Since entering fourth grade, Benny Barrows worries that he will never be good at anything, that he is responsible for an accident that sent his father to the hospital, and that his attempts at winning a school contest will never be noticed.

An interactive picture book in which readers help the Book Crew -- a ghost, skeleton, and vampire-- fix various problems that get in the way of Halloween night fun.

Emily Pearl is good at very many things, and is the first with an offer to help her teacher, but when the school day ends and her father is late picking her up, she finds she needs a little help, too.

When the first-graders' bee antennae would not stay on their heads and the drummers would not stay in their seats for the open house play, Roscoe decides to help by using the "don't-you-dare" glue.

When Beaver suffers from the sun without his hat, Squirrel is hungry, and Bear is thirsty, Little Duck is quick to help and to give his friends what they need from what he has, until he finds himself alone and needing help.

A hungry giant wants to eat Jack for a snack but is waylaid by other children who need his help.

In winter Charles and his trusty toboggan set out to find the wish tree, and along the way he helps to make the wishes of his friends Squirrel, Fox, and Beaver come true.

When the old draft horse Chester falls in the snow on Christmas Eve, Ernest and Chester's other animal friends need a great deal of determination to help him get up again.

A neighborhood comes together to help a kitten without a home.

Every night when Sonia goes to bed, Mami asks her the same question: How did you help today? And since Sonia wants to help her community, just like her Mami does, she always makes sure she has a good answer to Mami's question. In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers...