Pennypacker, Sara

With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.

Worried about his first day at a new school, eight-year-old Stuart wears his magic cape and hopes that it will help him.

Ming-Li vows to save as many sparrows as she can after her country's leader called sparrows the enemy of the farmer and banished them all from China.

When her favorite teacher, who is the only one who understands her, goes on sabbatical to Egypt, Clementine concocts a clever scheme to get him back, which leads to disaster.

With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.

While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.

Bored because there is nothing to do in the house to which his family has just moved and worried about starting third grade in a new school, Stuart makes a magical cape out of his uncle's ties and has a series of adventures.

Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show.

After learning that her favorite teacher will be leaving for a trip to Egypt and will be absent for the remainder of the year, Clementine devises a plan to get rid of the substitute and get Mr. D'Matz to stay.