Fran Manushkin

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

Pedro runs for class president against his friend Katie Woo.

On a hike with the Super Scouts, Katie is paired up with a girl she does not know who seems much better at scouting then Katie is, but eventually Katie finds that she has discovered a new friend.

Pedro forms a new club with his friends dedicated to solving mysteries--and the first two assignments are finding his mother's locket, and his father's cell phone.

Katie is enrolled in a gymnastics class, but when she has trouble doing some of the moves she gets discouraged and considers dropping out.

Katie is sad when she is cast as an earthworm in her school play, because that means she cannot be the star.

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.

When Katie is chosen to take the class pet, Binky the guinea pig, home for the weekend, she runs into a problem.

Katie wants to be helpful, and so she starts making dinner on her own.

Pedro would love to be the goalie in the team's first game, but another boy is bigger--so all his friends come over to help him practice before the tryout.