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Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear. They're talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare-ups in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the housing market, upswings in global warming. The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word terror. Fear, it seems, has taken up a hundred-year lease on the building next door and set up shop. Oversized and rude, fear herds us into a prison of unlocked doors....
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Petra, the newest dragon master, is scared to death of the hydra dragon she is supposed to bond with--but when the hydra accidentally poisons the King, and then her fellow dragon master, Drake, she must find a way to connect with her dragon, because only the hydra's song can cure them.
10) Afraid
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Simple text explains the emotion of fear and how it manifests in children.
11) Will it be okay?
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A mother comforts a child about her special fears concerning dogs, thunder, snakes, and other things.
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Drew and her friend Walker, desperate to get revenge against stuck-up Tabby and Lee for a nasty Halloween joke, come up with a plan designed to scare the wits out of the snobby duo, but Drew and Walker end up getting a fright themselves when their trick goes a little too well.
15) Hannah and Sugar
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"Every day after school, Hannah sees her classmate's dog, Sugar. Hannah politely declines to pet Sugar, because Hannah is afraid of dogs. But one day, Sugar goes missing, and it's Hannah who finds him"--
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"At fourteen, Amber could boast of killing her guinea pig, threatening to burn down her home, and seducing men in exchange for gifts. She used the tools she had available to get what she wanted, like all children. But unlike other children, she didn't care about the damage she inflicted. A few miles away, Lenny Skutnik cared so much about others that he jumped into an ice-cold river to save a drowning woman. What is responsible for the extremes of...
19) The doghouse
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Cow, Pig, Duck, and Mouse are afraid to retrieve their ball when it goes into the dog's house, but when they do go in they are pleasantly surprised.
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