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A boy named giotto

Guarnieri, Paolo

Dreams really do come true for Giotto, a young shepard boy, who is mindless of his chores and duties because of his strong passion and talent for painting. Although he loses a sheep, Giotto's curiosity and persistence lead him to find someone who can unlock the door to his artistic future.

A day in the life of a dentist

Adamson, Heather

Dr. Fong provides readers with an outline of what she does in her job as a dentist. Starting at the beginning of her day, Dr. Fong describes the various articles of clothing that she and the other office staff wears. This includes office managers and hygienists, who help the dentist when she cares for her patients. After eating her lunch, Dr. Fong demonstrates various techniques, including x-ray imaging and models, that she uses to visualize a patient's mouth. Finally, Dr. Fong shows the tools she uses when examining a patient and describes the importance of visiting dentists, like her, regularly!

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appearance, careers, critical thinking, dentist, education, hard work, helping, history, hygiene, nonverbal communication, responsibilities, role model, routine, teamwork, teeth, tools, verbal communication, work

A day's work

Bunting, Eve

Fransico takes his grandfather out to look for work. His grandfather does not speak English, so Fransico must translate. Fransico accepts a gardening job for his grandfather by telling the man he is a great gardener. When the man comes at the end of the day, he finds the job done incorrectly. Fransico's lie teaches him an invaluable lesson.

A different pond

Phi, Bao

A young boy accompanies his dad to catch fish for food before the sunrises and before other family members awake. The dad tells the bait man at the all-night store that he is starting a second job. The boy meets a Hmong man and a black man who are also fishing -- but this time, it is just the boy and his dad under the starlit sky. The boy learns to make a fire and to bait his hook and to honor the stories of his Dad as he explains how life was in Vietnam when he was a boy. When they return home, the dad and mom head to work while the boy looks after his brothers and sisters.

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african american, author's note, bicycle, bodies of water, counting, feelings, fire, fishing, food, hard work, hmong, illustrator's note, language, learning, loss, morning, multicultural, photograph, pond, poverty, refugee, responsibilities, sadness, siblings, sleep, storytelling, teeth, tree, vietnamese, war, work

A fish in his pocket

Cazet, Denys

On his way to school, Russell drops his math book in the pond. The teacher finds a fish in it when she opens it. Russell worries all day long about what to do with the fish. He finally comes up with a solution in art class.

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bodies of water, books, conflict resolution, death, fish, nonverbal communication, pond, problem solving, responsibilities, school, verbal communication

A good morning's work

Zimelman, Nathan

When Mitsuo hoes his garden, he finds rare things in nature which he tries not to harm. All the while, his dad makes sure he's working.

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asian, beauty, critical thinking, decision making, family, garden, hard work, multicultural, nature, nonverbal communication, parents, plants, responsibilities, sight, sun, verbal communication

A tale of stolen time

Schwartz, Evgeny

Peter is a lazy boy that never does his homework. He soon falls behind all the other students. Peter always thinks he will have time to catch up. Until one day, he becomes an old man.

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aging, change, critical thinking, decision making, growing up, laziness, refusal skills, responsibilities, school, stress management

A visit to the country

Johnson, Herschel

A young boy named Mike lives with his grandparents near the train tracks. One day he finds a bird and takes it home. However, he realizes that the bird must be let go so it can live in the country.

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animals, birds, cardinal, cow, decision making, family, freedom, grandparents, rescue, responsibilities, stress management, train, transportation

Alejandro's gift

Albert, Richard

A lonely man plants a garden full of vegetables in the middle of the desert. A wide array of desert wildlife finds their way to his garden and watering hole. He wants to be friends with the animals and help them.

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animals, author's note, badger, birds, cactus, caring, coyote, critical thinking, deer, desert, donkey, dove, feelings, fox, friendship, garden, habitat, hummingbird, loneliness, mouse, plants, presents, rabbit, rat, responsibilities, shelter, skunk, sparrow, squirrel, tortoise, vegetables, wildlife, woodpecker, wren

Alice and aldo

Lester, Alison

During their day, Alice and Aldo work their way through the alphabet. They do all kinds of fun things like quacking with the ducks, making milkshakes, and swinging over the flowers. By the end of the day Alice and Aldo are ready for bed.

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alphabet, animals, art, cat, clothing, counting, dancing, duck, family, flowers, food, helping, horse, numbers, nutrition, parents, play, pretend, rabbit, responsibilities, sequence, sleep, telephone, water, whale

All alone after school

Stanek, Muriel

Josh learns how to take care of himself after school when his mother takes a new job and cannot afford a babysitter. Josh learns how to be confident while he's alone by knowing important phone numbers, always keeping the door locked and staying away from the stove. After his mother gives him a lucky charm, Josh learns to overcome his fear of being alone after school.

