Forced to work with the class bully on a project to design a new breakfast cereal, Richard also tries to stop him from picking on second-graders by using tarantula power.
Describes some of the plants and other animals that a black-faced lion tamarin encounters in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil as he searches for a mate to start a family of his own.
Teaches children about clocks, calendars, time lines, and time charts through a color-illustrated description of the life of Jiggs, a baby chimp in a zoo.
Jenny is discouraged when her second grade pen pal turns out to be a new student from Saudi Arabia who does not speak English very well, but as she works with her they slowly become friends.
A stray kitten turns out to be the perfect way to help Rana make friends in her new school and to feel more comfortable with her grandparents, who are visiting from India while her parents are away.
When his teacher is replaced by a substitute nicknamed Beezer the Buzzard, and each student has to do a report on an African animal, Kevin, who struggles with attention difficulties, is not sure he will survive the year.
