Tracy Bishop

"A spunky young girl tries out different endeavors--from ballet to karate--and feels like she fails at each one. Finally her mother sits her down and gives her the encouragement she needs to persevere and succeed--and most importantly to not give up"--

After Alfred the turtle spends a morning at the park, his foot hurts, and it's up to Pipsie to figure out what happened. As Alfred shows Pipsie where he went that day, they come upon all kinds of insects, and Pipsie finds clues that lead her on a twisty and even slightly stinky nature mystery

Dan wants to play on the big blue slide, but the big girl tells him to go away. Dan is sad, but then he asks Tim and the big girl to play on the slide with him. Connect to the nonfiction text pair, Play 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.