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change, goal setting, growing up, learning, responsibilities, stress management, trust, working mother

All ready for winter

Adelson, Leone

How do animals get ready for winter? Is it different from how children get ready for winter?

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animals, conflict resolution, critical thinking, differences, food, preparation, responsibilities, seasons, similarities, winter

Always in trouble

Demas, Corinne

Emma's dog ,Toby, always seems to be in trouble. When Emma gives him more attention, he still gets into trouble. At dog training school, he is the best dog and receives a diploma after all the classes, but he still gets into trouble. So Emma takes him back to the school, and leaves Toby with the teacher for a week. When he comes back, Toby seems like the perfect dog, but Emma soon finds out, no dog is perfect.

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animals, attention, critical thinking, Days of The Week, decision making, dog, family, feelings, frustration, goal setting, misbehavior, obedience, pets, responsibilities, sequence, stress management, verbal communication

An anteater named arthur

Waber, Bernard

An anteater named Arthur learns that he can overcome certain problems with the help of his mother. Arthur learns to eat right, clean, and become a responsible anteater.

April's kittens

Newberry, Clare Turlay

April owns a cat who gives birth to three kittens. There is not room for all four of them, so April must give away three. She gives away two kittens and her family decides to keep the other two.

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animals, birth, cat, decision making, giving, nonverbal communication, pets, responsibilities

Arthur babysits

Brown, Marc

Arthur is asked to babysit for the Tibble twins who are a challenge. Once he finally gets the twins under control, he likes the job.

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courage, family, ghosts, goal setting, responsibilities, siblings, stress management, success

Arthur's pet business

Brown, Marc

Arthur's parents say he may have a puppy if he proves that he is responsible. Arthur decides to get a job pet sitting a neighbor's dog and eventually many pets. Finally when the neighbor comes home, she finds her dog and new puppies. She pays Arthur ten dollars and gives him one of the new puppies to care for himself.

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animals, birth, conflict resolution, decision making, dog, goal setting, neighbors, peer resistance, pets, responsibilities, stress management, verbal communication

Aunt minnie mcgranahan

Prigger, Mary Skillings

Aunt Minnie McGranahan lives alone and has a very orderly life. She has a system for doing everything from cleaning to feeding her animals. One day, Minnie receives a telegram from across the country telling her that her nieces and nephews need someone to raise them and take care of them. Despite her neighbors' doubts that nine children could never fit into her perfectly ordered schedule, Minnie and the children work as a team and live together quite nicely.

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animals, car, cat, chicken, cleanliness, correspondence, cow, critical thinking, dancing, discipline, family, farm, food, garden, horse, music, nutrition, orphan, play, problem solving, responsibilities, rules, sequence, sewing, siblings, stress management, teamwork, train, transportation, travel

Autumn story

Barklem, Jill

A little mouse, Primrose, goes berry picking all by herself. Soon, it begins to get dark and she cannot find her way home. Her parents are worried and go looking for her. When they find Primrose, they take her home to her comfy bed.

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animals, conflict resolution, family, food, lost, mouse, nutrition, responsibilities

Baby danced the polka

Beaumont, Karen

While mom and dad are trying to do the chores, baby is supposed to be sleeping. However, baby canﾒt sleep and is dancing with the farm animals.

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animals, assertiveness, chores, conflict resolution, cow, dancing, exercise, family, farm, goat, parents, pig, play, responsibilities, sheep, verbal communication

Baby-o

Carlstrom, Nancy White

As an Indonesian extended family prepares for a trip to the market, the preparation and responsibilities of the family members are explained. We see the family and their goods on a bus during their journey through the hills to the market. The family completes a successful day at the market and returns home.

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baby, bus, cooperation, family, food, goal setting, grandparents, indonesian, multicultural, nutrition, parents, preparation, responsibilities, siblings, transportation, travel

Becky and the bear

Van Woerkom, Dorothy

Becky's father and brother go hunting for some food while she stays at home with Granny. Becky wishes she was old enough to go hunting and be brave. When Granny has to leave, Becky is left behind to finish some chores and is chased by a large bear.

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animals, assertiveness, bear, bravery, conflict resolution, decision making, family, food, grandparents, nutrition, parents, recreation, responsibilities, self esteem, siblings, verbal communication

Bedtime for frances

Hoban, Russell

It's France's bedtime but she isn't very tired, so she makes up an alphabet song, imagines a tiger, sees a giant, and learns that the wind has a job before she falls asleep.

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animals, badger, bedtime, family, food, giants, hygiene, night, nutrition, responsibilities, sleep

Ben and the bear

Riddell, Chris

When a young boy encounters a harmless playful bear, the two become best friends. They go back to Ben's house and eat lunch, dance, and clean up their mess. Then the bear goes home and tells the boy that they will have lunch at his house the next day.

