Willa Literary Award twice and the Will Rogers Medallion twice for best young adult literature
Ages 5-8 ( )

Sight Word Pie- In a pie dish filled with cotton balls (mimicking filling or crust) the students get to feel around for pieces of paper. Once they find a piece of paper they must pull it out, identify the word, write it down on a sheet of paper, and create a sentence using the word. The sight words are to represent the ingredients of a pie.

The boy thought he was going to have the perfect summer, until Jeremy Jacob moves next door! Jeremy became the boy's #1 enemy! The boy and his dad come up with a plan to make enemy pie-it was going to be the best thing ever! But, before the boy can give Jeremy the enemy pie, his dad says he must spend an entire day with Jeremy! They spend the day together, playing games and laughing. Maybe Jeremy wasn't so bad after all. The boy isn't so sure he wants to give Jeremy the enemy pie anymore. What do you think will happen when the boys eat the pie?

Jeremy has an enemy, he does not like him at all. One day, his dad says he can help him with his enemy and get rid of him, this can be done by making his enemy an enemy pie. Jeremy loves this idea but does not really like what Jeremy must do before giving his enemy the pie, which is spending an entire day with him. After spending the day with his enemy Jeremy learns that his enemy is not so bad after all and that maybe this enemy pie is a really bad idea.
Munson a Washington native captures the essence of an enemy and leaves the reader thinking that maybe an enemy is not really and enemy, but can become a friend. ( )

Fantastic for primary school classrooms! Starts great discussions and also has an engaging story that students want to read again with their friends. ( )