(3) 1-3 Miranda and Maude series. Illustrated by Jessika Von Innerebner. Princess Miranda is clean, organized, and into fancy shoes; chicken-raising, social-justice activist Maude is the complete opposite. Natural differences and misunderstandings make these third graders instant enemies, but after both girls show their empathy, a unique friendship develops. Wunsch tells this series-starting tale of unlikely friendship with plenty of humor and imagination, and the illustrations capture the girls' vastly different worlds with lively detail.

Reviewer: Mariko Turk