Chrysanthemum is teased by her classmates until her teacher helps her rediscover how beautiful her name really is.

Stanley is excited about Crazy Hair Day at his school, until he discovers that he has gotten the date wrong. Includes an interview with the author.

While the popular Tiffany and athletic Charles make increasingly outrageous promises in their campaigns for President of Barkadelphia School, Otto quietly enters the race, vowing only to try to do what students really want.

A boy expects only the worst until he discovers that librarian Mrs. Beamster is very nice, and the library is his favorite place.

When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.

Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.

Starting with number one for the first day of school, Emily learns the numbers to one hundred in many different ways.

Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.

Violet, who is very shy and hates for anyone to look at her in school, finally comes out of her shell when she is cast as Lady Space in a play about the solar system and saves the production from disaster.