One of Us

*Winner, Best Book Award, Language Arts Picture Books, Society of School Librarians*

*The Camellia Award*

You are one of us, Carmen tells Roberta on her first day at a new school, and Roberta gladly sits with Carmen s group until she learns that they don t play on the monkey bars.

Roberta loves the monkey bars, but the kids who play there don t carry flowered lunchboxes like she does. She moves from group to group, but it seems that she doesn t fit in anywhere! Then Roberta discovers some kids just like her everyone's different and they like it that way!