When Lola is worried about starting school, her older brother Charlie reassures her.

David's activities in school include chewing gum, talking out of turn, and engaging in a food fight, causing his teacher to say over and over, "No, David!"

"Summer is Llama's favorite time, so when the calendar shows that the beginning of school is just a few days away, is Llama ready?"--

Explains how young dinosaurs should behave during a typical school day.

Adelaide and Bear team up to demonstrate to the entire class, including Mrs. Fitz-Pea, that bears make the best writing buddies.

"Adrian Simcox brags about owning a horse, and Chloe just knows he's making stuff up...until she learns an important lesson in empathy"--

In "Theo's Deliciously Different Dumplings," an ECSELent Adventures story, Theo is nervous about his first day at a new school. A lunch box full of his favorite homemade dumplings is just the thing to make him feel better ... or is it? One teasing classmate isn't so sure about this unfamiliar food, and he isn't shy about letting Theo know.--Publisher.

A first-grade girl--who does not like to read--stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one that might change her mind.

"This is no ordinary first journey. The rainy season has come to the Mekong Delta, and An, a young Vietnamese boy, sets out alone in a wooden boat wearing a little backpack and armed only with a single oar. On the way, he is confronted by giant crested waves, heavy rainfall and eerie forests where fear takes hold of him. Although daunted by the dark unknown, An realizes that he is not alone and continues to paddle. He knows it will all be worth it...

Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller. The new librarian is a real fire-breathing dragon who in time learns to trust children with her books. The new librarian at Sunrise Elementary School is a real dragon!