This story focuses on Hippo, who learns the importance of honesty and taking responsibility for mistakes. When something goes wrong, Hippo struggles to admit the truth but eventually learns that being honest leads to better outcomes. The book teaches moral values such as honesty, courage, and accountability in a gentle and relatable way
Discusses the educator as a role model, the classroom as a moral community, and confronting the issues of drugs, alcohol, and sex.
A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything …