Henry Carter Hull

Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

First grade does not go very well for Velma, whose older sisters were practically perfect students, until her class takes a trip to a butterfly conservatory and a monarch butterfly demands to be her friend.

Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.

A mouse named Wemberly, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school.

The kids in Room 207 take advantage of their teacher's good nature until she disappears and they are faced with a vile substitute.

Samantha is determined to help nine-year-old Nellie, attending school for the first time, with her school work and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory.

The students in Mrs. Madoff's class keep track of the days they have been in school, marking each interval of ten, until they reach 100 days.

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

Little Critter discovers that the new boy in class is really not so different from anyone else, even though he is in a wheelchair.

A retired teacher reminisces about his years at Brookfield School, the thousands of boys he had known, and his happy marriage.