A nervous Splat finds his first day at Cat School much better than he expected.

After being homeschooled her whole life, Heidi Heckelbeck enters a real school in second grade, where she encounters a mean girl named Melanie who makes her feel like an alien.

A young child imagines going off to Kindergarten as a journey to another planet.

Lola meets new friends and tries many new things on her fun but exhausting first day of school.

Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.

Ten days before the start of kindergarten, a preschooler cannot tie her shoes by herself and fears the worst.

"A transgender boy prepares for the first day of school and introduces himself to his family and friends for the first time"--

Tally Tuttle, a shy, new-in-town second-grader, magically transforms into a turtle on the first day of school, and in order to transform back to herself she must learn how to come out of her shell both literally and figuratively. Includes ten fun facts about painted turtles. "It's Tally Tuttle's first day of second grade, and she's so nervous that she feels like she ate butterflies for breakfast! On top of moving to a new town and new school where...

Concerned about losing friends during the first week of school, Unicorn upgrades his fabulousness.

A young girl feels out of place on her first day of school in a new country until she discovers that it only takes one friend to make her new surroundings feel like home.