McDonald, Megan

Three stories in which Beezy cracks nuts and riddles, picks berries, and plays baseball.

Beezy and her best friend Merlin, who live in Florida, wait out a hurricane, find a dog, and make friends with a circus performer.

An old man tells his grandchildren how he and a friend accidentally smashed the pumpkin his sister was growing and had to find a replacement.

Depicts in simple rhyme who is missing from a craft class group photo on picture day.

Amanda, who loves insects, and Maggie, who loves reptiles, are best friends until Emily joins their class and Maggie feels left out.

As Susan takes her bath and then goes to bed, she is disturbed by a sequence of troublesome and scary creatures.

Grandpa tells stories of the fruit and vegetable huckster in his childhood neighborhood, a man he learns to appreciate after a rocky start.

When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.

Julie and her cousins set out on an old-fashioned wagon train to celebrate the Bicentennial, and Julie is unprepared for the challenges of prairie life, but when she and her cousins have a chance to make history, Julie rises to the challenge.

In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.