• Age: 7 to 11
• Grade: 2 to 6

Kids are under a lot of pressure to fit in. Sometimes bowing to this pressure forces them to betray their own ideas of what is right and wrong. Momentarily dazzled by the glamor of a new girl at school, Alexandra tattles her best friend Jenny's biggest, most important secret in order to win a place within the cool crowd. When she sees how she's hurt Jenny's feelings, she wonders how she'll regain the relationship she values far more than being invited to sit with the popular girls. Our Friendship Rules is both a lyrical story of forgiveness and a guidebook on relationships. Author Peggy Moss employs her training as a mediator and communication expert to provide a simple, sweet but instructive tale of how to get along. The evocative collage-paintings of Alissa Imre Geis further illustrate the many layers of personality. Her Alexandra will amaze you with her artistic eye, and her Jenny will make you smile with her practical sensibility as you see these best friends reconnect with the help of their friendship rules.

PEGGY MOSS (Toronto, Ontario) is a writer, educator, former hate-violence prosecutor, mother of two daughters who write their own rules, and author of the Tilbury House bestsellers Say Something and One of Us.

Penny Weber is a mother, wife, cat and dog lover, and artist who loves good books, hockey, and action movies. Her books include On My Way to School, Amazingly Wonderful Things, One of Us, Unplugged, Always Mom-Forever Dad, and Ava's Adventure.

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DEE DEE TARDIF was in grade nine when she helped her aunt come up with the idea for this book and write it. She is mostly a grownup now.

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Alissa Imre Geis started drawing when she was two. Her imagination fueled by all the books that she read, she drew her way through school filling up the margins of her notebooks with sketches. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she has illustrated several books for children including Winnie at Her Best and Neil's Castle, which was her first venture into writing. She is currently living in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts with her husband and son.

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