Making friends with Billy Wong
(Playaway/Launchpad)

Title from container.

"HD."

"LIGHT."

Previously released by Scholastic Inc., ℗2016.

Release date supplied by publisher.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Read by Kate Simses and Todd Haberkorn.

Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to look after Grandma Clark. Even if she didn't care that much about meeting new sixth graders at the Tyler Elementary Back-to-School Picnic in her Texas hometown, those strangers seem much preferable to the ones in Paris Junction. Talk about troubled Willis DeLoach or gossipy Melinda Bowman. Who needs friends like these! And then there's Billy Wong, the Chinese American boy who shows up to help in her grandmother's garden. Billy's family owns the Lucky Foods grocery store, where days are long and some folks aren't friendly. For Azalea, whose family and experiences seem different from most everybody she knows, friendship has never been easy. Maybe this time, it will be.