02088cam a2200433 i 4500 504731253 TxAuBib 20210625120000.0 210325t20212020||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781524717421 paperback $7.99 1524717428 paperback $7.99 (OCoLC)1243278879 TxAuBib rda Pearsall, Shelley,. Things seen from above / Shelley Pearsall ; illustrated by Xingye Jin. First Yearling edition. New York : Penguin Random House, 2021. ℗2020. 262 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "A Yearling book.". April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a "buddy bench monitor" for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from above, a story emerges... Joey's "bird's eye" drawings reveal what he observes and thinks about every day. Told in alternating viewpoints--April's in text and Joey's mostly in art--the story gives the "whole picture" of what happens as these two outsiders find their rightful places. 20210625. Middle schools Juvenile fiction. Middle school students Juvenile fiction. School children Juvenile fiction. Bullying Juvenile fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Art Juvenile fiction. Observation (Psychology) Juvenile fiction. Individuality Juvenile fiction. Children's stories. Jin, Xingye,.