Age Group: 3 - 6 Years, 6 - 9 Years

Description:

When a new girl named Maya joins the class, Chloe and her friends decide they want nothing to do with her. Maya's clothes are old and worn, so the girls turn away each time she tries to join their games, whispering and laughing instead of making room. Maya keeps reaching out, then quietly gives up — and one day she simply stops coming to school. Soon after, Chloe's teacher gathers the children for a gentle lesson: how every act of kindness, however small, ripples outward to change the world. Only then does Chloe truly feel the weight of the friendship she refused, and the chance she can no longer take back. Told in Jacqueline Woodson's spare, lyrical verse and luminous watercolour art, this is a quietly powerful, deeply honest story about exclusion, regret, and the lasting reach of kindness.