Mike Gordon

Nia is afraid to tell her mother, who is shy because she speaks little English, that Nia volunteered her to organize a party for the first-graders of Robin Hill School.

"The Robin Hill School first graders celebrate Earth Day in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read in the Robin Hill School series! The kids in Mrs. Connor's class are celebrating Earth Day, and everyone has lots of ideas on how to save the Earth--except Emma. She's worried her ideas aren't good enough. With the help of her dad and Mrs. Connor, Emma learns that her small ideas can have big results!"--Publisher marketing.

When Hannah goes to the beach with her mother, she is shocked to find her first-grade teacher, Mrs. Connor, lying there in a bathing suit as if she were an ordinary person.

When Katie draws Andrew's name in the first-grade Christmas gift exchange, she decides not to give him a present because he has said mean things about her reindeer sweater.

Introduces the life cycle of frogs, describing how a tadpole emerges from frogspawn, eats plants and grows, and is transformed into a frog.

A mother offers her child many places to sleep, but the child wants to stay in bed, sleeping as God intended.

Introduces catepillars, describing how they hatch from an egg, eat and grow, shed they skins, form a chrysalis, and transform into a butterfly.

On a play date, a young girl and her new friend ask one another many questions about what princesses do.