Poydar, Nancy

Violet has a great new backpack with wheels and zippers, but when the many pockets distract and cause her to misplace her homework she tells a lie to cover it up, so the teacher gives her an even harder assignment.

Fearing that her report card will not contain good news, Isabel tries to devise a way to hide it from her parents.

Ruby's homemade valentines blow away while she is walking to school, but she figures out a way to give everyone a valentine anyway.

Sam and his classmates dread Friday, the day they are to take the infamous Big Test.

All over town, Ivy Green and her bus driver and her teacher and the other school employees get ready for the first day of school.

Fearing that his Halloween at school will be ruined because he has left his pirate outfit on the bus, Arnold uses his imagination to come up with a new costume.