Liz Garton Scanlon

Precocious eight-year-old Bibsy navigates a relationship with a teacher who thinks she talks too much.

A class that is terribly disappointed in their lack of a class pet discovers that having a class plant is the best thing ever.

When Lulu's feeling well, she climbs every tree in sight, especially the tallest ones, the ones with the widest branches, the ones with the stickiest sap. But when Lulu's sick, she's not allowed outside. She wonders if the trees are lonely without her. Maybe the birds are too. Without Lulu, nobody climbs the trees but the sun... which casts a shadow on Lulu's wall... for her to climb.

This is a truth about growing up. 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...

When a substitute teacher named Miss Pelly comes to class, one student bristles at the change in routine-Miss Pelly doesn't follow the rules like Mrs. Giordano. But in time, our student learns that even though the substitute may do things a little differently, and she may be a bit silly, mixing things up might not be so bad. Told in a series of epistolary poems, this funny, relatable picture book is a great fit for classrooms and for any child nervous...