Margaret McNamara

Mrs. Connor's first-graders watch as caterpllars slowly turn into butterflies in the butterfly garden at Robin Hill School.

Fairies Sylva Bell and Poppy Flower are overjoyed when they find Queen Mab's old dollhouse, but as the two friends play with it, they start to unlock its secrets and discover its special magic--a magic that has a history of putting friendships to the test.

Nia loves snow, but when her wish for a snow day comes true she finds herself missing Robin Hill School.

When first-grader Jamie has a Halloween party that includes a haunted house, Hannah is nervous to enter until Jamie volunteers to go too and explain everything to her.

When Emma learns that her class picture will be taken while she must wear an eye patch, she is sad because she will look different from the other first-graders.

On George Washington's seventh birthday, he does chores, misbehaves, and dreams of a day when his birthday will be celebrated by all.

Sophia Spencer has loved bugs ever since a butterfly landed on her shoulder--and wouldn't leave!--at a butterfly conservancy when she was only two-and-a-half years old. In preschool and kindergarten, Sophia was thrilled to share what she knew about grasshoppers (her very favorite insects), as well as ants and fireflies . . . but by first grade, not everyone shared her enthusiasm. Some students bullied her, and Sophia stopped talking about bugs altogether....