literacy

Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house.

Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.

A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him.

Harry sits on the porch with Mr. George Baker, an African American who is one hundred years old but can still dance and play the drums, waiting for the school bus that will take them both to the class where they are learning to read.

Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.

Elderly Jeremiah decides that it's finally time to learn to read.

Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write.

Aunt Chip saves the town of Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television.