pick12 students join a special creative writing class— Liz wants Todd to be in it, but he with an undefeated basketball team & his dad‘s pressure, he‘s not sure he can. He decides to give it a chance & then really gets into it—even skipping practice! Mr. Wilkins tries to have the teacher fired & Todd feels like he has no choice but to flee. Liz talks him into staying & it works out! Also, the twins buy their first bras in a hilarious series of tries!
pickUsually the heaviest sleeper in the house, Jessica is the only one to stir when the house rumbles around her. In the morning, they learn this is the first #SweetValleyEarthquake since 1972! Liz wants to write about it for The Sixers, but Jess is the only one who seems to have experienced it. As usual, she starts exaggerating & soon has talked herself into predicting the next quake! Lila wants to humiliate her, so she throws a party, tees are made!
“Because failure isn't final. It's where new ideas are made.“
I would use this in my classroom to incorporate social-emotional topics into learning. I feel that in early elementary grades, students are learning social skills and begin to form friends and form personal opinions towards other things and people. This is a great book to emphasize that girls can do and build anything boys can.
pickA Girl Can Build Anything is a nonfiction story published in 2023. The story goes through all the different ways girls can make things. It has emphasis on girl power and empowering women to do things others may make them think they can't. Girls can do anything!
This would be a great book for like a preschool classroom and then maybe study different tools or do a little building project that they could gift to someone.
