Derby, Sally

Six children aged from kindergarten to the fifth grade share their excitement for the new school year, from meeting new teachers and friends to preparing to leave in the morning.

"[Text and illustrations present a collection of poems in which] readers meet a diverse group of six children ranging in age from Kindergarten through fifth grade. With nerves and excitement each child gears up for a new school year by hustling in the morning, meeting new teachers and new classmates during the day, and heading home with homework and relief by day's end"--Amazon.

Every Sunday night a young girl and her grandmother go on an imaginary shopping trip using play money and the advertisements in the newspaper as a guide for their 'purchases.'".

"You never heard of the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar? Child, where've you been? So begins this biography of a great nineteenth-century American poet. From his childhood in poverty through his struggles to find acceptance as a writer to his immense fame and untimely death, Dunbar's story is one of triumph and tragedy. But his much-beloved poetry, written in both Standard English and in dialect, remains a legacy that continues to delight readers today.".

A young Afro-American girl describes her favorite playground--the front steps of her home on which she and her friends play and experience the changing seasons.

When the plant he is minding for a stranger grows unusual buds, Jacob soon finds himself the temporary owner of a houseful of magical cats.

A young girl who is tired of eating mush for breakfast every day seeks solace with her grandmother, but comes to realize that she misses her family after all.

Two young men from the village of Tarnof try to prove that a peddler has stolen Farmer Kohl's horse and hidden it in his sack.

A little mouse learns that there is much more to the world than he'd ever imagined.

When Mr. Wuerst, the substitute kindergarten teacher at Merryvale School, drops his glasses into the frying pan one morning, he ends up wearing a dish towel to school instead of his scarf and he mistakes the class gerbils for fur caps.