Elizabeth Garton Scanlon

To stop the wind from blowing everything upside down, a young girl named Kate uses her old wheelbarrow to drag some young trees up a steep hill where she plants them, providing a little green, along with the wind protection, to the man who lives on the hill.

"When a young boy gets a cold, he just wants his mommy. But his stuffy nose makes it difficult for him to call out to his mom--not 'Bob, ' who happens to be the family dog"--

"When Lulu's feeling well, she climbs every tree in sight. But when Lulu's sick, all she has is her imagination and a shadow"--

Noodle, a worm, is sad and feeling bad about himself, but his friend Lou, a bird, convinces him that he is likeable just as he is.

In a series of letters a student laments the absence of her teacher and daily routine, but she soon realizes there are benefits to mixing things up, and that perhaps having a substitue teacher is not so bad afterall.

Illustrations and rhyming text portray the birthday party of a beloved baby.

Twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program's scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that's full of surprises.

"Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking. For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies--unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably--on the night Millie babysits. There's nothing she could have done. There's...

Follows a circle of family and friends over the course of a day from morning till night, showing the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.

This collection of 40 back-to-school tales from Scholastic Storybook Treasures is perfect for kids and families who love to watch classic storybooks come to life.