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  • The Upside-Down Day

    Beverly Lewis, Janet Huntington

    eBook (Bethany House Publishers, Jan. 1, 2001)
    It's school spirit day at Blossom Hill School, and everyone's enjoying the fun. Especially Abby Hunter's teacher, Miss Hershey. She does all sorts of wacky things, like wearing her clothes backward.And there's the new girl at school with a BIG secret. Leslie Groff--with bright red pigtails--dares Abby's class to guess her secret. In just one school day!Can the Cul-de-sac Kids do it? Or will spunky Leslie outsmart them all?
  • The Upside-Down Boys

    Lisa S. French, Srimalie Bassani

    eBook (Favorite World Press LLC, Jan. 8, 2019)
    It's top-secret Tuesday in the town of Thanks-Welcome and someone is launching gummy-eggy blech blobs from the Truly Kind Treehouse! Could it be a mad chicken or a gang of gum-chewing squirrels? When Frankie finds out it's the matching twin brothers McBlue, she bounces her way into the hearts of the Upside-Down Boys, breaks the chain of bad feelings and helps turn the two bullies into buddies.Kindness is contagious! Frankie and Peaches can’t wait to pass it on…Follow along with Frankie and Peaches in these engaging, heart-warming kindness capers that show children every act of kindness counts!The Upside-Down Boys is the second book in the Frankie and Peaches series. Beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Srimalie Bassani, these whimsically rhyming stories were created to help children explore and understand the concepts of empathy, compassion, and kindness and encourage them to believe they can have a positive impact on their world.Series DescriptionBrave, big-hearted Frankie and her floppy-eared pal Peaches have a very long can't-wait-to-do list: grow butterflies, make marshmallow shoes, grow a smile machine, make some furry-feathery friends, and end the Math Monday blues. But their most important mission of all is to spread kindness by breaking the chain of bad feelings, turning frowns into smiles and bullies into buddies. Join Frankie, Peaches, and the Thanks-Welcome Kindness Crew as they help others go from sad and blue to woo-hoo and find out why it’s important to care—why it's always cool to be kind!Each title in the series contains discussion questions for parents and teachers. Frankie and Peaches: Tales of Total Kindness is published by Favorite World Press.Be kind to the planet: when you read F&P, we plant a tree!Favorite World Press is an American Forests small business partner. For every print or e-book purchased from the Frankie and Peaches Tales of Total Kindness series, Favorite World Press will plant one tree helping to create more green space and a healthier planet for future generations.
  • The Upside-Downer Day

    Susie Taylor

    Hardcover (Zonderkidz, Feb. 3, 2004)
    Looking at the world from a different way is what Topsy-Turvy Tracy decided to do one day. It happened quite by accident, you see. She almost fell on her head, when her foot got caught in the bed sheet. Tracy decided she liked it that way, and so began the upside-downer day. It didn't take long for her to understand that God had the perfect plan. Kids will discover that God's ways are best, and just like Tracy, they'll be glad he made everything right side up!
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  • The Upside-Down Day

    Beverly Lewis, Janet Huntington

    Paperback (Bethany House Publishers, Jan. 1, 2001)
    It's school spirit day at Blossom Hill School, and everyone's enjoying the fun. Especially Abby Hunter's teacher, Miss Hershey. She does all sorts of wacky things, like wearing her clothes backward.And there's the new girl at school with a BIG secret. Leslie Groff--with bright red pigtails--dares Abby's class to guess her secret. In just one school day!Can the Cul-de-sac Kids do it? Or will spunky Leslie outsmart them all?
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  • The Upside-Down King

    Sudha Murty

    Paperback (Puffin, Sept. 25, 2018)
    The tales in this collection surround the two most popular avatars of Lord Vishnu-Rama and Krishna-and their lineage. Countless stories about the two abound, yet most are simply disappearing from the hearts and minds of the present generation. Bestselling author Sudha Murty takes you on an arresting tour, all the while telling you of the days when demons and gods walked alongside humans, animals could talk and gods granted the most glorious boons to common people.
  • The Upside of Down

    Dawn Malone

    eBook (Dawn Malone, Feb. 5, 2016)
    Hobbs Crane doesn’t like distractions. He lives for football, rules the basketball court, and does his best to avoid the neighbor girl with the Jupiter-sized crush on him. With a new kid out to steal his starting basketball position, Hobbs needs to feel in control again. Then Hobbs finds a boy living inside a giant blue spruce on an empty city lot who becomes the biggest distraction of all. How long has he been there? Where did he come from? And why does he seem to be following Hobbs? The boy named Up is in survival mode. Leaving his real name and a neglectful home life behind, Up is running away to Florida to find his older sister who left home years ago. But he’s hungry and desperate, and he finds the overgrown evergreen next to the old factory the perfect hideout until he makes a plan. Can Hobbs and Up help each other face their own uncertain futures while forging an unlikely friendship? Or are they too different?
  • The Upside-Down Boys:

