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Maude wants to be a member of the Bug-of-the-Month Club in her new neighborhood and decides that her entrance speech will be about fireflies. She reads, she researches, she prepares, and she delivers a speech that all the club members love--except for hard-to-please Louise. Louise won't even let Maude in the club! So Maude vows to really let Louise have it for being so rude--but when she does, it's not in the way anyone expects.

Sara's Russian grandmother has requested that there be no presents at her seventy-eighth birthday party so Sara must think of a gift from her heart.

"A five-year-old girl who is brave and strong faces night noises, too much light, and spooky shadows, all without calling her parents, before finally feeling sleepy"--Provided by publisher.

In 1961, shy and overprotected eleven-year-old Shirley Alice Burns must begin speaking up if she is to do what she wants, including talking about her beloved, deceased father.

"Zulay is a blind girl who longs to be able to run in the race on field and track day at her school"--Provided by publisher.

Children's author and illustrator William Steig, creator of "Doctor DeSoto", "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble", and other stories and cartoons, discusses his childhood and family life, his marriage to his bestfriend, Jeanne, and the sources of his inspiration.

A young girl finds a Canada goose with a badly injured foot and looks for her each day to see how she is doing.

Tina spends each Sunday with her father, a taxicab driver.

Rosemary Emma Angela Lynette Isabel Iris Malone grows tired of being an only child, but eventually finds a way to feel less alone.

Tina describes how she spends each Sunday driving around the city with her father, a taxicab driver.