Marylin Hafner

Thirteen Halloween poems for beginning readers.

Presents twelve poems about Thanksgiving, including "When Daddy carves the Turkey, " "I Ate Too Much, " "Daddy's Football Game, " and "If Turkeys Thought."

Explains how bacteria and viruses affect the human body and how the body fights them.

Clyde, the rabbit, is ready to start school, but after talking with his brother, he is worried about what will happen at lunchtime.

Raymond does not want to start going to school, but once there he experiences the excitement of giving book reports, learning about dinosaurs and whales, taking part in a play, and writing a publisher about a mistake he finds in a reference book.

Best friends Mimi and Mandy set up a haunted house as part of a game and end up scaring themselves.

A teacher invites her students to bring their pets in each Monday for sharing day, but by the end of the year, she has a classroom full of "forgotten" animals.

Describes the meaning and traditions of Hanukkah as five children and their family celebrate the holiday.

One day when Mom returns home she is greeted by surprise after surprise from each of her six children and her husband.

Lucille has so much trouble getting her snowsuit on that she is almost too tired to go outside and join her brother and sister playing in the snow.