Written by Newbery Medalist, National Book Award winner, and Laura Ingalls Wilder Award recipient, and author of Bridge to Terabithia. Vinnie Matthews needs a real lifesaver--on that will bring her father back to life and let her family go home. Living with Grandma means having to be responsible for her little brother, Mason, who refuses to speak, and ignoring the kids who ask why he's so crazy. Then Vinnie meets Lupe, the mysterious "flip-flop girl" who only wears orange flip-flops on her feet. Lupe is strong, confisent, and even more of an outsact than Vinnie. She's just teh type of friends Vinnie needs, if only Vinnie can ignore the rumora about Lupe's past.

Mackenzie, a young free-spirited girl, sets out on an adventure to a special pirate gathering where she encounters unruly pirates set in their old pirate ways. Through bravery and can-do-it-ness Mackenzie, as Black Mack the flip flop loving pirate, takes on a leadership role to teach the pirates that embracing differences and including others is the new code of pirate kindness.In her colorfully creative debut Dana (Macc) Fikes spotlights the concepts of anti-bullying and diversity. She reimagines these tough topics in a simple way to motivate young readers to stand up for what they believe and build relationships to effect change in their communities and the world. Read it twice, read it thrice and ask yourself what are the special treasures that make your heart sing? It's a swashbuckling tale for all readers and pirates too!

The millionaire lifestyle isn't about your bank balance. In the revised and expanded second edition of Millionaire in Flip Flops, The Lifestyle Edition, Sue gives you concrete action steps to follow to create your own life the way you dream of living it. With Sue's guidance, it's well within reach.

Uprooted following the death of their father, nine-year-old Vinnie and her five-year-old brother, Mason, cope in different ways--one in silence--but both with the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.

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