SuitabookFriendship and responsibility
Franklin’s unlikely best friend Sarah needs more help than he thinks he can manage, and he works to help her.
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Sue Stauffacher - Author
A humorous school-and-family story about Franklin navigating sixth grade, shifting relationships and concern for Sarah, while developing greater self-awareness and accepting help from kind, determined adults.
Franklin Delano Donuthead, star of Sue Stauffacher's Donuthead, is back and life continues to throw him lots of curveballs: he's now in sixth grade which means it's time for middle school, with all of its related terrors. He has to avoid whipping ponytails in the hallways, he's forced to use school bathrooms, with eighth-graders, his life science teacher makes him blush like a tomato, his beloved Glynnis Powell may be moving ahead of him socially, his mother has a boyfriend, and his unlikely best friend, Sarah Kervick, once again needs more help than he thinks he can manage on his own. But thanks to his tough but kindhearted mother, the tough but kindhearted Gloria Nelots, and a little growing self-awareness, Franklin manages what it takes to pull Sarah out of another rough situation. Sue Stauffacher has crafted another laugh-out-loud middle-grade novel about Franklin and Sarah that once again overflows with Franklin's distinctive voice, a touching plot, wholly original characters, and a little Mercurochrome for good measure. From the Hardcover edition.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA humorous school-and-family story about Franklin navigating sixth grade, shifting relationships and concern for Sarah, while developing greater self-awareness and accepting help from kind, determined adults.
Franklin’s unlikely best friend Sarah needs more help than he thinks he can manage, and he works to help her.
Franklin enters sixth grade and faces middle-school routines, social changes and uncertainty about Glynnis moving ahead of him socially.
Franklin’s mother has a boyfriend, while his mother and Gloria Nelots are described as tough but kindhearted adults who help him manage events.
Pay attention to how Franklin responds when Sarah needs more help than he believes he can manage, and whether the story presents support as shared responsibility rather than a task he must handle alone.
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