shoes

Ella Mae and her cousin Charlotte, both African American, start their own shoe store when they learn that they cannot try on shoes at the shoe store.

Beth the pig's friends help her find a perfect new pair of boots after her favorites become too small.

Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.

Lily Lujan is known as Little Chanclas because she wears her chanclas, or flip flops, wherever she goes, especially to parties, so when the chanclas come apart while she is dancing at a family barbecue and Chewcho the bulldog eats one, Lily is inconsolable until Granny Lola arrives with a solution.

Delighted with her shiny new red shoes, a little girl dances through town to show them off to everyone she knows.

William has a pair of magic cowboy boots that take him wherever he wants to go, but when he outgrows them, he makes a surprising discovery.

Mrs. Grindy tries on many different shoes at the shoe store but finally decides to keep her old ones.

Sofia has brand new white shoes for family friend Liliana's quinceanera, but when she gets grape juice on them her mother makes her wear them anyway, even though they no longer match her white dress.

"Originally published as the Case of the Sneaker Sneak by Scholastic in 2001"--Title page verso.