Monday, October 21, 2013

Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts illustrated by Noah Z. Jones*

Jeremy wants a specific pair of shoes but his grandmother cannot afford them.  When they find a pair of them in a thrift shop, Jeremy does not care if they are too small.  He buys them anyway with his own money.  When Jeremy notices that a classmate's shoes are falling apart and his feet are smaller than his (the only one who does not own a pair of "those shoes" besides Jeremy), Jeremy must make a very difficult decision.
I love this book about kindness and how being unselfish and kind is very hard sometimes.
*Highly recommend.
Strategies: predicting, inferring, character traits,  Daily 5-"finding books that fit -shoe analogy".

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