At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understand and overcome her problem.

When a young pig knocks on a fox's door, the fox thinks dinner has arrived, but the pig has other plans.

A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.

First-grader Jessica, a big worrier, is especially afraid that she will make a mistake when she is reading in front of her class and parents on Reading Theater Day, but after lots of practice reading to her dog Wiggles, she performs perfectly.

We The People of the United States ... almost lost Thanksgiving. Thankfully, Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and author, believed in its importance, and persuaded President Lincoln to transform Thanksgiving Day into a national holiday. With an introduction by the author.

Readers are held in playful suspense as they follow the adventures of Andrew and Zo Zo, two children reading spooky books on a dark and stormy night. An A.L.A. Notable Video.

Tricky Fox uses his sack to trick everyone he meets into giving him ever more valuable items.

Honey-- honey-- lion!: After working together to obtain honey, the African honey badger always shares it with his partner, the honeyguide bird, until one day when the honey badger becomes greedy and his feathered friend decides to teach him a lesson. When greedy Badger decides to keep the honeycomb all to himself, instead of sharing it with Honeyguide bird, he is chased through the pond, over an anthill, and through a landscape of many exotic animals...

Based on the book Aunt Chip and the great Triple Creek dam affair by Patricia Polacco: When the town of Triple Creek first built a huge TV tower, Aunt Chip took to her bed, promising, "there will be consequences." Now, 50 years later, the townspeople are so obsessed with their televisions that they are oblivious to everything else. Based on the book The best story by Eileen Spinelli: The Red Brick Library was having a contest: Write the Best Story...

An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind.