Leah and Candace Leap Into Spring

Leah and Candace Leap Into Spring begins the first day of school at Nash Elementary after Christmas break. The girls are third graders. Frannie Lynn the school bully has struck again. Poor Candace! She is bearing the brunt of Frannie Lynns bullying this year. Leah and Candace are working hard to stay the top students in Mrs. Caseys class. Their teacher is challenging the class with multiplication and division problems. Plus her students will perform a play in front of the whole school their families and the community in March. How do Leah and Candace deal with their everyday stressors as well as unexpected challenges? Childrens book author Laura Everly grew up in a small farming and coal community in southeastern Ohio a place where Johnny Appleseed is said to have planted an orchard. Publishers website: http: //