Kate McGovern Books

The story follows Maple Mehta-Cohen, a girl struggling with reading despite her vivid imagination and storytelling talent. After being required to repeat fifth grade, she fabricates a story to maintain her social standing among friends. As she confronts her reading challenges and the complexities of friendships, Maple learns to embrace her unique strengths. This heartfelt narrative resonates with readers who face similar obstacles in school and personal relationships, making it a relatable and inspiring tale for young audiences.

Exploring the integration of Lean principles into public sector operations, this book highlights the transformative potential of these methods for enhancing government efficiency and effectiveness. It delves into how Lean process improvement techniques, successful in the private sector, can be adapted to create purposeful public policy, ultimately aiming to streamline operations and improve outcomes for citizens.

This book examines the power of linking Lean government operations and purposeful public policy. When Lean process improvement principles and techniques entered the public sector after decades of proven effectiveness in private industry, it brought the same transformative potential.

Maple Mehta-Cohen has a secret: she can't read very well. Words on the page just don't make sense. Despite all her clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now she has to repeat a whole year of school. But on her first day back, Maple tells a lie about why she's there - a lie that soon spirals out of control. Will Maple find the courage to tell the truth before someone gets hurt? And can she find a way to love herself and her brain, just the way she is? Readers who have faced their own trials with school and friendships will enjoy this heartwarming story and its bright, creative heroine