Patrice Barton

Brian has always felt invisible at school, but when a new student, Justin, arrives, everything changes.

A rhyming story that encourages children to get outside and play.

Rosie's rival, Violet, outdoes her in everything until the class plants seeds for a unit on gardening.

The smiling moon watches over a baby girl in China whose parents love her but cannot take care of her, and guides a childless couple that lives far away to the daughter for whom they yearn.

Jonah tags along when Maise takes the dog, Tinker, out, and he turns their walk into an exercise in imagination.

Twelve-year-old Anna's friend Andee spearheads a campaign to bring Fan from China to Cincinnati on a year-long cultural exchange, but before Fan even arrives Anna's concerned that Andee and Fan are too different to get along.

"Libby and her great-aunt, Lobo, both learn the Pledge of Allegiance--Libby for school, and Lobo for her U.S. citizenship ceremony"--