A very literal little boy is confused by all the figures of speech he hears over the course of his first day of school, but knows he is very happy to get home again.
Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.
On her first day at a new school, Adelita makes new friends through a lesson on vegetables, including how some vegetables are called cousins because they share certain characteristics.
Class hamsters Max and Mo return to school for a semester in the art room where they discover, to their dismay, that the "big ones" do not know their names.
After moving, eight-year-old Mallory struggles with being new at school, especially because her mother is now the music teacher and director of the third grade play.
A mouse named Wemberly, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school.
Frankie begins his first day at Miss Wart's Academy for Ghouls and Goblins excited and eager to learn, but when the other students tease him for being different, he demonstrates what he already knows about being scary.