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animals, bear, cleanliness, conflict resolution, dancing, decision making, exercise, food, friendship, helping, imagination, nonverbal communication, nutrition, play, responsibilities, verbal communication

Bert and susie's messy tale

Erskine, Jim

Bert, a little boy pig, is sent by his mother to take her chrysanthemums to the flower show. Bert is distracted and plays in the mud. When he gets to the show he breaks the flowers. His mom sends him home with the flowers.

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competition, coping, disobedience, family, parents, peer resistance, plants, refusal skills, responsibilities

Big surprise in the bug tank

Horowitz, Ruth

Leo and his brother love their two giant pet cockroaches given to them by their mother. After the two cockroaches have babies, the boys try many different solutions to try to get rid of them. They finally find a solution after they receive help from their mom and local library.

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bug, chores, community, critical thinking, decision making, family, goal setting, insects, library, math, numbers, parents, pets, responsibilities, sexuality, siblings, stress management, verbal communication

Billy Twitters and his blue whale problem

Barnett, Mac

When Billy Twitters doesn't brush his teeth or finish his peas, his mother says we are going to buy you a whale. This does not worry Billy, because he knows how large blue whales are and he couldn't possibly have one delivered. To his surprise, one morning there is a blue whale sitting outside his house, and it is his responsibility. The whale causes problems at school because Billy's classmates pick him at gym. And it just gets worse: his parents give him the owner's manual for the whale. While feeding him, Billy realizes that when he's inside the whale, nobody's laughing and nobody's telling him what to do...so he decides to make himself at home!

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animals, bridge, bus, cleanliness, colors, community, comparisons, critical thinking, decision making, dinosaur, feelings, five senses, food, frustration, history, hygiene, language, loneliness, numbers, parents, park, perspective, problem solving, responsibilities, school, sight, sizes, smell, teeth, time, transportation, whale

Bird, fly high.

Horacek, Petr

As the bird flies, flaps, hops, pecks, and tugs; she fetches food. For the bird and her little ones, it is breakfast time.

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birds, caring, decision making, determination, exercise, family, food, goal setting, hopping, nature, nutrition, parents, responsibilities, shelter, verbal communication, worm

Birdie's lighthouse

Hopkinson, Deborah

Ten year-old Bertha, daughter of a lighthouse keeper, receives a diary for her birthday. She records significant family events such as their relocation to rugged Turtle Island and the time when her brother went to sea for a long time.

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author's note, birds, birthday, boat, bodies of water, bravery, calendar, careers, challenges, change, courage, diary, family, fishing, fog, growing up, hard work, helping, heroism, island, light, moving, ocean, recreation, responsibilities, sea, seagull, seal, ship, storytelling, stress management, transportation, verbal communication, weather, writing

Black and white

Macaulay, David

This story contains four separate stories. There is a train, a boy and his parents, commuters waiting for the train, and Holstien cows. All the stories are related to one another

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animals, assertiveness, cow, family, imagination, nonverbal communication, parents, responsibilities, train, transportation, travel

Born in the gravy

Cazet, Denys

Margouita starts her first day of kindergarten. She tells papa all about her big day over an ice cream cone. She has one question that papa knows just how to answer.

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food, friendship, mexican, nutrition, racism, responsibilities, school, self esteem, song, stress management, verbal communication

Breakfast time, ernest and celestine

Vincent, Gabrielle

When Celestine, a mouse, breaks a cup, her bear friend Ernest offers to help her clean up the mess. But Celestine thinks that is is her responsibility.

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animals, assertiveness, bear, conflict resolution, decision making, family, food, mouse, nutrition, parents, responsibilities, verbal communication

Bright fawn and me

Leech, Jay//Spencer, Zane

Bright Fawn is a young Indian girl who is left in the care of her older sister. Bright Fawn's sister is upset at this, but learns to appreciate her younger sister. The tribe trades, dances, and plays games.

Camper of the week

Schwartz, Amy

Rosie is the camper of the week and refuses to be a part of a prank. The other campers are caught and disciplined, and even though she did not do it, she admits to it to help her friends from being more severely punished.

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camping, decision making, disobedience, friendship, play, recreation, responsibilities, sharing

Clara and the bookwagon

Levinson, Nancy Smiler

Clara lives on a farm and does not have time to go to school, but she wants to learn to read. Eventually the Bookwagon (a mobile library) comes to her farm and the librarian convinces her father to let her borrow books and she learns to read.

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assertiveness, books, conflict resolution, cooperation, decision making, determination, family, farm, goal setting, learning, parents, reading, responsibilities, self esteem, verbal communication

Clarice Bean: That's me

Child, Lauren

A girl named Clarice is part of a typical modern family. She really wants peace and quiet but she has a peculiar sister who wears make-up and reads about boys and she has two brothers who hate and love being with her. Eventually, Clarice gets in big trouble and is sent to her room. At last! Peace and quiet.

