Becky Williams is the perfect fifth grader. At the beginning of the new school year, Mrs. Flanagan, her teacher, asks her to be a "buddy" for the new "special" boy in class. YUCK- it's a boy, and double YUCK- he's special . She tries to get out of being Kevin's helper, but the teacher convinces her to give it a try. She really hates helping someone so different and special. Her friends don't like him either and think he is strange. Kevin is clueless and can't even talk so anyone can understand him. The fact that he is fat and has a baby face makes him even weirder. Becky, and her circle of...
Becky Williams is the perfect fifth grader. At the beginning of the new school year, Mrs. Flanagan, her teacher, asks her to be a "buddy" for the new ...