"The Runaway Pea is off the plate again...and this time he's bounced right down the drain! It's cold and dark, but he's not the type who gets grum-pea. Instead, the Runaway Pea is having an amazing time splashing and sliding toward the sewer and making new acquaintances along the way! But are Duck, Fish, and Frog looking for a new friend? Or for a little green snack?"--

Escaping a girl shelling peas, a runaway pea rolls into a grand adventure as it evades a mouse, cat, rabbit, hen, pig and wolf, finally coming to rest in the perfect place where it grows into something surprising.

"It's dinnertime, and one pesky pea has decided to ping himself off the plate in search of fun. He hops, skips, and bounces across the kitchen. But the house if a perilous place, and our rogue pea might find more adventure that he bargained for!" -- Book jacket.

A little pea in a garden wants to be different from all the other peas, even though all the other peas laugh at him.

Busy little peas introduce their favorite occupations, from astronaut to zoologist.

When Shanté is sent to find black-eyed peas for her family's New Year's celebration, she learns about each of her neighbor's New Year's traditions in their home countries.

"This little pea is hungry! So hungry it swallows a sprout, slurps up some soup, munches the bread, gobbles the cake, noshes the pickle, guzzles the cheese, drinks all the tea, and even chomps down the table it’s all served on. After all that, it needs to sleep. But whose dinner did it steal? And whose mattress is the now-humungous pea resting under?"--

Although he is different in size, color, and shape, the peas like and accept their friend, Colin the carrot.

To prove her royalty, the princess must pass an impossible test: to feel a single pea under layers of mattresses! In this innovative retelling of the classic fairy tale, readers will problem-solve the princess out of her predicament! Fun activities introduce key science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts and challenge readers critical thinking. Readers will build confidence in their abilities and take interest in STEM material. Original...

Maya and other students in Ms. Garcia's class study techniques used by Thomas Jefferson as they grow pea plants and compete to see who will produce a bowl full of peas first. Includes an afterword about Jefferson.