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A bargain for frances

Hoban, Russell

Frances saves money to buy a real china tea pot. Thelma swindles Frances out of her money and buys the tea pot. Frances then tricks Thelma out of the tea pot and they are friends again.

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animals, assertiveness, awareness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, deception, friendship, goal setting, honesty, play, refusal skills, self esteem, verbal communication

A boy went out to gather pears

Hoffmann, Felix

A boy goes out to get some pears, but they would not fall so he waits. The owner of the tree must stop the boy from picking his pears.

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conflict resolution, consequences, critical thinking, decision making, determination, food, listening, nutrition, refusal skills

Bathwater's hot

Hughes, Shirley

A little girl discovers opposites in the world around her. She discovers the difference between hot and cold water and many other things in her world.

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cleanliness, comparisons, conflict resolution, decision making, feelings, five senses, friendship, hygiene, learning, nonverbal communication, refusal skills, touch

Ella's big chance: A jazz-age Cinderella

Hughes, Shirley

This version of the Cinderella story takes place in a dressmakers shop. Mr. Cinders and his daughter Ella run the shop. Ellaﾒs father remarries a wicked woman, and she and her daughters take over the household. A ball is announced and Ella desperately wants to go. Her fairy godmother sends her in a beautiful gown and the duke falls in love with her. Ella, however, denies the Duke and admits her love for Buttons, who has helped her and her father in the shop.

Three-star billy

Hutchins, Pat

Billy is a little monster who does not want to go to school. At school, he receives stars. At the end of the day, he does not want to go home.

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assertiveness, decision making, disobedience, family, friendship, monsters, nonverbal communication, parents, peer resistance, refusal skills, school, verbal communication

The mud family

James, Betsy

Susi and her family are in desperate need of rain to save their corn and land. If it does not rain soon Susi and her family will have to move to a different place. Susi runs away to a secluded place and prays to her mud family to bring rain to the canyon. Eventually, the rain does come bringing Susi back to the family that needs her most of all.

Dear mr. blueberry

James, Simon

Emily writes her teacher letters about a whale that is in her backyard pool. Her teacher tells and educates her that whales can't live in her pool. However, she has a great imagination and keeps trying to tell him.

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animals, assertiveness, correspondence, excitement, feelings, imagination, learning, letters, nonverbal communication, refusal skills, sadness, teaching, verbal communication, whale

Almost gone

Jenkins, Steve

All living things are related in some way. The reality of human destruction, and its impact on the survival of animals are key components to the extinction of many animals in our environment. As each species disappears, the world as we know it, forever is changed. Will the little bird who visits your morning windowsill be next?

Night noises and other mole and troll stories

Johnston, Tony

A series of several short stories about two friends - a troll and a mole -that describe several adventures they go through together from losing a tooth to being afraid of the dark.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, fear, feelings, friendship, helping, mole, mythical, night, noise, refusal skills, self esteem, sounds, teeth, trolls

The teeth that looked for a new mouth

Jones, Jill

Luke refuses to brush his teeth despite his Mom's warnings about sugar bugs coming to eat his teeth. That night, Luke has a dream that his teeth try to find another mouth to live in because they are tired of being dirty with food stuck between them. In a startling end, Luke wakes from his dream and quickly goes to brush his teeth, promising that he will brush at least twice a day in order to maintain a healthy smile and happy teeth!

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animals, anticipation, bacteria, bedtime, behavior, body parts, cleanliness, consequences, destruction, fear, germs, goal setting, hygiene, refusal skills, routine, teeth, verbal communication

The duchess bakes a cake

Kahl, Virginia

The Dutchess of Vingdom with many children is tired of her daily duties, so she bakes a cake. As she pushs the cook out of the kitchen saying she needs no help, disaster strikes. After making a mess and starting a fire the dutchess decides to stick to her usual routine

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assertiveness, change, family, food, nutrition, overweight, refusal skills, responsibilities, royalty

Goggles!

Keats, Ezra Jack

Archie and Peter find a yellow pair of motorcycle glasses. Then some big boys come along and try to take them. Willie, their dog, takes the goggles and runs. After hiding out, they eventually regroup and make it back to their house.

