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Grades K-4

An English foxhound discovers positive uses of personal power.

“When you are the leader, everyone looks to you for direction, and you decide which way to go.” A bright compassionate puppy named Sally learns this lesson in a series of adventures taking her to England’s Windsor Castle and a meeting with the Queen.

Sally discovers that to be a leader “you have to be pretty clever,” and you also have to “study, practice and work hard to gain the respect and confidence of those who must follow you.” In the end, the other foxhounds do follow Sally, and everyone enjoys her fox hunt, even the fox!

You’ll find dozens of cross-curriculum activities in the My Way Sally teaching guide — writing new endings for Sally’s story, designing a book jacket, and using Sally’s lessons about leadership to identify and solve a problem confronting your class. My Way Sally will help you

•Demonstrate the positive uses of leadership
• Encourage innovation and appropriate questioning of “the rules”
• Promote creative problem-solving
• Introduce Great Britain and its town and country sights

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Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Picture Book of 1989