"When it comes to parenting, sometimes you have to trust your gut. With her first book, It's OK Not to Share, Heather Shumaker overturned all the conventional rules of parenting with her "renegade rules" for raising competent and compassionate kids. In It's Ok To Go Up the Slide, Shumaker takes on new hot-button issues with renegade rules such as: Recess is a right ; It's OK not to kiss Grandma ; Don't force participation ; Safety second ; Ban homework...

A fearful second grader in Concord, Massachusetts, learns about death when his grandfather's best friend passes away and he offers to accompany his grandfather to the funeral.

Celebrates the feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.

"A young basketball player receives inspiration from a surprising place and joins [a] competition ready to try his best"--

Unsure about her artistic skills, second-grader Yasmin is not looking forward to the art competition at school--but with the support and encouragement of her family she produces a prize-winning painting.

Lizzie meets an elderly man and his companion Cecile at the park, but Lizzie's afraid of dogs, so she relies on her new friend to help her take things one step at a time.