juvenile fiction

This collection of ten short stories presents episodes of education gone awry.

Little Critter's procrastination turns a little homework into a big job for himself and his patient mother.

From spring to fall with the help of her grandfather, Jody learns to plant, care for, harvest, prepare, and eat some runner beans.

Jessica goes to the hospital after she breaks her arm and learns about different x-ray techniques, and includes six actual x-ray images.

Izzie Lizzie the alligator raises her babies while humans study her eggs that didn't hatch to help make her environment more clean.

A lyrical evocation of how penguins, cod fish, seals, and other animals and plants living near the South Pole respond to the voices of spring.

Whether by showing his baby pictures to his teacher or smoothing his hair with spit, Andrew's mother constantly embarrasses him while at the mall until he figures out a way to get even.

Rhyming text and illustrations present a recipe for how to bake a pie from all the things that make America great.

When Harry wins a pony in a contest, his friends try to find a way to help him keep it, but it is his aunt and her friends who come up with a solution.

A young groundhog builds a burrow of his own for the first time in a backyard that has plenty of food and other conveniences, but he still must keep an eye out for predators.