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Dot is a little shy and has trouble making friends at school. When her class is talking about pets, she seizes the opportunity to tell everyone she has a pet tortoise - erm, wait, make that a tortosaurus! He's super cool, and definitely not just her tortoise Monty dressed as a dinosaur. But as the celebrity pressure grows, Dot learns that she and Monty can make friends just being themselves.

This is a super cute story about starting school or moving to a new place and having to make new friends. It's also very relatable how Dot is sensitive to offhand comments by her classmates, and that pushes her to think it's not enough to have a tortoise and that she has to think of something extraordinary for people to like her. But in the end, all's well that ends well, and Dot apologizes to Monty and makes friends because of something very real, aka a love for tortoises.