Bandon Public Library

A mother and her young daughter reflect on the daughter's growing up, including her infancy, potty training, first words, and starting school, noting how nothing has been what the mother expected

The first day of school can be scary enough as it is without a bully stealing your lunch! And that's just what happens to poor George when he runs into Big Mike, the sixth-grade bully, on the walk to school. Every day George is tormented-not to mention hungry-and too afraid to tell anyone, until his good friend Harriet steps in and helps George give Big Mike a taste of his own medicine.

Harriet learns the hard way that sharing her Halloween candy makes her feel much better than eating it all herself.

Patrick has difficulty sitting still until his mother comes up with a plan to help him.

When Henry and his first-grade classmates notice a heart-shaped box on their teacher's desk the day before Valentine's Day, they try to find out if he has a girlfriend