Viorst, Judith

Lulu needs help from a boy named Fleischman if she is to earn money walking her neighbors' dogs, and she finds out that if she wants her business venture to succeed, she has to be nice.

On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.

A little brother thinks of the ways he will someday get revenge on his older brother.

A child, on the verge of being left behind by parents who are going out for the evening, comes up with a variety of pleas and excuses.

Lulu is sent to Camp Sisterhood to learn how to be a big sister, but she makes it her mission to be the worst sister-in-training in camp history.

A collection of illustrated poems for children.

A collection of poems that examines a wide variety of feelings and experiences from a child's point of view.

Forty-one poems reveal a variety of secret thoughts, worries, and wishes.

Explores how people grow and change through natural and inevitable losses in life, such as the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of loved ones through separation and death; and explains how these losses provide us with deeper perspective, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life.

What will a young girl do to get her ears pierced? Will she walk the dog for a year? YES! Will she clean her room every day for a year? YES! Will she be nice to her brother for a year? YES! Well, maybe...