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A young boy is depicted doing a variety of naughty things for which he is repeatedly admonished, but finally he gets a hug.

David's activities in school include chewing gum, talking out of turn, and engaging in a food fight, causing his teacher to say over and over, "No, David!"

When David gets in trouble, he has excuses right up until bedtime, when he realizes he really is sorry.

Brother Bear likes to tease his sister, but when he's the one who is taunted at school, he understands why Sister gets so mad.

In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the...

Some of the kids at school wonder if Mr. Jolly could be Santa Claus. He keeps the building cold as the North Pole and the school building magically clean. Can he make a miracle happen?

Twelve-year-old Peter relates his life with his troublesome little brother, Fudge.

A grouchy ladybug, looking for a fight, challenges everyone she meets regardless of their size or strength. On board pages.

Jealous of her sister's birthday, Frances becomes mean and selfish, until rare generosity and birthday spirit move her to reluctantly give her coveted gift.

"When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a "CRyan" describing her "terrible experience" while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, including the comment "and I'm not the only one," Gina knows she has to pursue the story. But when Ryan goes silent, Gina is shocked to discover the young woman has died tragically in a jet ski accident while on holiday. Meanwhile, REL counsel Michael Carter finds himself in a...