    Lisa S. French, Srimalie Bassani

    Paperback (Favorite World Press LLC, Jan. 8, 2019)
    It's top-secret Tuesday in the town of Thanks-Welcome and someone is launching gummy-eggy blech blobs from the Truly Kind Treehouse! Could it be a mad chicken or a gang of gum-chewing squirrels? When Frankie finds out it's the matching twin brothers McBlue, she bounces her way into the hearts of the Upside-Down Boys, breaks the chain of bad feelings and helps turn the two bullies into buddies. Kindness is contagious! Frankie and Peaches can’t wait to pass it on…Follow along with Frankie and Peaches in these engaging, heart-warming kindness capers that show children every act of kindness counts! The Upside-Down Boys is the second book in the Frankie and Peaches series. Beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Srimalie Bassani, these whimsically rhyming stories were created to help children explore and understand the concepts of empathy, compassion, and kindness and encourage them to believe they can have a positive impact on their world.Series DescriptionBrave, big-hearted Frankie and her floppy-eared pal Peaches have a very long can't-wait-to-do list: grow butterflies, make marshmallow shoes, grow a smile machine, make some furry-feathery friends, and end the Math Monday blues. But their most important mission of all is to spread kindness by breaking the chain of bad feelings, turning frowns into smiles and bullies into buddies. Join Frankie, Peaches, and the Thanks-Welcome Kindness Crew as they help others go from sad and blue to woo-hoo and find out why it’s important to care–why it's always cool to be kind! Each title in the series contains discussion questions for parents and teachers. Frankie and Peaches: Tales of Total Kindness is published by Favorite World Press.Be kind to the planet: when you read F&P, we plant a tree!Favorite World Press is an American Forests small business partner. For every print or e-book purchased from the Frankie and Peaches Tales of Total Kindness series, Favorite World Press will plant one tree helping to create more green space and a healthier planet for future generations.
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  • The Upside Down Man

    Sarah Weldon

    language (Isla Britannica Publishing, March 12, 2018)
    Can you solve the upside down man's riddles?Bertram Bile wasn’t always like this. At primary school, he had friends, kind teachers, and great grades. But everything changed when he started his new school. His parents split up, his dad went missing, and his mum lost her job. Now he’s bullied by his classmate Angus and his evil geography teacher Miss Petrenko. His dad had been Miss Petrenko’s first love, but she never forgave him for dumping her for Bertram’s mum when they were kids themselves. Bertram feels sure that Miss Petrenko knows more about his dad’s disappearance than she’s letting on. After all, why would you take a job as a geography teacher if you didn’t know any geography AND you hated kids? The Upside Down ManWhilst visiting Bertram's aunty, a very old and wise witch, Bertram and Molly happen upon a man hanging upside down from a tree. Can the time travelling duo help the man find the answers to the riddles he needs to solve? The Upside Down Man is the fourth book in the Bertram Bile time travel adventure series, which follows the course of the River Thames from its source in Gloucestershire to the North Sea in Essex. But don't worry if you miss a book or two, you can jump in at any point in the series.
  • The Upside-Down Fish

    Kate Louise, Laura Matine

    Hardcover (Sky Pony, Feb. 10, 2015)
    Upside-Down Fish lives in a big tank at a pet store filled with lots of other fish. The other fish in the tank swim the right way up though, and they don’t understand why Upside-Down Fish is so different. This makes him very lonely. One day, a child comes into the store and chooses Upside-Down Fish as a pet. He is anxious that he won’t be accepted in his new tank, but much to his surprise, the new fish are friendly! They love that he is different and want to know what it’s like to have the sky below and the ground above. Upside-Down Fish realizes that it’s okay to be different—it’s what makes him so special.Kate Louise and Laura Matine’s The Upside-Down Fish is about being yourself and finding happiness with people who accept you for who you are. Inspired by the author’s own upside-down fish, this is a book for any child who feels a little different and needs that extra boost of confidence.Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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  • Upside Downers

    Mitsumasa Anno

    Hardcover (Philomel, April 5, 1988)
    Figures from two sets of playing cards, each of which seems upside down to the other, pursue their queer and quacky quarreling, until one of the kings points out that it is all a matter of point of view.
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  • The Upside Down Ship

    Don L. Wulffson

    Library Binding (Albert Whitman & Co, Sept. 1, 1986)
    Describes the adventures of teen-aged Bruce Gordon who, following an Arctic shipwreck in 1757, survived for six years in the ship's upside-down carcass with a polar bear as his sole companion.
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  • The Upside-Down Gardener

    Chrysa Smith, Laurel Garver, Pat Achilles

    Paperback (Independently published, Nov. 2, 2018)
    Determined city girl Dory Oslo, unwillingly agrees when her mom tells her she should plant a garden. How could something grow in their city plot with only a piece of sun shining above the buildings? Her determination to wake up those plants is strong and what follows is nothing short of a miracle. Only something highly unusual is happening, or is it? This story uses gardening as a tie-in to discussions about not giving up, trying something new, being a strong-minded girl and of course, the beauty of nature itself.