Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask

Jim's anxieties on his first day of school are happily forgotten when he makes a new friend.

Too late to be a candidate for class president, Eddie decides to be campaign manager for his friend.

A 13-year-old has trouble adjusting to life at a California boarding school after her carefree days in the Alaskan wilderness.

Tormented by taunts that her father is in prison, thirteen-year-old Queenie retaliates by causing a lot of trouble until she discovers something

The class cut-up is given his come-uppance by gentle, timid Ellen Tebbits.

Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London School, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

Otis, a mischievous boy, is the classroom comedian and show-off, but yet everyone likes him. Grades 3-5.