The Chronicles of Coop-de-Ville: Tough Skin

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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 four: Tough Skin finds kids in Coop-de-Ville enjoying summer activities in the neighborhood when suddenly new neighbors invade their "marked" territory. Ken has specific and very personal problems with the new arrivals and tries to get the rest of the kids to see things his way. Fortunately for the neighbors, and Ken, some of the kids in de Ville remember what it's like to be different, let alone moving to a place where no one else looks like you. The road to acceptance of others as they are can be very bumpy, especially when you are driving in the wrong direction! Tough Skin brings to light the pain of stereotyping and the joy of accepting others like no other CPWD Identity Awareness Series story. Read to find out how many points for others can be scored on a basketball court!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