Henry really likes kindergarten-there's painting, singing, story time and lots of new things to learn. But there's one thing Henry doesn't like: show and tell! His legs get all shaky and he's too shy to speak.

First-grader Montgomery Gerald Morris enjoys an exciting year as his class acquires a pair of parakeets as pets, he loses his first tooth, and he becomes a big brother.

Little Brown Bear does not want to go to school, so he tries various jobs instead.

"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 wait-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"--

A literal-minded first-grader's first day of school is filled with confusing adventures, much to her delight.

The six horrible Herdman children create mayhem during Halloween. Annotation. The Herdmans plus Halloween have always spelled disaster. Every year these six kids -- the worst in the history of Woodrow Wilson School, and possibly even the world -- wreak havoc on the whole town. Now the mayor has had it. He's decided to cancel Halloween. And what's Halloween without candy? And without trick-or-treating? The Herdmans manage to turn the worst Halloween...

A grandfather relates to his grandson tales of the small country school he attended in the 1940s.

Hannah looks forward to Robin Hill School's celebration of one hundred days of classes, but when a cold keeps her home the day of the party she decides to bring in the one hundred buttons she found anyway.

Rosie's rival, Violet, outdoes her in everything until the class plants seeds for a unit on gardening.