by Kathryn Lasky illustrated by Marylin Hafner
Clyde is going to start school. He's ready to learn how to read and ready to learn how to write, but he's not ready for school lunch! Will he be able to balance the tray? And will anyone want to sit with him in the cafeteria? His older brother; Jefferson, is full of stories about the lunch ladies and the school lunch menu: "You better hope they don't have mystery goosh, it's horrible!" Lunch is beginning to sound worse and worse.
What happens on Clyde's first day of school when it really is time for lunch makes a funny, telling picture book about the joys of overcoming one's fears and mastering a new situation and of making a new friend in the process.