Kevin Henkes

"Amelia Albright dreams about going to Florida for spring break like everyone else in her class, but her father--a cranky and stubborn English professor--has decided Florida is too much adventure. Now Amelia is stuck at home with him and her babysitter, the beloved Mrs. O'Brien. The week ahead promises to be boring, until Amelia meets Casey at her neighborhood art studio. Amelia has never been friends with a boy before, and the experience is both...

The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they always are.

Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something unexpected?--Publisher.

Penny instantly loves the doll her grandmother sends her, but finding the perfect name for her is a challenge.

Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

Ten-year-old Wedge wants his old life back—the one that made sense.

Instead, he has a brand-new stepfamily and a new house far away from his friends. Plus his bedroom window faces a seven-foot castle that marks the eighteenth hole of his stepfather's miniature golf course.

Can Wedge really respect a man who wears a plastic crown and calls himself "King"? It's a lot to deal with, but Wedge may not have a choice.

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Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.

A mouse named Wemberly, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to be anxious about when she faces the first day of nursery school.

When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding.

Lily es una ratoncita que está fascinada con su nuevo profesor. Un buen día se le ocurre llevar a la escuela los regalos que su abuela ha comprado el fin de semana, entre los cuales está su fantástico bolso de plástico morado. Intenta llamar la atención de todos para enseñarlo, hasta que consigue que su profesor se enfade.