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Why I don't want to go to school today: Bully B. What Bully B. does: Blocks my way, shoves me,…
calls me weirdo. What everyone else does: Nothing. An intimate look at the worlds of the bullied and the bully - and the ways in which the universe connects them. Grades K-3. 2018.
All kindergarden teachers are nervous about starting school. Miss Macintosh has a solution: she simply isn't going. With the help…
of the other teachers, she's out of bed, dressed and fed, and on the bus. But she still thinks: School is not for me. Finally, standing in front of her students, she has an idea to make everyone feel better about being new. Grades K-3. 2016.
A Tanzanian schoolgirl struggles with a long walk to and from school that leaves her no daylight in which to…
do homework. When studying at lunchtime makes her miss out on the bicycle library's visit, her compassionate classmates find a way to share the bicycles so that everyone can reach home. Grades K-3. 2015.
"There was a wolf called Wilson who couldn't count to ten. He wouldn't learn to write his name. He never…
used a pen.” Whiffy Wilson thinks school would be boring or maybe scary. Fortunately his friend Dotty is on hand to show him that school is fun. Soon, Whiffy is in his element, and when he gets a gold star for all his great work he realises that school is the best thing ever! Grades K-3. 2014.
Mr. Fish recalls how, on his very first day of school, he anxiously went to one classroom after another watching…
students do things he could not, until Miss Hewitt showed him to the right room for beginners. Grades K-3. 2014.
Rosie is jealous of her classmate Violet, who stars in gym class, choir practice, at the lunch table, and everywhere…
else. When the class project is to grow pea plants in little pots on the windowsill at the back of the room, everyone is excited. Then fuming Rosie secretly pushes soil on top of Violet’s plant. But when Violet is at home sick for several days, Rosie not only undoes the damage but she also cares for Violet’s plant, and the teacher calls Rosie “the best.” Grades K-3. 2011.
Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she…
can't wait to begin! But how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream. Grades K-3. 2012.
When students in Mr. Tiffin's class are invited to solve a riddle during a field trip to an apple orchard,…
it is Tara's daydreams that may lead to the answer. Grades K-3. 2013.
Willow is thrilled the whole class, including her, is invited to classmate Kristabelle's fantastic birthday party. But then the bossy…
birthday girl starts crossing guests off the list when they dare cross her. Grades K-3. 2013.
Justin has lost the hat his grandmother made for him, and if he is to find it in time for…
her visit he will have to go talk to Mr. Rumkowsky, the gruff old school custodian in charge of the Lost and Found. Grades K-3. 2012.
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making…
fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her. Grades K-3. 2012.
