fiction

Arthur's determination to prove he is responsible enough to have a puppy brings him a menagerie of animals to care for.

A lonely cockroach named Crickwing has a creative idea that saves the day for the leaf-cutter ants when their fierce forest enemies attack them.

Much to the distress of his parents and classmates, the only way Gerald communicates is through boings, toots, and whistles.

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

Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.

When Henry wants to start a paper route, he receives unexpected help from a little girl, Ramona.

A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.

To teach his granddaughter the value of books, a grandfather leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.

A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.

A young koala, longing to hear her mother speak lovingly to her as she did before other children came along, plans to win her distracted parent's attention.