Sophie's squash go to school / Miller, Pat Zietlow

Sophie, a girl whose best friends are squash, attends school for the first time. She takes Bonnie and Baxter, two baby squash she grew in the garden, with her but no one appreciates her friends! One boy, Steven, wants to be friends, but Sophie isn't interested. However, soon Sophie realizes her squash friends won't last forever, and she learns what real friends are.

On her very first day of school, Sophie is reluctant to make friends with the other children, preferring to play with two squash she grew in her garden--but when a particularly persistent boy named Steven gives her a packet of seeds as an apology for accidentally ripping her picture, she realizes that it just takes time to grow a friend.