Fran Manushkin

It all starts with a sneeze! Katie Woo catches the flu. She feels yucky and has to miss a few days of school. Will she ever feel like herself again?

When Pedro receives some money from his grandmother for his birthday, he wonders what he should do with it. His friend Katie keeps her money in a piggy bank, and his friend JoJo uses a jar. Pedro would like to make his cash grow into mountains of money! In the end, Pedro finds the perfect thing to do with his money in this early chapter book.

Katie is so excited when her name is drawn to take the class pet, Binky, home for the weekend. Things start off great, and Katie takes good care of Binky. But when she loses him, she dreads telling her teacher and classmates.

What makes Pedro a first-class friend? One, he will bravely search out the classroom stink. Two, he loves driving monster trucks. Three, he knows how to have fun, even with a broken arm. And four, he's even a friend to his little brother! Read his latest adventures in this early chapter book from author Fran Manushkin and join in the fun!

When Katie's Aunt Patty asks her to be the flower girl at her wedding, Katie is thrilled! But then she starts thinking about all the things that could go wrong. It's up to JoJo and Katie's other friends to get Katie feeling ready for the big day. A special craft project, along with a glossary and reader response questions, round out this Katie Woo story.

"¡Ji YA! Cuando Pedro ve un dibujo animado sobre ninjas, tiene muchos deseos de ser un ninja. Por eso está muy entusiasmado cuando su papá lo lleva a tomar lecciones de karate. Tiene Pedro todo lo que necesita para ser un ninja?"--Page 4 of cover. Pedro enters the same karate class that his friends Katie and JoJo attend, and learns some of the ninja moves that he admires in the movies.

Something in Miss Winkle's classroom smells really bad, and when the class bully declares that it must be the new boy, Pablo, Pedro steps in to defend him--but the class still needs to know what is causing the stench and dispose of it. Algo en el aula de Miss Winkle huele muy mal, y cuando el acosador de la clase declara que debe ser el chico nuevo, Pablo, Pedro interviene para defenderlo, pero la clase todavía necesita saber qué está causando...

"El entrenador Rush está buscando un arquero para el próximo gran partido de fútbol. Pedro quiere el puesto, pero teme ser demasiado lento y demasiado pequeño. Solo puede hader una cosa: ¡practicar! ¿Podrá Pedro lograr su gran objetivo?"--Page 4 of cover. Pedro would love to be the goalie in the team's first game, but another boy is bigger--so all his friends come over to help him practice before the tryout.

Pedro is excited for his class's trip to the aquarium, but when he gets separated from the others near the shark tank, he gets frightened and starts running to and fro--until he takes a hint from the shark to stop going in circles.

Pedro runs for class president against his friend Katie Woo.