Yuma Public Library

In her own words, a young girl describes her feelings about starting kindergarten and what she does when she decides not to ride the bus home.

"Ride along to school with the #1 New York Times best-selling Little Blue Truck and meet Blue's new friend: a bright yellow school bus. Beep-beep! Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are excited to meet a bright yellow school bus on the road. They see all the little animals lined up in the school bus's many windows, and Blue wishes he could be a school bus too. What a fun job--but much too big for a little pickup like Blue. Or is it? When somebody...

Pete the cat's school day is recounted in this twist on the classic song.

Lulu is ready to go to school, but she cannot find her shoes. All of the bugs in the neighborhood look for her shoes. Where will they be found?

Braden is not looking forward to explaining a failed test to his parents, but when the afternoon school bus stops he finds himself at a cemetery that is crowded with zombie-like figures pushing him toward an open grave, and it looks like he may have reached his final destination.

"A young boy steps out of a thunderstorm and onto a strange bus. Like a flash of lightning, his long-gone grandmother suddenly appears on the bus too! Is she there to offer him a gift . . . or a warning? The boy is in for a shocking surprise. " --Amazon.

While hurrying to get on the school bus, Arthur and his friend unknowingly switch their lunch boxes; later Arthur finds out what surpise his sister had put into hers.