Fran Manushkin

Katie misses school while she is home with the flu.

Katie loves being the best dancer in her dance class, so when Mattie joins the class and begins to outshine her, Katie is jealous.

Katie and her class visit a farm, and find out where eggs and milk come from.

Miss Winkle separates the class into teams and instructs them to build towers out of paper cups, and the group who builds the tallest tower wins--but they have very little success until Pedro has an idea about how it can be done.

Katie's dad surprises her with a trip to a ranch where she can ride a real horse.

Katie Woo wants to learn an instrument, but she is having trouble deciding what kind of music suits her best.

With a new clubhouse in his yard, Pedro decides to start a mystery-solving club. Will he and his friends find the clues to crack the case? A simple plot, relatable characters, and reader-support tools are delivered with the young reader in mind.

Katie's class is building model volcanoes, but when most of the ingredients end up on Katie, she blows her top.

Pedro enters the same karate class that his friends Katie and JoJo, and learns some of the ninja moves that he admires in the movies.

Katie finds a sick kitten, and when her father comes home they take the kitty to Dr. Wong's veterinarian clinic, where they find all different kinds of pets waiting for the doctor's attention.