Charise Mericle Harper

Meet third-grader Grace Stewart, who gets stuck with the name "Just Grace" when she tries to distinguish herself from the three other Graces in her class. Grace is plenty different, though. She has a "teeny-tiny superpower," for instance-she can tell if someone is unhappy and often tries to fix it. But sometimes her good intentions backfire... Join Just Grace as she deals with a missing cat, a new neighbor, and more in this delightfully funny three-book...

"Sometimes school can be scary and even embarrassing, but not today. Today is Birdie's birthday, and everything will be perfect! Birdie's panda-riffic cupcakes are beautiful, and there's one for everyone. She will be the star of the class. But then...disaster! A trip and fall on the way to school means no more cupcakes! Who can save the day? Who can make the class smile again? This is a job for Birdie's alter ego...the amazing crafty cat! After a...

"The book cannot draw a bicycle, but the horse really wants a bicycle. Will horse's wheely dreams come true--or will they end in pieces?" -- Provided by publisher.

The narrator turns a "nothing shape" into a cat, beaver, bunny, dog, turtle, and bear, but what the cat really wants is a horse.

Best friends Randolph, a beaver, and Ivy, a goose, do everything together until Ivy is invited to a girls-only birthday sleepover party and Randolph, full of bad feelings, tries to spoil her fun.

"Pepper, Boo, and the Cat celebrate a special day with big and small things, cat and dog things, as well as inside and outside things"--

As Grace and her classmates study foods from other cultures, she has the opportunity to ponder such mysteries as whether Owen 1 is really bad or not, why she feels jealous when her father helps her best friend with her hot dog report, and how Augustine Dupre, her family's French boarder, can be so wise.

Eight-year-old Grace is excited to learn that her best friend, Mimi, is going to become an older sister, but when both try to be "mother's helpers" for a family renting a house on their street, little Lily likes Grace best, causing Mimi to doubt herself and Grace to form a plan to fix things.

Although disappointed at not being chosen to be the flower girl in her best adult friend's wedding, third-grader Grace plans a special surprise for the big day.

When a bossy classmate tries to take over second-grader Birdie's crafting day-camp, the little girl's alter ego, Crafty Cat, saves the day. Presented in comic book format.