Peter's chair

Keats, Ezra Jack

Peter has a new baby sister. He is upset because his crib, chair, and other furniture have been painted pink. Peter runs away and becomes very frightened to be by himself. When his mom calls him home, he is very happy and tells his father that he wants to paint his favorite chair pink for his little sister.

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assertiveness, baby, change, conflict resolution, coping, critical thinking, decision making, family, fear, feelings, happiness, jealousy, loneliness, nonverbal communication, parents, refusal skills, running away, siblings

Geraldine's blanket

Keller, Holly

Geraldine the pig does not want to give up her blanket. So when she gets a doll for Christmas, she makes a dress out of her blanket so she can take it with her.

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animals, christmas, clothing, conflict resolution, creativity, dolls, family, growing up, holidays, parents, pig, refusal skills, security, verbal communication

Best friends

Kellogg, Steven

Kathy and Louise are best friends but Louise goes to the mountains for the summer. Kathy is mad because Louise is having a great summer without her. When Louise comes back, they both get a puppy to raise together.

The mystery of eatum hall

Kelly, John//Ticknell, Cathy

Dr. Hunter invites Horace and Glenda Pork-fowler over to his house, Eatum Hall, for a weekend of gourmet food. They come over and realize Dr. Hunter won't be joining them until Sunday, so they eat and eat all weekend. In their cluelessness, they don't realize Dr. Hunter is a wolf.

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animals, art, correspondence, decision making, exercise, food, goose, humor, mystery, overeating, overweight, pig, refusal skills, surprises, survival, swimming, trick, wolf

Sleepers

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

A young girl will not go to sleep. She knows that people sleep other places and proceeds to go through them all. By the time she finishes, she is asleep herself.

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animals, assertiveness, bedtime, creativity, goal setting, refusal skills, self esteem, shelter, sleep, verbal communication

Simon's soup

Komoda, Beverly

Simon, the cat, prepares soup for dinner for his monkey friends, but he keeps getting interrupted during his preparations.

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animals, cat, conflict resolution, coping, food, friendship, goal setting, monkey, preparation, refusal skills, stress management, teamwork

Owliver

Kraus, Robert

Owliver's mother and father expect him to be different things when he grows up. The little owl makes up his mind to be a firefighter, something neither of his parents thought of.

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birds, careers, critical thinking, decision making, family, goal setting, growing up, owl, parents, refusal skills, verbal communication

Dangerous crossing

Krensky, Stephen

Showing no signs of fear, young Johnny Adams boards a ship with his father, the future second President of the United States, for a voyage from Massachusetts to Paris to gain support for the colonies. Their journey is depicted with vivid pictures and an exciting storyline portraying the battles, harsh weather and seasickness endured along the way by two key Presidents in U.S. history.

Joey and the birthday present

Kumin, Maxine W.//Sexton, Anne

Joey is a mouse who lives on a farm. He meets a city mouse who is a boy's pet, and they become good friends. They play and do things together until the city mouse has to leave.

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animals, cat, conflict resolution, critical thinking, dog, family, grandparents, mouse, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, pets, refusal skills, self esteem, stress management, summer, taste, verbal communication, water

The rich man and the shoemaker

La Fontaine

A poor, old, but happy shoemaker sings all day long to keep his rich neighbor from sleeping. A rich man gives the shoemaker a bag of gold to keep quiet. The gold causes him to worry constantly and the shoemaker loses all his friends. The shoemaker realizes he is unhappy, returns the gold, and decides to go back to making shoes and friends.

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assertiveness, careers, change, clothing, coping, decision making, feelings, friendship, greed, happiness, money, neighbors, poverty, refusal skills, shoes, singing, sleep

Audrey and barbara

Lawson, Janet

Audrey has big ideas for herself and her cat, Barbara. She wants to cross the ocean in her bathtub sailboat to visit the Taj-Mahal and ride on an elephant. But will her imagination take her all the way to India?

The story of ferdinand

Leaf, Munro

Ferdinand is a bull who likes to smell flowers and be by himself. He grows up and is chosen to be in the bull fights. He enters the ring and sits down to sniff the flowers.

