Jamie Harper

It's no ordinary day in Miss Mingo's classroom: it's the 100th day of school! Everyone has prepared 100th Day projects. There are many ways to get to the number 100, and the students in Miss Mingo's class demonstrate all kinds of combinations: ten sets of ten, two sets of fifty, five sets of twenty, and more. With animal facts peppered in among the festivities, every creature in class has a chance to show off their knowledge and discover something...

"Field trip! It's early April, and Miss Mingo's class is hiking up to the local observatory to learn about weather. Alligator's mother is along for the day, and a new student, Groundhog, joins Hippo, Panda, Frog, and the others on what they hope will be a "perfect weather" day. But weather can be changeable as the quirky critters from Miss Mingo's room find out all too soon."--Dust jacket.

Miss Mingo helps all of the animal students in her class overcome their shyness on the first day of school by encouraging them to share something special about themselves. Includes facts about animals.

All of the animals in the class face their fear of danger and practice wholeheartedly what their teacher Miss Mingo and the fire fighter Chief Grizzly teach them to do in a fire drill with excellent results. Includes a brief description of the defense mechanisms that animals use to protect themselves from danger.

Eight-year-old EllRay's father has promised a family trip to Disneyland if EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, but not defending himself against Jared, the class bully, proves to be a real challenge.

Third-grader Emma's peaceful life as an only child is disrupted when she has to temporarily share her tidy bedroom with four-year-old Anthony Scarpetto, a bona fide "pain in the patootie."

When a new girl joins her third-grade class just before Thanksgiving, Emma thinks only about gaining her friendship before the popular Cynthia can, and hurts her best friend Annie Pat's feelings in the process.