fear

Jeff is afraid of the monsters that might be lurking in the dark when he goes to bed, until his new kitten shows him the way to be brave.

A tzar's fear of going to the edge of the world grows when Baba Yaga threatens him, but in time he learns that fear of the unknown is a senseless fear.

Ben must face his fear of the attic in order to find his sister's pet snake.

Gabby's new figure-skating coach pushes her to do the same, difficult jump on which she fell the previous year, injuring her ankle.

Eight-year-old Maddie loves spending perfect days with her mother eating ice cream and playing in the park, but when her new stepfather, Sam, joins their family, Maddie fears she will never have another perfect day again.

Follows the humorous attempts of Shark and Lobster to conquer their fear of tigers.

While her adoptive American mother is away, twelve-year-old Zoya confides in her diary about her revived fears about the Buka, an old woman who waits in the shadows to snatch children, and confronts some truths about her early childhood in her native Russia.

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.

A parent's teasing assurances that ghosts, witches, vampires, and other creatures are no danger fuel the imagination of a child in the dark.

In this cumulative story, a little boy overcomes his fear of the squeaky noise his door makes when his grandmother closes it each night before he goes to sleep.