By Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Sister Bear gets swept up in a new popular clique and almost drops the friend who's stuck by her.
A flashy new cub named Queenie McBear shows up in Bear Country, and just like that there's an in-crowd at school — the group everybody wants to sit with. Sister Bear is dazzled. She starts fussing over her clothes, copying whatever Queenie's crew does, and being short with Lizzy Bruin, the friend she's had all along. Mama and Papa give her a gentle nudge. Then the cool crowd turns on one of its own, and Sister starts to see what she was about to trade away.
This is about the gentlest version of the whole subject a book can be. The pressure is real but small, and it gets named right out loud — clique, in-crowd, wanting in — so a six- or seven-year-old has words for a feeling that's just starting to show up at school. Nothing goes past a bruised friendship, and it's all patched up inside thirty-two pages. If your child is a little young for the sharper fitting-in books, this is a fine place to begin.