Jim's anxieties on his first day of school are happily forgotten when he makes a new friend.

When he and some other first graders get lost in the museum, Jim decides to be brave and go find the teacher.

The team is mad at Jacob. He thinks its Honey's fault and says something terrible to her. Now even his best friend Gregory won't talk to Jacob.

Impatient to begin reading, a first-grader doesn't realize that there is more to reading than books.

"Ever morning when Mommy goes to work, I kiss her goodbye. Daddy stays home with me, and we do everything together!"--Page [4] of cover.

The first graders learn to accept the new boy, who is blind, as just like themselves.

At an end-of-the-year beach picnic, Anna Maria, Jim, and the other children realize they will miss First Grade and their teacher, but decide they are ready for Second Grade after all.

A first grader learns to accept himself as he is.

Describes the experiences of two sisters growing up in Brooklyn in the time of Shirley Temple movies and trolleys.