juvenile fiction

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.

When immaculately groomed Ellie gets head lice she is terribly upset, but once she learns some facts about the creatures, she calms down and figures out a way to help her classmates.

Chester Raccoon is very unhappy about leaving his home, a tree that has been marked by tree cutters, so his mother tries to convince him their new home might be even better.

In a letter to his children, a father recounts memories of the role Steve, the tree in their front yard, has played in their lives.

In 1940, thirteen-year-old Tommy's routine of school, playing stickball in his Bronx, New York, neighborhood, talking with his friend Beth, and listening to Dodgers games on the radio changes as his mother's illness and his increasing awareness of the war in Europe transform his world.

Although he reminds his mother that everybody makes mistakes, and provides a lot of examples, young Jack is still in hot water for making three big mistakes while playing with his younger sister on their uncle's wedding day.

Lili is so shy that her voice is never heard in class until the day a good friend needs her help.

Brian is the bravest man in the world except for one thing.

As a boy attempts to convince someone else to take his disappointing pet, he learns to love Norman the goldfish himself.

A wordless tale in which a clever duck outwits a bullying snake.