fear

Mrs. Green has heard all kinds of horrible things about her new students and fears it will be a terrible year, only to be pleasantly surprised when they arrive looking like perfectly normal children.

Hank Zipzer in second grade is sure that there is a zombie invasion, so he fakes a stomachache to avoid trick-or-treating with his friends.

Archie has no fear except a secret one--the ocean and the creatures that lurk in it--so he tries over and over to invent a way to fly to Iceberg Nine, where his fellow penguins are having a fish fry.

All of the animals in the class face their fear of danger and practice wholeheartedly what their teacher Miss Mingo and the fire fighter Chief Grizzly teach them to do in a fire drill with excellent results. Includes a brief description of the defense mechanisms that animals use to protect themselves from danger.

Scaredy Squirrel is afraid to sleep at night for fear he will dream of dragons, ghosts, vampire bats, and polka-dot monsters, so he makes an elaborate plan to avoid sleeping.

Kate has a problem. She's terrified of her aunt's big bulldog. Kate's aunt calls the dog Cookie. Kate calls it a monster! One day, after fleeing the apartment to escape Cookie, Kate takes the strangest elevator ride ever--complete with a mysterious package and floor after floor of real-life monsters! It takes all of her courage, but Kate soon finds that the monsters aren't so scary after all. Kate makes some new friends, and she discovers the perfect way to tame her own personal beast.

Pete the cat and his family are having fun at the beach. Pete is afraid of the water. Will he take a chance and go in the water after his brother Bob offers to teach him to surf?.

As the youngest rider in her first show-jumping competition, ten-year-old Antonia struggles to overcome her fear.

A little boy ant is afraid to go back to school after the Ant Hill School is destroyed, but his mom helps him overcome his fear.

Mandy is thrilled to spend the summer at a Montreal circus camp, but she is forced to face her fears when another aerialist is killed in a fall.