Two puzzling / by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater --
Ode to blue jeans / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich --
Roller coaster / by Joan Bransfield Graham --
Basketball seasons / by John Sullivan --
The tale of fig newton / by Sandra Gilbert Brüg --
The Ferris wheel / by Elizabeth Upton --
Take the escalator / by Katherine O'Connell George --
Brushes rule / by Constance Andrea Keremes --
Inside the box / by Ann Whitford Paul --
What to do with a popsicle / by Lee Bennett Hopkins --
Band-aid / by J. Patrick Lewis --
The signal's lament / by Alice Schertle --
"In here, Kitty Kitty" / by Marilyn Singer --
Velcro / by Maria Fleming --
In new running shoes / by Fran Haraway --