On Ellie and Carrie’s first day of second grade there’s a brand new kid in the class. But when the teacher asks her students to welcome their new classmate, they all mock him instead. The new student grows unhappier by the minute, as he is ostracized and taunted by his classmates. One day, however, Ellie begins to wonder what it must be like to be a new kid, feeling so “different and strange,” and she decides to take steps to get to know him, even at the risk of facing her friends’ ridicule. A wonderful story that every child should hear.

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