Prunella knows so much about insects that people get bored listening to her talk, but when her classroom fills up with bees during show-and-tell, Prunella saves the day. Includes facts about insects.

When Lola is worried about starting school, her older brother Charlie reassures her.

Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.

Jessica worries about collecting 100 objects to take to class for the 100th day of school.

When Groundhog realizes he needs helpers all over the country to accurately forecast the weather, he establishes a school to teach young groundhogs how to properly determine when spring will arrive.

Ginny makes a to do list for her seventh grade year, which includes landing a role in the school play, trying to make friends, ignoring her horoscope, and going to see her grandpa Joe in Florida; but she always seems to come up short in accomplishing any of it.

Introduces the letters of the alphabet while telling what happened at kindergarden when Miss Bindergarten was too ill to come to school.

Sharron's father has disappeared, and she tries to cope with her feelings of loss through the love of a stuffed dog he gave her.

It's almost Thanksgiving, and Tuyet is excited. There's just one problem: her Vietnamese American family is having duck for Thanksgiving dinner--not turkey! What will her teacher and her classmates think? To her surprise, Tuyet finds out there is more to Thanksgiving than turkey, and she starts to see the holiday in a whole new way.