children's stories

The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.

Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.

Follows a river from its source as a mountain stream formed from melting snow, as it rushes over rocks and through valleys to the busy city, and finally to its end, where it joins the sea.

Arthur has to write a story as a homework assignment and keeps changing his idea of what to write as he talks to his friends.

Paddington Bear tries to help out Mr. Gruber, but often Paddington's help creates more problems than it solves.

Paddington and the Brown family have a series of misadventures on their vacation in France.

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Sarah decides to do her third-grade report on the country of England but later discovers England is not very interesting. Then Sarah goes on a sleepover that is filled with surprises and she comes up with a new idea.

Continues the adventures of the very small bear who becomes part of the Brown family of London.

Eleven-year-old Flor is saddened when her mother leaves the family and Flor's best friend moves away, but a new friend--the daughter of a geologist who comes to Moonpenny Island in search of fossils--provides Flor with a fresh take on life.