fear

When Mimi and Mandy try to scare someone as part of a game, they are the ones who are frightened.

Katie is embarrassed that she is scared to do backward moves during her gymnastic routines, and her friends' efforts to help her just make things worse, but then she learns a secret from an unexpected source that helps her overcome her fears.

Tuck, a little pig taking swimming lessons, overcomes his fear of the water with the help of his lucky rubber spider.

Text and illustrations show that everyone is afraid of something whether it is cats, thunder, wind, airplanes, or darkness.

As the winter solstice approaches, Reggie suspects that her timid younger brother might be a target for the Vours, supernatural creatures who feast on fear and attack on the eve of the winter solstice.

When his family goes on vacation to visit his grandparents in Iowa, nine-year-old Mikey is continually faced with his fear of drowning.

Brave Maddie is secretly afraid of putting her head in the water--a fear she must overcome if she wants to go on a boating trip with her family.

Twenty-nine-year-old Valancy, having never been in love, consoles herself with daydreams until she throws caution to the wind and finds her life fulfilled.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe more than two thousand phobias, fears, and anxieties, providing definitions, as well as information on the causes, symptoms, and treatments of a wide range of conditions, and includes a historical overview of the subject.

Marvin the marmoset resents being the object of ridicule by his family and friends, but when they put on a circus, he knows he must conquer his fear of heights in order to gain their respect.