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animals, assertiveness, bull, conflict resolution, cow, fight, five senses, growing up, jumping, nonverbal communication, plants, refusal skills, running, self esteem, smell, verbal communication

The red piano

Leblanc-Barroux, Andre

A young pianist is sent to a re-education camp in China. She lives for her secretive two hours of music after a long day's work. Her parents managed to send a piano to Mother Han's house and she manages to smuggle music in notebooks. One night the pianist is caught at the piano, forcing her to live through an extended-re-education while her love and talent for music are challenged.

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.

Not the piano, mrs. medley

Levine, Evan

A grandmother and grandson go the beach together. The grandmother against her grandson's wishes, deems it necessary to bring just about everything -- just in case. Finally when they end up at the beach, they realize that they have everything except their bathing suits.

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beach, bodies of water, clothing, decision making, disobedience, family, grandparents, patience, preparation, recreation, refusal skills

The tomten and the fox

Lindgren, Astrid

Reynard is a hungry fox who goes to a farm to steal food. There he meets a tomten who shares his food with Reynard.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, farm, fox, giving, hunger, mythical, ox, peer resistance, prevention, refusal skills, sharing, trolls, unselfish, verbal communication

Frederick's fables

Lionni, Leo

Many animals go through several adventures. Some of them learn lessons, solve conflicts, and make discoveries.

Geraldine, the music mouse

Lionni, Leo

Geraldine the mouse finds a large chunk of cheese. She gnaws the cheese into a statue that plays music. She then learns that she has music in her too.

Making room for uncle joe

Litchfield, Ada B.

Uncle Joe has Down Syndrome and must leave his home at the hospital because it's closing. He goes to live with his sister and her family. His family learns to live with him and to love him.

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acceptance, down syndrome, love, nonverbal communication, parents, patience, peer resistance, refusal skills, self esteem, siblings, stereotypes, stress management, teaching, verbal communication

The dwarf giant

Lobel, Anita

A Japenese prince and princess come upon a dwarf who enchants the prince and makes him do foolish things. The prince finds a clever way of disenchanting the prince.

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asian, boredom, critical thinking, decision making, dwarfs, evil, games, japanese, multicultural, mythical, peer resistance, refusal skills, royalty, verbal communication, wish

Owl at home

Lobel, Arnold

This book contains five stories about Owl and his daily adventures - from inviting winter in to sit by the fire to thinking sad thoughts to make tear-water tea.

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assertiveness, birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, fear, feelings, goal setting, nature, nonverbal communication, owl, problem solving, refusal skills, sadness, seasons, verbal communication

Grasshopper on the road

Lobel, Arnold

A grasshopper travels down a long road and meets different insects and sees their homes. He meets beetles, a worm, butterflies, a housefly and some dragonflies.

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assertiveness, critical thinking, curiosity, differences, insects, refusal skills, shelter

Giant john

Lobel, Arnold

Giant John and his mother are very poor. Giant John leaves the enchanted forest to find a job. He comes across a castle and works for the royal family. Later, John returns with money just in time, before his mother is so desperate she must eat her shoe.

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conflict resolution, decision making, dedication, family, goal setting, hard work, hunger, parents, poverty, refusal skills, royalty

Frog and toad together

Lobel, Arnold

Frog and Toad are two friends that have many adventures together, including after baking cookies, trying not to eat the whole batch.

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adventures, amphibians, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, food, friendship, frog, goal setting, nonverbal communication, nutrition, peer resistance, refusal skills, self esteem, stress management, toad, verbal communication

Frog and toad are friends

Lobel, Arnold

The friendship and adventures of frog and toad unfold with many activities that strengthen their relationship.

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adventures, amphibians, assertiveness, conflict resolution, creativity, critical thinking, decision making, friendship, frog, nonverbal communication, refusal skills, self esteem, toad, verbal communication

A weekend in the country

Lorenz, Lee

A bunch of farm animals take a weekend trip form the city to the country to learn about country life.

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animals, community, critical thinking, decision making, farm, friendship, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, refusal skills, teamwork, travel

The three little javelinas

Lowell, Susan

Cousins of pigs (known as javelinas) attempt a daring rescue from the hungry coyote. The angry coyote huffs and puffs to blow the house down of the first and second javelinas--but not the third!The hungry coyote has a sizzling surprise in the adobe house where the three little javelinas live happily ever after.

