PYR 3 - The Giant Jelly Bean Jar Social Issues compassion

compassion

set during the Great Depression and beautifully captured in Robert Barrett's paintings

the death of his own innocence

covering both fiction and non-fiction genres

Even the boy she loves is not who she thought

PYR 3 - The Giant Jelly Bean Jar Social Issues compassionBen loves jelly beans, and every week he goes to Jo Jo's Jelly Bean Shop hoping to guess the riddle that will win him a whole jar full of them. He always knows the answer to the riddle, but he has never won the prize. It's hard to speak out loud in front of so many people, but with a little help from his sister, Ben finally learns to say what he's thinking.