Today is a two-fer. Read The Recess Queen and the companion Worst Best Friend for a double-dose of frienship!
One of
the biggest challenges O’Neill faced in her professional teaching career was a
boss who bullied her and undermined her efforts. O’Neill wondered if there was a
way to get a bully to stop being a bully. She started writing The Recess
Queen (Scholastic Press) in 1992, but couldn’t come up with an answer to
her question, so she filed the story in a drawer for several years. When one of
her nieces reached playground age in 1999, O’Neill observed that she was a
people magnet because she asked kids to play with her and offered unconditional
friendship. O’Neill realized this was the answer to her problem in The
Recess Queen--model her character, Katie Sue, after her niece, and have
Katie Sue offer to be friends with the bully. [Excerpted from my Alexis O'Neill profile.] 
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