The Friendly Four

Drummond -- Who I am -- Bummer summer -- After the baby -- Neighbors -- Drum and Dorene -- Meeting Dorene -- Race -- Tall tale -- New boy -- Drum, Dorene and Louis -- Someone -- Party -- Tall tale, too -- Going to get Rae -- Drum, Dorene, Louis and Rae -- Rae -- Promise -- Playground -- Friendly four -- Rain -- Fuss -- Punished -- When summer ends -- Let's make a town -- Here comes the truck -- We did it! -- Town of goodsummer -- Parade -- Movies -- Bank -- School -- Office building -- Library -- Pet shop -- Concert hall -- Goodbyes -- Goodbye, Rae -- E-mail -- Goodbye to goodsummer.Drum: Didn't I call this summer a bummer? All: Not anymore, not anymore. Drum: I was alone, and life was lonely. All: But not anymore, Drum: 'cause we're the Friendly Four! Louis, Dorene, Rae: The Friendly Four? Drum: The Friendly Four. Meet Drum, Dorene, Louis, and Rae as they share one special summer of discovery and creative play together. Through individual poems and poems for multiple voices, these four young people explore the bonds of friendship, family, and community. With her free-verse poetry, award-winning writer Eloise Greenfield poignantly reminds us that sometimes our truest friends enter our lives when we least expect them. With inspired illustrations by renowned artist Jan Spivey Gilchrist.With the summer upon them, four kids from the city find friendship in one another as the lazy days go by--learning a lot about themselves, each other, and their community in the process that will forever alter their views of the world in which they live.