DIFFERENT Us!

Different us!

The Odd Squad

This book features four friends Maliyah, Jacob, Sarah, and Samson who struggle to finish their final fifth-grade year at St. Mary's Primary School without being the main focus of teasing and bullying. The mean kids at school refer to them as "the odd squad." Since first grade, this group of friends have had the task of trying to learn to be comfortable in their own skin because, in many ways, they were different from their schoolmates.

From Maliyah's struggle for ac...