An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.

Three billy goats must outwit the big, ugly troll that lives under the bridge they have to cross on their way up the mountain.

Illustrations and minimal text relate the familiar fable of the race between a slow tortoise and a quick but foolish hare.

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.

Presents the classic tale of three youngsters who are careless with their mittens, but who turn out to be good little kittens after all.

Presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.

As Baby Bear tries to find his way home through the forest, he asks many different woodland creatures for help and finds that much of their advice is more comforting than helpful.

Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident about...