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Adam draws himself a dragon

Korschunow, Irina

A young dragon comes to stay with Adam for a while and they help each other overcome the problems that make their school days unhappy.

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acceptance, assertiveness, body image, conflict resolution, differences, dragons, feelings, goal setting, insecurity, mythical, overweight, peer resistance, problem solving, sadness, self esteem

Across the wide dark sea: The mayflower journey

Van Leeuwen, Jean

A young boy and his family leave England with many other people to search for a new life in a new land. They dream of finding a place where they can worship God in their own way. During their journey, everyone endures many hardships, but they find what they are looking for.

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animals, assertiveness, author's note, autumn, birds, boat, bodies of water, cat, death, dog, english, family, fear, feelings, food, garden, goal setting, god, happiness, illness, multicultural, native american, nonverbal communication, nutrition, ocean, parents, pilgrims, religion, seasons, self esteem, siblings, snow, spring, storm, transportation, travel, verbal communication, weather, wind, winter

Abiyoyo

Seeger, Pete

A little boy and his father are banished from town. The little boy is banished because he plays his ukelele all the time and his father is banished because of his magic and his storytelling about the monster Abiyoyo. When the monster comes to terrorize the town, the boy puts it to sleep with his ukelele music and then his father makes the giant disappear with his magic. They are welcomed back into the town.

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acceptance, assertiveness, community, courage, critical thinking, decision making, magic, monsters, multicultural, music, patience, peer resistance, refusal skills, storytelling

A worm's tale

Lindgren, Barbro

Arthur is a lonely man who accidently steps on a worm one day. Arthur adopts the worm and they become good friends.

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adoption, assertiveness, decision making, feelings, friendship, happiness, loneliness, self esteem, worm

A woggle of witches

Adams, Adrienne

A small group of witches prepare for their favorite night of the year, Halloween. The witches become frightened of the children that are dressed up in costumes.

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assertiveness, clothing, conflict resolution, decision making, differences, fear, feelings, halloween, holidays, night, self esteem, witches

A web in the grass

Freschet, Bernice

A lonely spider spins a web in order to catch some food. The spider is careful not to be caught by a toad or an owl. She lays an egg sac and hundreds of spiderlings are produced. The babies, like their mother, spin webs and wait to capture food.

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amphibians, assertiveness, birds, birth, conflict resolution, food, insects, loneliness, nature, nonverbal communication, reproduction, spider

A village full of valentines

Stevenson, James

Every animal living in various villages celebrates Valentine's Day in a different way. All the animals learn how to appreciate the many ways to celebrate this fun holiday.

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acceptance, animals, appreciation, assertiveness, communication, conflict resolution, cooperation, creativity, differences, diversity, friendship, holidays, love, valentine's day, verbal communication

A tree is nice

Udry, Janice May

We can appreciate and enjoy a tree in many ways. People can play in trees whereas animals use trees for food and shelter. Would you like to learn how to plant a tree?

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animals, appreciation, assertiveness, critical thinking, goal setting, nature, nonverbal communication, plants, play, recreation, stress management, verbal communication

A tree is a plant

Bulla, Robert Clyde

Trees are the biggest growing plants; they come in a variety, and most grow from seeds. The seeds are planted, and stay in the ground throughout winter. They begin to grow during Spring time, and blossom for only a few days. When Autumn comes, the leaves die and fall to the ground, leaving trees bare, then the process repeats itself.

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assertiveness, author's note, autumn, critical thinking, food, ice, nonverbal communication, nutrition, plants, rain, rainbow, science, seasons, seed, snow, spring, summer, tree, water, weather

A sweetheart for valentine

Balian, Lorna

A town finds a baby girl that they decide to adopt. They name the baby Valentine. They think Valentine is a normal little girl, but she grows and grows into a giant. When she's older, no one wants to marry her until one day another giant wanders through town.

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adoption, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, giants, growing up, holidays, loneliness, orphan, peer resistance, self esteem, valentine's day, verbal communication, wedding

A sweet smell of roses

Johnson, Angela

One morning, after a night of rain, Minnie and her sister sneak out of the house to join many men and women to march for freedom and equality. When they arrive at the beginning of the march, the girls walk with many others keeping their eyes straight ahead and their feet steady. Despite the criticism and yells from people standing by, the girls continue to march. As the day passes, more people join the march to where Dr. Martin Luther King gives his famous speech about peace, love, and equality for all.

