A Story About Learning to Listen. Freddie the Fly likes to talk and talk. He's so busy buzzing about the latest gossip, he can't listen to anyone else. Freddie doesn't realize how much of a chatterbox he is until he meets Mesquita. Her mile-a-minute mouth makes Freddie seem like a mute. Appropriate for readers in pre-k to third-grade, this colorful storybook teaches kids how to control their conversations and be excited about listening to, and learning from, others.

Freddie returns with quite the conundrum! He keeps missing social cues, so he misunderstands what people mean, and then he finds himself in a mess. He just doesn't get that there's a lot more to communication than the words that people say. Fortunately for our favorite fly, he has his dad and Principal Roachford available to teach him avout connecting the communication dots, including voice tone, facial expressions and body language.

Freddie the Fly’s friend Stella the Stinkbug has a problem. Or lots of problems. Some problems are big, and some are small. But every time she faces a problem, she reacts the same way. She Bugs out. And you know what happens when a stink bug bugs out? It causes a Big Stink! With help from Mrs. Monarch, Stella and Freddie learn about different kinds of problems: Big problems, Meh problems, and No Bigs. Each problem has an appropriate reaction. Mrs. Monarch teaches Stella and Freddie two important questions to ask themselves, and then the problem solving can begin! Follow along as Freddie and Stella learn to control their reactions to different problems, and to keep small problems small so they can be easily solved.

Miss Brilliant's class puts on a performance of "Mary had a little lamb."

Born of a white father and an Indian mother, Saylah knows the bounty of the earth and sea and the secret wisdom of her people. But when tragedy strikes her loved ones, Saylah is forced to stay with her English-born relatives in the Pacific Northwest. Saylah discovers love, but she must resolve the conflicts of her heritage--and follow her destiny.

A fictional re-creation of a day in the life of a Rainbow character named Sunflower begins the book, illustrating events that might typically occur at an annual North American Rainbow Gathering. Using interviews with Rainbows, content analysis of media reports, participant observation, and scrutiny of government documents relating to the group, Niman presents a complex picture of the Family and its relationship to mainstream culture - called "Babylon" by the Rainbows. Niman also looks at internal contradictions within the Family and examines members' problematic relationship with Native Americans, whose culture and spiritual beliefs they have appropriated.