A friendly smile and a simple "hello" set the stage for a lifetime of friendships. Kids learn how to make friends with a catchy song and colorful illustrations that support the upbeat lyrics. Making New Friends! is aligned with Early Learning Science Standards. This eBook comes with online music access.

When TJ moves to a new neighborhood, he doesn't think he will be able to make new friends. But then a box named Browny comes to life and helps TJ out.

Follow Ava on a journey to make new friends at a brand-new school. She meets classmates of different backgrounds and cultures, and she learns they have things in common. Will Ava make new friends?

The World… Seeped in magin power, the will of the world had been defeated by the fracturing of its lands and the feuding of its clans. When the people began to rekindle their faith in a unifying destiny, the world awoke from its fitful slumber. It's whisper creeped into the ocean of magic and touched its king. The King… Katrise Doolin had only been eleven when she first heard the call of the world. Marked with a symbol of power that had long been forgotten, she reclaimed the Emerald Throne and led her clan to claim the continent of Llandsbar. It was only the beginning of her reign and her problems were quickly compounding. The Destiny… Ten years later, to unify and free the clans, Katrise must displace the power of the Last Dukes. But lurking, ever-vigilant, in the background is a more sinister threat. The Mage Clans of Dark and Fire will summon magin power not seen in a thousand years. Old enemies will form uneasy alliances and Katrise will be forced to question the loyalty of everyone around her. Katrise has heard the call of the world and she must serve. But first, she must survive.

Mary’s new in town and worried about starting classes at a new school. So her mom called the Helper Hounds – and why Sparkplug, the wildly handsome, wickedly smart, world famous Helper Hound is on the scene.

Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, NPR and THE ROOT "[A] cutting take on race and class...part dark comedy, part surreal morality tale. Disturbing and delicious." —People "You’ll gulp Senna’s novel in a single sitting—but then mull over it for days.” –Entertainment Weekly From the bestselling author of Caucasia and Colored Television, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manners in contemporary America. As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation, on the Jonestown massacre. They've even landed a starring role in a documentary about "new people" like them, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her—yet she can't stop daydreaming about another man, a poet she barely knows. As fantasy escalates to fixation, it dredges up secrets from the past and threatens to unravel not only Maria's perfect new life but her very persona. Heartbreaking and darkly comic, New People is a bold and unfettered page-turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another, and ourselves.

“Anne Lamott is the two-way mirror of our hopes, insecurities, and cheating hearts, an astute observer of human nature.” —Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club The celebrated author of Bird by Bird offers a stunningly evocative novel about a divorcée who returns to her small Northern California town, where she encounters vivid memories of her eccentric family and coming-of-age in the 1960s With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage of dislocating changes that shook the Sixties. Leading us through the wake of these changes is Nanny Goodman, a girl living in Marin County, California. A half–adult child among often childish adults, Nanny grows up with two spectacularly odd parents: a writer father and a mother who is a constant source of material. As she moves into her adolescence, so, it seems, does America. While grappling with her own coming–of–age, Nanny witnesses an entire culture’s descent into drugs, the mass exodus of fathers from her town, and rapid real estate and technological development that foreshadow a drastically different future. In All New People, Anne Lamott works a special magic, transforming failure into forgiveness and illuminating the power of love to redeem us.

Destined to die because of the disappearance of his sister prior to her scheduled sacrifice, Jayden is surprised to find that he, too, has traveled through time so that his life could be saved. When the people who have befriended Javion do likewise for him, he realizes that his life has been saved for a purpose. He soon finds that the daughter of his mentor, Spotted Pony, has become very important to him, but marriage to the girl—who is too young—seems an impossible dream, rather than the all encompassing love of his life. Shining Star is immediately attracted to the handsome stranger her father has befriended. Will he be willing to wait for her? Or, will a winter of separation show him other maidens more suited to him?

Our friends enrich every part of our lives. Now you can make them matter the most. Despite modern technology and the ample ways we have to keep in touch, we risk neglecting our relationships with the people who have the most profound effect on our well-being: our friends. Weaving together personal stories, interviews with experts, and social research, Friendship First empowers you to nurture relationships with friends both new and old. Journalist Gyan Yankovich reveals how friendships play a vital role in our happiness with insights on how to: Deepen workplace friendships outside the office Invite friends into activities typically reserved for families Use social media to strengthen connections Maintain friendships through major life transitions. An ode to group chats and chosen family, Friendship First invites you to care for and count on those who matter most.