ACARA Years 3-6
— A girl visits the family's summer cottage while her father is at war, discovering she can feel joy even amid sadness when her brother lifts her over the waves.
— A frog on a lily pad becomes a graceful dancer, tensing and leaping through rain to catch her dinner with a flick of her tongue.
— A girl rushes through homework to spend thirty minutes by a lake, feeding ducks and contemplating the vast sky and her future.
— A girl anxiously waits by the phone for news of her mother giving birth, then meets her new baby brother Zachary at the hospital.
— A thirteen-year-old who has hidden her love of animals since childhood finally reveals her secret when she volunteers at an animal shelter and falls for a kitten named Cinnamon.
— A girl moves to Iceland after her parents die, discovers her grandmother once lived there, and finds comfort in a special doll her grandmother arranged for her to receive.
— A young enslaved girl and her mother escape to freedom after Rachel is sold to a slave trader, running through woods and hiding in safe houses along the Underground Railroad.
— A seventh grader sneaks out at midnight to her childhood faerie circle and witnesses real faeries dancing under the full moon, who spell her name in daisies and leave her...
— A girl's beloved neighborhood market closes, teaching her through the owner's wisdom about accepting change while cherishing memories.
— During a Boy Scout hike in California, two boys spot a forest fire and must lead their troop in a desperate race to reach a ranger station before the flames...