Florence Parry Heide

All the elephant's friends give him advice, but none can solve his problem until the opossum announces friends are to help, not just to give advice.

A list of scary things includes "roller skating down hill when you haven't learned how to stop, getting hugged by somebody you don't like, and finding out your best friend has a best friend who isn't you."

Why would anyone break into a bookmobile and take nothing? The Spotlight Club investigates.

The Spotlight Clubbers create stone rubbings of Civil War—era tombstones for a summer school class on the Civil War. Cindy has chosen the tombstone of Serafina Winslow, who died in 1862. Then, at the neighborhood yard sale, Cindy locates a box of interesting-looking old photos and frames and miscellaneous papers. When she takes it home with her, she discovers Serafina Winslow's journal inside! Things get even more mysterious when Cindy finds a sketch...

Relates the misadventures of Marigold, who does not agree with anyone, as she shops with her mother for a coat, becomes interested in a new hobby, finds a way to "bug" her best friend, Maxine, and imaginatively copes with finding the right outfit for the first day of school.

A collection of poems about surviving daily life presented from a child's point of view.

George's father finally agrees to let him have a pet and that's when all the trouble begins.

"Bigelow is afraid of almost everything until he meets the tiny Mrs. Pimberly, who thinks he is a giant, and gives him some surprising advice"--