awards

Amber Brown loves the second grade but wonders if she will ever receive an award from Deskarina, the desk fairy, for keeping her desk clean.

Franklin, attending his first meeting of the Woodland Trailblazers, is dismayed to learn it is going to take some time to earn badges, but by the end of the evening, he has had so much fun, he is glad to have a reason to keep coming back.

Biographies of the nine women who have been recipients of the Nobel Prize in science.

Gilbert and his first-grade classmates are nervous about their performance on the last day of school, curious about the awards they will receive, sad to be leaving their teacher, and excited about summer vacation.