Barbara Bottner

A first-grade girl who does not like to read stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one that might change her mind.

Archer is worried about Kevin, his missing turtle, but even after checking the yard and tidying his room, he cannot find Kevin until he learns to think like a turtle.

"A cold needs a LOT of things. It needs a comfy bed by a window, warm socks, and plenty of Dad's goofy jokes. Sometimes a cold needs to be left alone. Sometimes it just needs a little time. As a little girl waits for her bad case of the sniffles to run its course, sporting a red nose that just won't seem to go away, she learns that sometimes a cold needs...what a cold needs."--

"Priscilla is obsessed with gorillas. But when her ape-like behavior gets her sent to the Thinking Corner, Priscilla wonders if she is really channeling her inner gorilla, or just being a troublemaker"--

A school librarian encourages her students to make up stories, and teaches a lesson about bullying in the process.

When Rosemary mistakenly thinks that everyone has forgotten her birthday, she sulks both at home and at school.