Impatient to begin reading, a first-grader doesn't realize that there is more to reading than books.

Mrs. Toggle and her class prepare for the arrival of a new student whom they expect to be a dinosaur.

Derek thinks he'd prefer to be a dog until he starts school and finds out it's even more fun being a boy.

Sister Bear, nervous about entering kindergarten, overcomes her fears when she discovers that school is really fun.

Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing the class her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.

Out for an early morning walk, a chicken wanders into a school that she mistakes for a fancy barn.

The misadventures of a young boy whose mischievous spirit constantly gets him into trouble.

Unable to compete with her friends' fancy clothes and running ability, irrepressible six-year-old Junie B. finds her own way to make the new boy at school like her.

Melanie and April turn a deserted lot into an imaginary Egypt where they spend many hours enacting rituals and consulting oracles, but there are real dangers and problems lurking outside their make-believe world that almost bring their game to a disastrous end.

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