Sunny the Yellow Fairy

Sunny the Yellow Fairy (or Saffron the Yellow Fairy) by Daisy Meadows

The yellow fair is involved with special "fairy-produced" honey. The girls find the honey and have their parents close by. Jack Frost and the goblins have more a side spot in this fairy book.

Fern the Green Fairy

Fern the Green Fairy: Rainbow Fairies Book #4 by Daisy Meadows

Fern is a rainbow fairy stuck in a tree (not a fern), The girls find her and help the fairies against jack frost.

Sky the Blue Fairy: Rainbow Magic Rainbow Fairies Book #5

Sky the Blue Fairy: Rainbow Magic Rainbow Fairies Book #5 by Daisy Meadows

Rachel and Kirsty find Sky frozen as a victim of Jack Frost. They help bring her back and restore her to health. How did this series last for so long?

Muggie Maggie

Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary

Maggie is an elementary school student in the gifted program. They have started to learn cursive in school and she wants to have nothing with it. Printing on the computer is good enough for her. She does see different types of cursive people write, but is still reluctant. When she tries writing her name in cursive, it looks likes "Muggie", leading to some teasing. The teacher enlists maggie as a messenger to carry messages to the principal and others. These messages are all written in cursive. Maggie can't resist peaking, but she can't read much other than her name. Eventually she does learn to read cursive, and the messenger activity ends. It is a simple, short book about educators that are detected to doing what is best to help a kid achieve.

Fish in a Tree

Fish in a Tree by Lynda Hunt

A sixth grader struggles in school. She acts out and gets sent to the office. She has trouble reading, and tries to hide it. She becomes friends with a couple outsiders. Eventually a teacher believes in her and helps her develop her existing skills. He later helps to diagnose her dyslexia and helps her to better read. She eventually becomes class president, beating the "mean girl" that had been teasing everyone else. The example if her bravery helped to inspire her older brother to also get treated for dyslexia. The characters seemed pretty typical. The mean girl briefly was exposed as suffering through demanding parents, but was still left to wallow in her misery as her "friends" eventually abandoned her..

The Wild Robot Escapes

The Wild Robot has been "fixed" and sent out to work as a farm robot. However, she has a secret. Her memories of living in the wild with her adoptive gosling son are still present and she wants to go back. On the farm, she works hard to complete her tasks and help the farmer after the death of his wife. She also tells plenty of stories about the "wild robot" to the children. She would like to escape to live on her island, but doesn't want to abandon the farm.

She continues to use her "speaking to animals" skills. She helps chase off wolves. She also talks with the cows and other animals. She further tells various geese about her son. One day she has an exciting reunion with the son. The kids overhear and help plan for her escape from the farm. There are a few close calls as she moves away. However, she scares some people in the city and gets brought to the robot factory. She makes a show of destroying her, but in actuality, she transports her brain to a new body and brings her back to the island where she lives happily ever after.

Is this a parable of race relations with the end goal of sending the former slaves back to Liberia? Or perhaps it is just exploring a future of how robots will live with humans. The robots in the story are clearly second class citizens. However, they have become more and more engrained in the daily lives of humans. People need the robots. As the robots are becoming more sentient, should we start expanding the rights that we give them? Do we allow them to make mistakes? There are plenty of ethical and societal implications.

Fuzzy Mud

Fuzzy Mud intersperses the story of a few kids with that of senate hearings about a renewable "biolene" fuel. At first it is unclear how they two are related. However, the stories gradually converge. A girl and a boy always walk home together. The boy is usually picked on by a bully. One day they try to walk through the woods in hopes of avoiding the bully. However, the bully is there, and they attempt to attack him by throwing some fuzzy mud. This ends up causing quite the situation. The "mud" attacks the body and creates a significant rash. The girl tries to fight the rash, but it continues to grow. She is later scared when the bully does not return to school. She cares for him as a person, even after all the problems he has caused. She tries to help him get medical attention - even sacrificing her perfect attendance. Her moves did more than that, possibly even saving the human race from a great catastrophe. In the process, the kids grow and begin to understand each other better. We also get a cautionary tale of the dangers of bioengineering. The fuzzy mud was caused from a "miracle" fuel source. However, mutations can happen that can cause it to grow out of hand and became something harmful to humans. They were lucky that it was discovered before it spread to areas that would not contain it. What would have happen if it was not contained and was able to spread and mutate freely?