Because she is shy and her parents worry that she has an overactive imagination, eleven-year-old Laura cannot ask straightforward questions about the two children she has heard playing in the yard next door.
how to fit in, make friends, and have fun-- even if you weren't born outgoing
Cl?ment, Claude
2005
Contains a guide to overcoming shyness, including information that shows young people how to make friends, speak their mind, and let other people get to know them without changing their whole personality.
One Australian summer, two very different sixteen-year-old girls--Charlie, a talented but shy musician, and Rose, a confident student longing to escape her tiny town--are drawn into an unexpected friendship, as told in their alternating voices.
Shy Henry eagerly waits to see his "buddy" on the garbage truck every time it comes--and finally manages to speak on a day when there is a small emergency.
Syd, who is much more comfortable with animals than people, asks her friends for a tarot reading, then fears the dire predictions are coming true as her parents fight, her aging cat suffers, and her friendships are tested.
Even after six months shy Faith Higgins still feels like the new girl on the Greenview cheerleading squad, and the upcoming school dance is making her feel even more awkward.