Offers advice to parents who have children in the first grade on how to help their children learn, develop socially, and work with the teacher. (view table of contents)

Offers advice to parents who have children entering the second grade on helping with their homework, and motivating them to learn, and offers an overview of what they should be learning throughout the year. (view table of contents)

Helping serve a Thanksgiving Day meal to poor people at the local church, Dee and her class are struck with a crisis, but thanks to a can of peas that she carefully inscribes with her name, Dee saves the day and makes a new friend.

When Wei Fong loses his tooth as he and his family are waiting to be sworn in as American citizens, he starts a full-fledged search for his tooth before the ceremony so that he can be visited by the Tooth Fairy for the first time, and various cultures unite to assist Wei Fong in his valiant search.

Just after World War II, a little boy, David, is eagerly awaiting emigration to the United States with his family, and to make the time pass easier, another child who has already left for America gives David an old rocking horse.