Stéphanie Roth Sisson

As a child, Rachel Carson lived by the rhythms of the natural world. Spring after spring, year after year, she observed how all living things are connected. And as an adult, Rachel watched and listened as the natural world she loved so much began to fall silent. Spring After Spring traces Rachel's journey as scientist and writer, courageously speaking truth to an often hostile world through her book, and ultimately paving the way for the modern environmental...

Posey is excited that Gramps and her neighbor, Mrs. Romero, are getting married until she hears that Mrs. Romero and her dog, Hero, will move away.

Contains the first three books in the Princess Posey series, in which, six-year-old Posey starts first grade, finds the prefect present for her teacher, and finds the courage to visit the large dog next door.

For first-grader Posey, every school day is great until her teacher's birthday, when her best friend's gift of an enormous bouquet puts Posey's few, home-grown roses to shame.

A stray kitten turns out to be the perfect way to help Rana make friends in her new school and to feel more comfortable with her grandparents, who are visiting from India while her parents are away.

"Posey gets in trouble when she makes up a not-so-nice song about one of the boys in her class"--

Posey wants desperately to wear her pink tutu to her first day of first grade, but the rules say she can't. When she runs into her new teacher in a store, Posey tells her about wanting to wear her tutu to school and that gives the teacher a really good idea.

Forced to work with the class bully on a project to design a new breakfast cereal, Richard also tries to stop him from picking on second-graders by using tarantula power.

Nick describes what happened when he went to the optometrist to get glasses.

When her friend Rana goes to India, Susan volunteers to take care of her cat and her sister's fish, but the job turns out to be much more difficult than she expected.