Stanley is excited about Crazy Hair Day at his school, until he discovers that he has gotten the date wrong. Includes an interview with the author.

While the popular Tiffany and athletic Charles make increasingly outrageous promises in their campaigns for President of Barkadelphia School, Otto quietly enters the race, vowing only to try to do what students really want.

Violet, who is very shy and hates for anyone to look at her in school, finally comes out of her shell when she is cast as Lady Space in a play about the solar system and saves the production from disaster.

A young boy discovers that the new gym teacher is not as horrible as he had feared.

Crisantemo learns to deal with jealous classmates who make fun of her name.

"Vashti doesn't think she can draw, but her teacher encourages her to "just make a mark and see where it takes you." Vashti at first ventures one small and unremarkable dot, but is soon making big dots and small dots, red dots, blue dots, and purple dots. At the school art show, her entire collection of dots turns heads and wins praise"--Container insert.

When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.

A boy expects only the worst until he discovers that librarian Mrs. Beamster is very nice, and the library is his favorite place.

Explains how little dinosaurs should behave during a typical school day.