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animals, author's note, coyote, critical thinking, decision making, desert, escape, family, language, multicultural, native american, refusal skills, resolution, siblings, spanish, teamwork, trick, unselfish

The star counters

Luttrell, Ida

A king thinks that the stars in the sky are made of gold. He believes they all belong to him. He counts them every night to make sure that none are missing. When he gets tired of this, he tries to find an animal to count them for him.

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animals, assertiveness, bodies of water, conflict resolution, counting, cow, feelings, fox, moods, nonverbal communication, numbers, pond, refusal skills, royalty, seasons, sky, spring, stars, turtle, verbal communication

Baby, come out!

Manushkin, Fran

Mrs. Tracy is pregnant and the baby does not want to come out. Everyone tries to tell the baby why she should come out. The baby does not want to come out until her Daddy says just the right thing.

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anticipation, baby, birth, conflict resolution, decision making, family, feelings, happiness, parents, pregnancy, refusal skills, self esteem, verbal communication

Wish again, big bear

Margolis, Richard J.

As big bear catches a fish to eat, the fish says he will grant him three wishes if bear does not eat him. On his third wish, the bear wishes for a friend, then realizes the fish is his friend and he cannot eat him.

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animals, bear, conflict resolution, decision making, feelings, fish, food, friendship, magic, nutrition, refusal skills, self esteem, verbal communication

Miss flora mcfimsey's christmas eve

Mariana.

Miss Flora was an old doll lost in the attic who got a wish to return to the tree on Christmas Eve. She receives a new dress and she wins the hearts of the children.

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angel, christmas, dolls, holidays, mouse, nonverbal communication, plants, refusal skills, santa, stress management

Fox at school

Marshall, Edward

Fox learns important lessons from his friends on how to be a friend. For example, he learns how not to be greedy and how not to be too proud.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, feelings, fox, friendship, goal setting, greed, learning, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, pride, refusal skills, school, self esteem, stress management, verbal communication

George and martha back in town

Marshall, James

A series of stories about seven hippos who are best friends. The story depicts the trials and tribulations of their friendship.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, coping, critical thinking, curiosity, decision making, friendship, goal setting, hippopotamus, honesty, peer resistance, refusal skills, verbal communication

Yummers!

Marshall, James

Emily, the pig, decides she needs to lose weight. She takes a walk then eats everything in sight. Eugene Turtle suggests that walking is a good way for losing weight.

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animals, assertiveness, body image, conflict resolution, exercise, food, friendship, goal setting, hunger, nutrition, overeating, pig, recreation, refusal skills, reptiles, stress management, turtle, walking, weight loss

Now I will never leave the dinner table

Martin, Jane Read//Marx, Patricia

Patty Jane's older sister Joy is perfect in everyway. She even likes to prepare and eat spinach. Patty Jane, however, refuses to eat spinach. Joy will not let Patty Jane leave the table until she eats a bite of spinach. In protest, Patty Jane plots how to make Joy leave the house.

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aggression, anger, assertiveness, conflict resolution, family, feelings, food, forgiveness, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, persistence, preparation, refusal skills, siblings

Jump frog jump

Martin, Patricia Miles

Two young children enter their newly found frog into a jumping contest. They train the frog to jump, but the frog decided he did not want to jump that day.

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amphibians, assertiveness, competition, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, exercise, family, frog, goal setting, jumping, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, refusal skills, self esteem, siblings, stress management, verbal communication

How sitali learned a lesson

Mashiri, Pascal

As the oldest in his family Sitali is supposed to hunt and provide for his younger sisters. He learns a lesson about self-control and hard work after being made chief and then losing it all.

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african, african american, apathy, conflict resolution, critical thinking, family, folktale, laziness, multicultural, obedience, parents, peer resistance, refusal skills, responsibilities, river, siblings, storytelling, village

The village in the valley of darkness

Mashiri, Pascal

I want to see my people in the village. It is no fun to search alone. At last, I can see the light.ﾔ During my travel, a dog at my side with brother and I. People in the village are thankful and at peace!

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