Miriam Cohen

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

The first graders get tired of Anna Maria's bossy ways during the Thanksgiving preparations.

Even though he doesn't like his part in the first grade play, Jimmy saves the performance when one of the key players gets stage fright.

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.

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

Although George's classmates are well aware that he is not the smartest student in the first grade, they are proud to know him when his fast action in an emergency saves an elderly friend's life.

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

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

Four stories about Mimmy, who is six, and her four-year-old sister Sophie; their momma, poppa, and grandparents, who emigrated from Russia; and their Brooklyn neighborhood during the Depression.

Jacob feels sad and alone. He wishes he could take back what he called Honey. But mean words can stick to a person. Will anyone ever be Jacob's friend again?