Timothy learns about being accepted and making friends during the first week of his first year at school.

Yoko and her classmates welcome Juanita, a new student from Texas, to their classroom.

While the popular Tiffany and athletic Charles make increasingly outrageous promises in their campaigns for President of Canine Country Day School, Otto quietly enters the race, vowing only to try to do what students really want.

Traces the experiences of Miss Harmony's alligator kindergarteners, where a classmate throws disruptive temper tantrums.

Kindergartner Yoko not only learns to write her letters and numbers in English, she shows her teacher and fellow students how to write their names using Japanese calligraphy.

When Fiona forgets to bring the cupcakes to school for Felix's birthday, she begins to feel guilty after she tells a tale that gets three second graders in trouble.

Fourteen-year-old Helen investigates what she considers the false arrest of a classmate, and is terrified by death threats, which no adult will take seriously.

Starting with number one for the first day of school, Emily learns the numbers to one hundred in many different ways.

Confusion arises as Yoko's classmates secretly trade Valentine's Day cards.

A collection of six stories featuring the teachers and students of Hilltop School as they learn about taking turns, working together, and never giving up.