self-confidence

Presents a collection of personal, true life stories based on the experiences of each author in recounting opportunities of challenge, adventure, and success that changed their lives.

Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossam?nd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought. Includes glossaries and maps.

A thirteen-year-old girl in Portland, Oregon, loses all self-doubt when she is zapped by lightning and uses her newfound courage to solve a murder mystery.

Twelve-year-old Ari Fish is sure that the rare trading card he found has changed his luck and that of his soccer team, but after the card is stolen he comes to know that we make our own luck, and that heroes can be fallible.

A baby kangaroo takes his first tentative hops outside of his mama's pouch, meeting other creatures and growing bolder each time.

Tired of continually having his feelings hurt by popular students and bullies, fifth-grader Nathan agrees to try an experimental formula, Hurt-Be-Gone, and becomes a half-dead zombie, a condition which, he soon discovers, has some real advantages.

Best friends Raymond and Graham have looked forward to being the oldest and toughest boys at East Millcreek Elementary School; but everything goes wrong, including the scary teacher.

Convinced that she does not want to go away to camp, a little girl begins to have second thoughts when her mother enrolls in a camp for mothers only.

Fuzzy the sheep and his family help his sister Lizzy try new things and gain self confidence.

When Baby Duck is not sure she is ready to get into the pool with the swim team, her grandfather encourages her.