fear

With help from Adam, a boy in her third grade class, Lilley gains enough confidence to stand up to the school bus bully, Mean Maureen Green.

After being separated from his older brothers on Halloween night, a fearful boy finds himself lost on Monster Street, but is relieved when he encounters another curious trick-or-treater.

While on their first camping trip ever, Rae looks forward to tracking a wild beast but it is a fearful Otis who first encounters the Grumbling Splunk, whose grumbling might not be so scary after all.

When Ludlow begins to play baseball to help combat his fears, he is placed so far out in the outfield that he becomes involved with an adjacent game in which a most astonishing thing happens.

Chuck E. Beaver is afraid of performing a solo at the school concert in front of his friends and family but eventually overcomes this fear.

In photographs and simple text, children contrast times when they are afraid with other times when they are not.

Charlie loses his nerve in a riding accident.

TJ must face his fear of failure when the first rocket he builds is anything but a success.

Shy Sara panics when her fourth-grade teacher announces that her class is to perform a play before the entire school, but eventually learns that stage fright can sometimes be healthy.

Cari and her three friends are disappointed when they arrive on Cape Cod looking forward to a summer spent working at The Howling Wolf Inn only to find the old place deserted, and their dismay turns to horror when they find themselves unable to leave.