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    The Fix-It Friends: Sticks and Stones
    The Fix-It Friends: Sticks and Stones
    The Fix-It Friends: Sticks and Stones
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    The Fix-It Friends: Sticks and Stones

    By Nicole C. Kear and Tracy Dockray

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    Because words can hurt you too.

    Noah’s the quiet type, which makes him a great friend for Veronica. She chats. He listens. She gabs. He nods. Perfect!

    So when Veronica spots Noah getting teased, she decides that if he won’t speak up for himself, she will! What she doesn't expect is that the teasing will turn on her -- and her sense of style. Veronica's so embarrassed that she agrees to a mega Makeover from Cora, the Queen of Cute. When this only makes the name-calling worse, Veronica and Noah know just who to call for back-up: the one-and-only problem-solving team, the Fix It Friends!

    The second adventure in The Fix-It Friends chapter book series anchors humor with lots of heart, as the group learns to deal with teasing and bullying.

    Includes a toolbox of expert advice on how to handle teasing!

    Don’t miss the other Fix-It Friends adventures:
    The Fix-It Friends: Have No Fear!
    The Fix-It Friends: The Show Must Go On
    The Fix-It Friends: Wish You Were Here
    The Fix-It Friends: Eyes on the Prize
    The Fix-It Friends: Three’s a Crowd

    An Imprint Book

    Praise for The Fix-It Friends: Have No Fear!:

    "Fears are scary! But don’t worry: the Fix-It Friends are here with step-by-step help —and humor too.”—Fran Manushkin, author of the Katie Woo series

    “Full of heart and more than a little spunk”
    —Kathleen Lane, author of The Best Worst Thing

    An empowering resource for kids — and they're just plain fun to read.”
    —Lauren Knickerbocker, Ph.D., Co-Director, Early Childhood Service, NYU Child Study Center

    “Hooray for these young friends who work together; this diverse crew will have readers looking forward to more.” —Kirkus Reviews

    "The humor is spot-on, and the stories pull kids in, teaching without preaching, encouraging children to be active problem-solvers in their own lives." —Dr. Dawn Huebner, Ph. D., child psychologist and creator of the What-to-Do Guides for Kids series

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781250085870
    The Fix-It Friends: Sticks and Stones
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    Nicole C. Kear

    Nicole C. Kear grew up in New York City, where she still lives, with her husband, three firecracker kids and a ridiculously fluffy hamster. She's written lots of essays and a memoir, Now I See You, for grownups; and The Fix-It Friends series and Foreverland for kids. She also co-wrote The Startup Squad series with Brian Weisfeld. She has a bunch of fancy, boring diplomas, and one red clown nose from circus school. Seriously.

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      The Fix-It Friends - Nicole C. Kear

      Chapter 1

      I’m Veronica Conti and I’m seven. I don’t mean to brag, but I’m great at fixing things.

      Well, I’m not great at fixing stuff, like necklaces or computers or precious glass vases that accidentally got knocked off the shelf and shattered into a billion pieces. I’m better at breaking that kind of stuff than fixing it.

      But I can fix problems. In fact, I am the president of a problem-solving group. Just read the sign hanging on my bedroom wall.

      When my big brother, Jude, saw my sign, he rolled his eyes and said, First of all, we’re not ‘professional.’ That means people pay us, and they don’t.

      So I crossed out professional and wrote world-famous instead.

      Was he satisfied? Of course not.

      ‘World-famous’ isn’t true, either, he said. And you can’t say that no problem is too big. What if someone’s appendix bursts? That problem would be too big.

      JUDE! I hollered. You are driving me bonkers! I crossed out a bunch of things and wrote new things.

      And you’re not the president, he said. We don’t have a president.

      Jude is very bossy. He’s in fourth grade, and I’m in second, so he is only two years older than me, but he acts like he’s already a grown-up.

      Here, I said, taping the sign back up. This is what it said:

      Fine, Jude said.

      He didn’t care that I called him Bossy Pants, because his real middle name is much, much worse than that. It’s so embarrassing, he made me swear never to tell a living soul. Or a dead soul, either.

      There are four Fix-It Friends. We each made our own personal posters, which I hung up next to the group poster. Jude said he didn’t want so many posters cluttering up his bedroom wall, but I said it was my wall, actually. We share a bedroom, and we share the walls, too. Two for me, two for him.

      My walls are completely full of posters and pictures and fascinating stuff like that. Jude’s walls are completely blank because he is completely boring.

      These are the posters each of us made. First, Jude’s, in his oh-so-perfect penmanship:

      His best friend, Ezra, made a cool sign on his computer:

      He didn’t write that he was good at speed talking, but he is. In fact, it’s the only way he talks. When he grows up, if he is not a rich and famous computer inventor, he could get a job being the person who talks really fast at the end of commercials and says stuff like No substitutions, exchanges, or refunds. Must be eighteen or older to order.

      Cora, who is my best friend, wrote her sign in script. We didn’t learn it at school yet, but she taught it to herself:

      I know it seems like she wrote the same word twice, but she didn’t. Mediation is when you help people stop fighting. It’s like being a peacemaker. Once a week, Cora is a mediator at the recess playground, and so is Jude. I tried to be one, but the mean recess teacher, Miss Tibbs, didn’t pick me. She said I had too much personality for the job—which doesn’t even make sense! That’s like saying you can have too much whipped cream.

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