A starlit somersault downhill

Willard, Nancy

Friendship is very important to this little rabbit who wants to nap with his bear friend. Unfortunately for the rabbit, he learns he cannot rest as long and as peacefully as the bear can. He learns that he is meant to be free doing somersaults downhill in the snow.

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animals, anticipation, assertiveness, bear, birds, critical thinking, decision making, feelings, friendship, happiness, nature, nonverbal communication, owl, rabbit, sadness, seasons, sleep, winter

A song for ba

Yee, Paul

A young, ambitious boy spends a lot of time with his grandfather learning how to sing and follow in the footsteps of his father who travels with a Chinese opera troupe. Wei, the little boy, loves to go to the opera and watch his father perform hoping one day, he too, will be a star. Through difficult times and financial loss, a young boy comes to the rescue of both his father and his cultural background.

A shot for baby bear

Corey, Dorothy

A baby bear is aftaid of getting a shot. His brother serves as a model so that baby bear is no longer afraid.

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animals, assertiveness, bear, conflict resolution, decision making, doctor, family, fear, illness, role model, self esteem, siblings, verbal communication

A rose, a bridge, and wild black horse

Zolotow, C.

A small boy describes all the marvelous things he will do for his sister when he is grown up, such as bringing her coral from the bottom of the sea and building her the biggest bridge in the world.

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assertiveness, critical thinking, decision making, family, goal setting, growing up, imagination, presents, self esteem, siblings, verbal communication

A ride on the red mare's back

Le Guin, Ursula K.

A young boy is taken by trolls and his older sister tries to find him with the help of her magic wooden horse. The red mare comes to life and they rescue her brother from the troll's high mountain.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, determination, family, helping, horse, imagination, lost, magic, mythical, robbery, siblings, trolls

A regular rolling noah

Lyon, George Ella

A young boy is hired to be a helping hand with the farm animals during a move. On a train, he tells of his travels from Kentucky to Canada.

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animals, assertiveness, careers, cow, discovery, farm, horse, moving, self esteem, storytelling, train, transportation, travel, verbal communication

A new improved Santa

Wolff, Patricia

Santa is determined to become a new and improved Santa. He changes his hair, loses weight, and changes his clothing style. The children are not happy with his changes; they want the old Santa back.

A new coat for anna

Ziefert, Harriet

Anna needs a new winter coat, so her mother trades her valuables in order to get Anna a new coat.

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assertiveness, clothing, conflict resolution, decision making, family, goal setting, parents, poverty, winter

A negro league scrapbook

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Through the use of photographs, narrations, and an inspiring poem, the history of African Americans in baseball unfolds. The struggles and triumphs they have experienced in the past have helped to establish the sport that we know today.

A moose is not a mouse

Berson, Harold

A mouse lives in fear of the cat. It is not until he sees a picture of a moose that he thinks that when he grows up he will be bigger than the cat. As it happens, the mouse's mother tells him that a mouse is not a moose.

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ambition, animals, assertiveness, beliefs, cat, confusion, decision making, goal setting, growing up, imagination, misunderstanding, moose, mouse, peer resistance, self esteem

A monster too many

McNeill, Janet

Two boys stop fighting long enough to save a monster from the pond in the park.

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assertiveness, conflict resolution, fear, feelings, fight, helping, monsters, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

A million fish...more or less

McKissack, Patricia C.

Hugh Thomas lives in a place where weird things happen and people spin tales. Elder Abbajon and Papa-Daddy tell Hugh Thomas a tale about Bayou Clapateaux. On the way home from fishing, Hugh Thomas makes up his own spin tale.

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african american, animals, assertiveness, birds, careers, cat, creole, crow, family, fish, fishing, friendship, grandparents, imagination, multicultural, numbers, raccoon, recreation, storytelling, turkey, verbal communication

A long way to go

Oneal, Zibby

During World War I in Europe, a girl named Lisa struggles because she feels that girls also deserve the right to vote. She is determined to prove this to others.