Clean your room, harvey moon!

Cummings, Pat

Harvey Moon's room is a mess. His mother makes him clean it up all day on Saturday and he must miss his favorite television shows. Although he was upset he had to clean, he feels a sense of accomplishment in the end.

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accomplishment, conflict resolution, decision making, family, feelings, goal setting, nonverbal communication, parents, responsibilities, stress management, verbal communication

Clive eats alligators

Lester, Alison

This book depicts several children's daily routines and each has a different favorite activity, food, work, etc.

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differences, food, individuality, nutrition, reptiles, responsibilities

Cotton mill town

Hershey, Kathleen

A little girl tells about her visit with her grandma. She wishes she too could live in the cotton mill town. She tells of all the things they do until it is time for her to return home. She enjoys picking berries and peaches, gardening, and fishing.

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bodies of water, books, family, fishing, food, garden, generations, grandparents, morning, nutrition, overeating, recreation, responsibilities, self esteem, sleep, travel, woods

Cowboy small

Lenski, Lois

Cowboy Small takes care of his horse Cactus and rides him around the ranch. He does jobs like fixing the fence and rounding up the cows.

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animals, bedtime, careers, cow, cowboys, critical thinking, decision making, food, nutrition, ranch, responsibilities, sleep, stress management, verbal communication, water

Crictor

Ungerer, Tom

Madam Bodot was given a pet snake for her birthday and she named it Crictor. She treated Crictor like her child. She fed him and took him everywhere with her. Crictor becomes the heroic snake of the town when he saves Madam Bodot.

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assertiveness, birthday, community, conflict resolution, heroism, pets, presents, reptiles, responsibilities, snake

Daisy comes home

Brett, Jan

Daisy is one of six hens and is the outcast. After being pushed out of the henhouse, she takes a ride along the river. She meets various animals and instinctively uses her coping skills to survive. She returns home and uses those newly found skills and is no longer bullied by the rest of the hens.

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animals, assertiveness, behavior, boat, bodies of water, buffalo, bully, careers, caring, chicken, china, conflict resolution, coping, dog, feelings, fishing, happiness, market, monkey, multicultural, pets, refusal skills, responsibilities, river, sadness, self esteem, transportation

Daisy's taxi

Young, Ruth

Daisy ferries to and from the island all day in her water taxi. Throughout the day, Daisy takes passengers and their valuables to the island and back to shore no matter what kind of weather. After a long day, Daisy wants to go for a row with her husband.

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assertiveness, careers, critical thinking, decision making, dedication, family, goal setting, helping, island, responsibilities, self esteem, stress management, transportation, verbal communication, weather

Dirty dave

Hilton, Nette

An outlaw family is well dressed by the father who is a tailor. The community learns to accept the family.

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acceptance, assertiveness, careers, clothing, community, conflict resolution, family, parents, responsibilities, verbal communication

Don't forget the bacon

Hutchins, Pat

A boy is sent to the store for bacon and other items. As the boy walks to the store, he repeats over and over what he is supposed to get. He becomes thoroughly confused and forgets about the bacon. Once he gets home, he is sent back to the store for the bacon.

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confusion, food, forgetful, helping, nutrition, responsibilities, self esteem, shopping

Down dairy farm road

Martin, CLG

After making veterinary rounds with her grandfather, Junie Mae realizes that money and curly hair are not the most important thing in life when she sees how her grandfather is paid in food.

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acceptance, animals, careers, community, doctor, farm, food, grandparents, history, learning, neighbors, nutrition, pets, responsibilities, understanding

Down down the mountain

Creedle, Ellis

Hetty and Hank want shoes, but there are no stores in the mountain and Pappy says they have no money. So Granny gives them an idea how to raise the money. They grow some turnips to take down the mountain. On the way they find most of the turnips away, but still have a happy ending.

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assertiveness, clothing, conflict resolution, family, food, goal setting, grandparents, poverty, responsibilities, sharing, teamwork, verbal communication

Down the road

Schertle, Alice

Hetty has the chance to prove she is a big girl when her parents send her to Mr. Birdie's store to buy a dozen eggs. Hetty is very careful not to break the eggs until she reaches the apple tree.

Dragon's fat cat

Pilkey, Dav

Dragon helps a stray cat warm up from the snowy outside night. Dragon names the cat and tries to take care of him. Realizing that he does not know how to care for a cat, he goes to the pet store and asks for help.

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animals, cat, conflict resolution, decision making, dragons, food, learning, night, nutrition, pets, responsibilities, snow, verbal communication, weather

Earth day - hooray!

Murphy, Stuart J.

Ryan, Carly, and Luke set out to clean up Gilroy Park for an Earth Day celebration. They decide to plant flowers to beautify the park while collecting cans to raise money through recycling. The children use math and find school resources to help them with their project.

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