spend the next several months of his life, each day wondering if it would be his last. Max Gendelman perhaps had more reason than most to worry. Although born and raised in Milwaukee, Gendelman was a Jew. A Tale of Two Soldiers is not simply a tale of surviving the atrocities of war. While imprisoned in the POW camp, a chance meeting with a lieutenant in the German Luftwaffe changed the course of Max's life. Karl Kirschner, conscripted against his will, spoke to Max one day through the prison camp fence, and the two young men discovered a shared passion for chess. During clandestine chess games, they also shared conversation, learning about each other and their families, and they ultimately came to a decision: they would help each other escape. Max Gendelman's poignant memoir, which he completed just one month before Ins death in June 2012, is a striking depiction of the worst of man's inhumanity to man, but even more, it is an inspiring, heartwarming, and uplifting tribute to an unlikely friendship that endured for more than six decades. Max Gendelman was an extraordinary man, and A Tale of Two Soldiers is an extraordinary book. Gendelman's words will stay with you long after you have turned the last page. Book jacket.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes Ben Philippe’s candid memoir-in-essays, chronicling a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also: foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, roommate, enemy) in predominantly white spaces. In an era in which “I have many black friends” is often a medal of Wokeness, Ben hilariously chronicles the experience of being on the receiving end of those fist bumps. He takes us through his immigrant childhood, from wanting nothing more than friends to sit with at lunch, to his awkward teenage years, to college in the age of Obama, and adulthood in the Trump administration—two sides of the same American coin. Ben takes his role as your new black friend seriously, providing original and borrowed wisdom on stereotypes, slurs, the whole “swimming thing,” how much Beyoncé is too much Beyoncé, Black Girl Magic, the rise of the Karens, affirmative action, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other conversations you might want to have with your new BBFF. Oscillating between the impulse to be "one of the good ones" and the occasional need to excuse himself to the restrooms, stuff his mouth with toilet paper, and scream, Ben navigates his own Blackness as an "Oreo" with too many opinions for his father’s liking, an encyclopedic knowledge of CW teen dramas, and a mouth he can't always control. From cheating his way out of swim tests to discovering stray family members in unlikely places, he finds the punchline in the serious while acknowledging the blunt truths of existing as a Black man in today’s world. Extremely timely, Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend is a conversational take on topics both light and heavy, universal and deeply personal, which reveals incisive truths about the need for connection in all of us.