The Chronicles of Coop-de-Ville: Friends or Benefits

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Inspired by the motion picture, Short Circuit, Tri Star Pictures, 1986, the CPWD Identity Awareness Series is an expanding series of insightful tales focused on navigating the critical years of youth development throughout Jr. High and early high school. Each book in The Chronicles of Coop-de-Ville engages the reader in pieces of a young person's identity development and sparks lively post-reading discussions about lessons in diversity, morality and life.Book two, Friends or Benefits presents a heart-warming lesson about awareness of youth with disabilities. Ken and Greg, Jr's. friendship is tested after Ken enjoys the reputation he has always wanted at his school at the expense of Theodore, III (Trey), a speech impaired boy looking for real friends. With the help of older friends like Daebreon and Greg, Trey is saved from Ken and the spoils of popularity as a tale of friendship and understanding comes full circle! Youth are sure to find out how wanting to being popular too badly can cause some really uncool things to happen. Never forget how things used to be! Friends or Benefits tells us why in a delightful tale of the making of real friends despite disabilities!CPWD youth development books are a collection of stories identified by individual series targeting major social and behavioral development issues that can hopelessly separate youth from a rightful place in the hearts of adults and mentors. Each series is dedicated to matters of Identity Awareness, Diversity Education, Peer Pressure, Relationships, Self-Esteem and Behavior and faith development. Youth from all over have benefited from the insight found in these CPWD stories which spark diversity and spiritual dialogues of all types. Here's one of many testimonies about the CPWD Identity Awareness Series..."You address youth identity, but you also get to the very essence of what multiculturalism ought to be. Moreover, you do it in a most engaging and thought-provoking way. My deepest congratulations!" - Carlos Cortés, Senior Consultant, Dora the Explorer, Nickelodeon