Arthur challenges Francine to a game of kickball to prove to her that a person does not have to be a great athlete to be important to the team.

Arthur and his friends can hardly wait for the latest Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club book to arrive at the library, but when they find the popular series has been banned, they decide they have to take action to get their books back.

When Arthur's soccer team gets a new coach who gives them brand new uniforms and lots of ice cream, it takes them a while to realize that he doesn't know how to coach soccer.

Tells of the science of snow and ice.

Contains three previously published stories about the adventures of Arthur the aardvark.

Describes the Japanese attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, resulting in the deaths of more than 2,000 American officers and servicemen.

A young child describes in rhyme what it's like to have a loose tooth.

When Sue Ellen loses her diary, all her friends fear she wrote embarrassing things about them and hope to be the first to find it.

When a boy moves with his family to a bigger castle, he finds that some things about life in the new place are different, some things are the same, and he gets more comfortable the longer he is there.

Celebrates a toddler's increasing knowledge of the world, such as that rocks are heavy and flowers are light.