You Can Respect Differences: Assume or Find Out? (Making Good Choices)

Shirley J.               Juvenile Learning Tool                     Getting to know people who are different abled 

You Can Respect Differences:  Assume or Find Out? (Making Good Choices) by Connie Colwell Miller

24 pages

This is a choose your own ending book.  Aisha is a new girl at school who is in a wheelchair.  this makes Ben uncomfortable.  He wants to speak to her but isn't sure what to say.   He wants to ask her if she would like to play basketball - she is on the court after all talking to some other kids, but, he is unsure how to approach her.      Will Ben assume she has the other kids to talk to and go his way or will he get to know Aisha himself?  The reader gets to choose how Ben will deal with the situation and what happens after he makes his choice.   A good teaching tool on learning that it is fun to get to know other people and just because someone is different or differently abled than we are, it makes it that much more interesting to expand our horizons and get to know them.    A good story.  It is geared to the 5-9 year old set but I would recommend it  to anyone because everyone could learn from this encounter.  Parents, Siblings, Grandparents, babysitters, teachers, librarians, can all enjoy how this one turns out - after all - it is all about the choices we make.