When the boys won't let the girls play on their soccer team, the girls solve their problem by creating their own team and not allowing the boys access until both sides come to realize that they are being silly and that everyone should have the opportunity to play together.
PreS. The latest Robin Hill School story in the Ready-to-Read series brings preschoolers a drama from today's headlines. First-grader Emma is angry when the boys won't let her join the soccer game at recess. "Girls do not play soccer," they tell her. But her dad helps her figure out a plan. First, she organizes a girls' game to show that girls can play; then she convinces the boys to accept boy-girl teams. New readers will love the sports action and the angry face-offs ("Emma was furious"), and Gordon's line-and-watercolor cartoon-style illustrations show that even when everyone played together, "sometimes they had fights."
