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Guides by Deb – Keeping your books in the hearts of young readers and in the hands of those who care for them.
The guide linked below was created by Debbie Gonzales, MFA. Deb is a career educator, curriculum consultant, former school administrator and adjunct professor, and once served as a SCBWI RA for the Austin Chapter. She's the author of six “transitional” readers for a New Zealand publisher and the forthcoming non-fiction picture book Girls with Guts: The Road to Breaking Barriers and Bashing Records (Charlesbridge, 2019). Deb earned her MFA in writing for children and young adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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Author: Peter Friend & A.J. Ponder
ISBN: 9781877535215
Publisher: Gilt Edge Publishing
Synopsis: Roger is a big, beefy bully. Most of all, he likes to bully his shrimp of a cousin. The two boys seem worlds apart. Even in the water they are different: one has the muscles to swim strongly on the surface and the other can swim underwater further than anyone else. Then there is an accident on the bridge that neither of them can deal with on their own...
