Siarra Jones Skating Into Trouble:
Paul Breau, John Beveridge
eBook
(TKI Productions, Inc., Nov. 12, 2019)
Ice skating, best friends, and a bully.Siarra Jones and her best friend Mia love ice skating. They are super excited to start their new lessons. If they pass the class, they’ll get to join an elite skating group.Unfortunately, sometimes life has a funny way of pulling the ice out from under you.Siarra Jones Skating Into Trouble is an exciting, fast-paced story about a smart, thoughtful, and adventurous young girl struggling to find a way to deal with a faster skater who picks on her.Will Siarra give up on her dream of joining an elite skating school or can she figure out a way to deal with the skating bully?Siarra Jones Skating Into Trouble is an anti-bullying story that promotes a positive growth mindset. It is ideal for middle grade children between the ages of 9-12.The Step-By-Step series are realistic, coming-of-age stories that feature smart, funny, and authentic characters dealing with challenging situations.Review:I really enjoyed Siarra as a character. It was good to see a strong girl, excited and having a good relationship with her parents. The bully incidents are realistic, and she learns more about being bullied first hand. It gives her empathy for others around her she notices are bullied. She goes through a beautiful change to start standing up for others, and uses this knowledge to stand up to her bully.I really enjoyed this book and hope it will make it into classrooms and libraries. It would make a great read aloud for a class to have discussions about bullying and what to do in different situations presented in the story. Plus, for any child that is being bullied, it will be an empowering read.Tiffany Turner, the Indie Children's Authors Connection Blog on Dec. 1, 2019