personal names

When a baby mouse is born, her mother seeks just the right name in the gifts and advice of her neighbors.

Herb and Sophie send away for an elephant, but when he arrives, they struggle to find a name that he will like and that suits him.

When Rene learns that in the United States his name is also a girl's name, he does some research and relates the name's meaning and letters to his homeland of El Salvador and the things that make him special.

"Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to go back to school. In response, the girl's mother teachers her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city. Empowered by the this newfound understanding, the young girl is ready to return the next day to share her knowledge with her class"--Jacket flap.

Unless Ghoulia can discover the name of a young ghost, who arrived at Crumbling Manor just before the "Dead but Not Departed" New Year's Eve Party, he will vanish forever.

Relates the tale of Rumpelstiltskin's childhood and youth, explaining why his name is so important, how he is able to spin straw into gold, and why a first-born child is his reward for helping the miller's daughter-turned-queen.

In her diary, Daphne Davis doodles, draws, and documents a series of disasters on her first two days of fourth grade, most of which result from her new teacher accidentally calling her Daffy.

Third grader Bridgett Butt sets out to get everything in her life back to normal somehow when her favorite teacher moves away, her best friend gets a new best friend, and her dog gets sick.

Chrysanthemum loves her name until she starts going to school and the other children begin to make fun of it.

As a refugee from Sudan to the United States, Sangoel is frustrated that no one can pronounce his name correctly until he finds a clever way to solve the problem.