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assertiveness, beliefs, bias, critical thinking, discrimination, gender, history, nonverbal communication, parade, prejudice, self confidence, self esteem, verbal communication, war

A is for Africa

Owoo, Ifr

The country of Africa is explored from A to Z. Africa has a rich culture, many customs, and hardworking people that have lasted throughout history.

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african, alphabet, assertiveness, customs, equality, food, freedom, multicultural, nutrition

A hanukkah treasury

Kimmel, Eric

Hanukkah is to me the time for lighting the menorah, spinning the dreidel, and remembering heros from the past. Poetry, music, and recipes help keep the Hanukkah tradition alive!

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acceptance, accomplishment, adventures, ambition, american, animals, anticipation, appreciation, assertiveness, beliefs, bias, bravery, celebration, ceremony, challenges, change, charity, closeness, communication, conflict, conflict resolution, cooking, courage, critical thinking, culture, customs, decision making, destruction, determination, discrimination, elephant, family, feelings, folktale, food, freedom, games, goal setting, god, grandparents, grief, hanukkah, happiness, hebrew, heroism, history, holidays, hope, immigrants, independence, individuality, israelian, Jewish, kindness, language, love, loyalty, memories, miracle, moose, moving, multicultural, music, parents, peace, pilgrims, poetry, polish, politics, poverty, prayer, prejudice, presents, racism, religion, russian, sadness, secrets, siblings, snow, song, spiritual, storytelling, toys, traditions, war, weather

A frog prince

Berenzy, Alix

This is a life lesson concerning love is in the eyes of the beholder. This story show how love turned a common frog into a prince.

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amphibians, assertiveness, beauty, body image, conflict resolution, decision making, fable, fantasy, frog, goal setting, love, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, refusal skills, self esteem, verbal communication

A christmas story

Wildsmith, Brian

The traditional Christmas story is told through the eyes of a young girl and her donkey. They try to find Mary and Joseph and follow their trip to Bethlehelm.

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animals, assertiveness, christmas, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, donkey, history, holidays, lost, spiritual, storytelling, traditions, travel

A christmas story

Chalmers, Mary

A little girl and her animal friends get ready for Christmas by putting up a tree. They have to go looking for a star for the top of the tree because they do not have one.

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animals, assertiveness, christmas, conflict resolution, decision making, friendship, holidays, nonverbal communication, plants, traditions, verbal communication

A carp for kimiko

Kroll, Virginia

Kimiko is a young Japanese girl who desperately wants a carp kite to fly on Children's Day. But only boys are allowed to have these kites, and Kimiko questions this rule.

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assertiveness, bias, family, feelings, frustration, gender, japanese, kite, multicultural, parents, rules, siblings, verbal communication

A cane in her hand

Litchfield, Ada B.

Valerie, a young girl, has poor eyesight. She needs to use a cane to walk around. She eventually learns to use the cane and not feel bad about it.

A button in her ear

Litchfield, Ada B.

Angela Perkins sturggles to hear others, so her parents take her to the doctor for an examination. She must wear a hearing aid. Her friends think she is special and she enjoys wearing the hearing aid.

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acceptance, assertiveness, conflict resolution, doctor, family, feelings, five senses, friendship, frustration, handicap, hearing, nonverbal communication, self esteem, sounds

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 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 band of angels: A story inspired by the jubilee singers

Hopkinson, Deborah

A young girl listens to a story told by her aunt. Her story is about the young girl's great great grandmother and how she used her voice and dedication to fight for her education after the slaves were freed. The story was also tells how a group of singers toured and sang slave songs. They were trying to save their school, but ended up creating a university.

A apple pie

Greenaway, Kate

This alphabet book discusses several actions that are done with an apple pie (e.g., I jumped for it).

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alphabet, assertiveness, food, nutrition, sequence, verbal communication

"Not me!" said the monkey

West, Colin

A monkey is a trouble-maker because he keeps bothering the other animals in the jungle. He is constantly saying that he didn't do anything wrong, but he is found out in the end.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, deception, jungle, mischief, monkey, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, refusal skills, verbal communication

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