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The Friendship Challenge
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781963421026
Publisher: Covington Press
Published: Oct 14 2026
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.12 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Lily is the new kid, and her first day at school feels like being invisible. Jake and Emma are the ones who notice her sitting alone, and one small invitation changes everything.
The Friendship Challenge follows a classroom of kids learning that kindness isn't complicated; it just takes someone willing to go first. Alongside Lily, readers meet Sophia and Mateo, who have their own quiet struggles with feeling overlooked, and their teacher, Miss Davis, who turns one moment of kindness into a classroom-wide challenge built on three simple words: Notice. Invite. Be Kind.
Written for children ages 5 to 9, this heartfelt picture book gives young readers a real, practiced habit for including others, not just a lesson about being nice. It's the kind of story that sparks conversation at bedtime, in the classroom, or anywhere kids are learning what it means to make room for someone else.
Author Tom Cain is a grandfather of seven and a volunteer firefighter from Covington, Louisiana, who wrote this book to give kids and the adults who love them a simple, lasting way to build a kinder classroom, one invitation at a time.
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