Read-it! readers. Red level

Max, Zoe, and their classmates head off on a Groundhog Day field trip, hoping they might get to see a real groundhog.

Max learns about recycling while on a school field trip and practices what he was taught at home.

Max is thrilled when he gets a chance to visit his friend DeShawn, who lives far away with his father, on a weekend when DeShawn is staying with his mother.

After putting on safety gear, Allie is ready to learn to ride her new bicycle.

Wendell spends so much time worrying that he cannot even rest.

In the hopes of receiving some mail of her own, Paula writes a letter to her grandparents.

Omar, who is Muslim, invites his friend Max to his home to celebrate the end Ramadan, which is called "Eid-al-Fitr," with a big feast with his family, and he also shows him the Quran.

Max has a wonderful time when he accepts his friend Zoe's invitation to join her and her grandparents for dinner.

Jamal is going into the fifth grade and his sister Anisa is going into the first, and when their Dad takes them both shopping for school supplies they learn they need different things.

Children realize the many ways in which they can share and do things together.