Welcome Back Maple Mehta-Cohen

<b>Maple is in fifth grade&#151;again. Now everyone will find out she struggles with reading&#151;or will they? An engaging read for anyone who has ever felt different.</b><br><br>Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can&#146;t read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder&#151;especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who&#146;s half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself&#151;but words on the page just don&#146;t seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple&#146;s clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading her teacher is on to her and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade. Maple is devastated&#151;what will her friends think? Will they forget about her? She uses her storytelling skills to convince her classmates that she's staying back as a special teacher&#146;s assistant (because of budget cuts you know). But as Maple navigates the loss of old friendships the possibility of new ones and facing her reading challenges head-on her deception becomes harder to keep up. Can Maple begin to recognize her own strengths and to love herself&#151;and her brain&#151;just the way she is? Readers who have faced their own trials with school and friendships will enjoy this heartwarming story and its bright creative heroine.