Giff, Patricia Reilly

Rosie tries to make up with her former best friend and get into ballet class after the sign-up deadline.

Presents a brief biography of Mother Teresa, and contains information on her early years, and her work as a nun who is world renowned for helping the poor, sick, and uneducated in India and in other parts of the world.

Follows the humorous mishaps of a second grader who is learning to read.

Beast, assigned to write a letter to the author of a Halloween story Ms. Rooney read to the class, makes up a lie about how much he enjoyed the book rather than admit he was not listening, so he is horrified to learn that the author is coming to visit Polk Street School and is especially interested in meeting Beast.

Richard "Beast" Best wishes he could climb up the rope in the school gym like Matthew and Emily, but just the sight of it makes him dizzy. He hopes his friends will not find out his terrible secret. But the substitute teacher does find out.

Arno the killer kindergarten kid is back, and Dawn's grandmother is his baby-sitter. How will they have fun at the zoo with him along?.

When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.

In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.

Assisted by her cat Max and her friend Cash, Minnie tries to find Mary Moon, a valuable racing pigeon that has disappeared just before a big race.

Assisted by her cat Max, sixth grader Minnie starts up her new detective agency by investigating a kidnapping and a thief who will steal anything, even a hot stove.