Even good friends can sometimes disagree. Just as Simon is ready to pour the muffin batter into a pan, Annie insists that it needs a little something extra. Grumble, grumble. Annie is tickled to be visiting a few favorite items from her baby hood, but Simon tells her she's way too old to be walking around with a pacifier her mouth. Harrumph! But when Theo from nest door loses his favorite toy, Annie and Simon-together with their dog, Hazel-prove once...

Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fiancé is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and it...

Gertie is the littlest yak, feeling stuck in her smallness--she wants to grow UP and have bigness and tallness. But when it turns out that there are some things that only Gertie can do, might she come to see that she's perfect, just the way she is? A rollicking, rhyming, heartwarming and reassuring story from debut author, Lu Fraser and much-loved illustrator, Kate Hindley.