Vail, Rachel

"Katie Honors is a really brave kid. She can go to bed with just one small night light. She can hold her tears in when it's time to say goodbye to her mom at school. But sometimes Katie isn't ready to say goodbye and doesn't feel brave at all. When this happens, she Kaplooms! She refuses to let go of her mom, and everything is flurried as she begins to cry. Her emotions feel frightening. It's not the Katie Honors she wants to be. But her mother assures Katie that she can be both brave and sad, brave and crying, brave and scared"--Provided by publisher.

"Katie Honors is a really nice kid. But there's one little secret that sometimes makes her feel not-so-nice deep inside: her little brother, Chuck. Katie loves her brother and works hard to be the perfect big sister but it can be hard. Chuck can sometimes be just so icky and messy. Sometimes it makes Katie secretly wish she had a trampoline or a treehouse or a giraffe instead of a brother. When all these emotions bubble up to the surface, Katie can no longer grumblesquinch them down. She explodes, but she also learns an important lesson: that there's room for ALL of her feelings, even the scary ones"--Publisher.

"Elizabeth's doodles give her teacher an idea for student projects - and end up helping Elizabeth deal with feelings big and small"--OCLC.

"When other girls in her school have cat ears on their headbands, Elizabeth decides she must have one too"--OCLC.

"Eighth-grader Niki's best friend, Ava, dumps her just as life at home is becoming more complicated by her brother Danny's behavior and her mother's refusal to admit Danny is on the autism spectrum"--Provided by publisher..

When Katie Honors feels angry and out of control, her mother helps her to be herself again.

Elizabeth, the second-grade sister of Justin Case, is excited about her first homework assignment but it leads her to start a protest of alphabetical order.

Elizabeth, the younger sister of Justin Case, is frustrated about being one of the few Class 2B students to still have all of her baby teeth.

T, a young tyrannosaur, learns a handy trick that turns reading from a chore into a joy.