Spike the dinosaur finds challenges at Halloween when he tries to decide on a costume and when he helps his brother make a jack-o'-lantern.

Ms. Frizzle's class learns about light and color while racing in the Color Day relays.

"A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents...