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An enchanted hair tale

De Veaux, Alexis

Sudan had unruly hair. Everyone made fun of him for it. He found a place to be himself with people who were like him. He began to appreciate his differences.

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acceptance, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, differences, multicultural, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, prejudice, self esteem, stress management, understanding, verbal communication

Randolph was a possum who could not hang upside down like everyone else. He cheats by using sticky sap on his tail, but the sap dries up in the winter. His pesky sister lends a hand and he finally can hang like the rest of the possums.

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acceptance, animals, conflict resolution, critical thinking, family, goal setting, helping, learning, opossum, practice, self esteem, siblings, stress management, verbal communication

Boys are awful

McGinley, Phyllis

Annabelle and Lucy are best friends. Annabelle tells Lucy how awful boys are for all sorts of reasons, but she goes off with a boy at the end.

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acceptance, assertiveness, conflict resolution, confusion, critical thinking, decision making, friendship, gender, nonverbal communication, peer resistance

Grandma's wheelchair

Henriod, Lorraine

Thomas, a four year old, spends his mornings helping his grandma who is in a wheelchair.

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acceptance, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, family, grandparents, handicap, helping, illness, self esteem

Jenny and the tennis nut

Schulman, Janet

A father wants his daughter to be a tennis player. She would rather do gymnastics in the yard. Finally her father realizes that she should do what she is interested in and allows her to take gymnastics lessons.

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acceptance, assertiveness, critical thinking, decision making, exercise, family, goal setting, gymnastics, parents, recreation, refusal skills, self esteem, sports

The tiny visitor

de Mejo, Oscar

Gwen and her sister, Elizabeth, help find a tiny wife for their equally tiny friend, Sir Theodore.

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acceptance, critical thinking, decision making, differences, family, helping, marriage, self esteem, siblings, verbal communication

Looking for atlantis

Thompson, Colin

A young child learns about life by looking at it the way his grandfather did. He learns about himself at the same time.

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acceptance, critical thinking, death, feelings, grandparents, learning, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, sadness, stress management, verbal communication

If i built a village

Mizumura, Kazue

The narrator of this story speculates about the going's on in several different imaginary villages. At the conclusion of the story, the narrator realizes that people will care about any village and fill it with love.

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acceptance, critical thinking, curiosity, goal setting, imagination, love, verbal communication

Appelemando's dreams

Polacco, Patricia

Appelemando's dreams color the town. The adults do not appreciate the significance of his dreams until he uses his power to save the children.

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acceptance, appreciation, colors, community, conflict resolution, creativity, critical thinking, decision making, dreams, friendship, imagination, individuality, safety, self esteem, sleep

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

I won't go without a father

Stanek, Muriel

Steve refuses to go to Open House night at school because he thinks his classmates will make fun of him for not having a dad. Steve is pleasantly surprised to find he is not alone.

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acceptance, coping, critical thinking, differences, family, fear, feelings, friendship, neighbors, parents, school, separation, working mother

The rag coat

Mills, Lauren

Minna wants to go to school but she has no coat. Her mother and friends make her a coat out of clothing scraps. Minna wears it to school and the kids make fun of her until she tells them the stories behind each of the clothing scraps.

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acceptance, assertiveness, clothing, coping, critical thinking, death, differences, friendship, poverty, school, self esteem, storytelling, understanding, verbal communication

The backyard

Collier, John

A flashback through time of the exciting past of a child's backyard. The child's imagination runs wild as he visualizes the various turns of the changing land and the people which were effected.

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acceptance, change, critical thinking, dreams, forest, growing up, history, mountains, nature, ocean, parents, sea, verbal communication, vision

The tenth good thing about barney

Viorst, Judith

A young boy copes with the death of his cat by remembering what he loved about it.

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acceptance, cat, critical thinking, loss, memories, sadness, stress management, verbal communication

Grandma drives a motor bed

Hamm, Diane Johnston

Josh's grandmother has to stay in a motorized bed because her legs don't work. Josh enjoys visiting her because she is very lively and as active as she can be.

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acceptance, body image, caring, challenges, coping, critical thinking, family, grandparents, handicap, helping, illness, perspective, self esteem

It happened in pinsk

Yorinks, A.

Irv Irving is not happy with his life. He wants fame and fortune. One day, Irv loses his identity and everyone mistakes him for someone else. After he finally retrieves his identity, he realizes what he has and becomes content.

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acceptance, assertiveness, boredom, change, conflict resolution, critical thinking, fame, feelings, fortune, frustration, individuality, jealousy, mistake, misunderstanding, refusal skills, uniqueness, verbal communication

Tico and the golden wings

Lionni, Leo

Tico, a bird, is born without wings. When he receives a golden pair of wings after wishing for them, he is not accepted by the other birds. After he gives his golden feathers away, he is accepted by his fellow birds.

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acceptance, assertiveness, bias, birds, change, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, peer resistance, self esteem, stereotypes, uniqueness

The blue faience hippopotamus

Grant, Joan Marshall

A hippopotamus falls in love with an Egyptian princess. He finds a magician who turns him into a statue. The princess discovers the statue and there is a surprise ending.

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acceptance, animals, assertiveness, baby, change, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, egyptian, fable, feelings, hippopotamus, love, magic, multicultural, stress management, surprises, verbal communication, wish

Mousekin's golden house

Miller, Edna

A little mouse finds a jack-o-lantern in the woods and gives it a home. It protects him from predators and the cold air.

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acceptance, animals, assertiveness, autumn, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, friendship, halloween, holidays, mouse, nature, nonverbal communication, protection, refusal skills, safety, seasons, self esteem, woods

A porcupine named fluffy

Lester, Helen

A young porcupine named Fluffy is unhappy with his name and tries to change himself until he meets a rhino named Hippo.

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acceptance, animals, body image, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, friendship, nonverbal communication, porcupine, rhinoceros, self esteem, verbal communication

Gemma and the baby chick

Barber, Antonia

Gemma is a very caring young child. She saves one of the hen's babies from dying. This child, with the help of her mother, understands that she can't keep it but must put it back into the hen's nest.

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acceptance, animals, chicken, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, goal setting, helping, kindness, learning, rescue, safety, trust, verbal communication

Mrs. brice's mice

Hoff, Syd

Mrs. Brice has twenty-five mice. The mice do everything that Mrs. Brice does. There is one very small mouse that will not work. However he saves all the mice from a vicious cat.

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acceptance, animals, cat, critical thinking, differences, fear, feelings, mouse, nonverbal communication, pets, teamwork

Mr. mcmouse

Lionni, Leo

Mr. Timothy McMouse, a city mouse, runs away to the country. He meets a group of field mice who live in a castle and tries to fit in. Timothy cannot pass the test of the country mice. When Timothy saves himself and another mouse from the cat, he is given an honorary Field Mouse License.

The cats of mrs. calamari

Stadler, John

Mrs. Calamari moves into a new apartment and the landlord tells her No cats allowed! Mrs. Calamari is not about to put her cats out on the street, she'll have to think of something. Mrs. Calamari and her cats become friends to the landlord and he accepts them.

So far from the sea

Bunting, Eve

Laura and her family are moving, so they are coming to visit the Manzanar War Relocation Center one last time. Years ago, this center was used to house anyone living in the United States that were of Japanese descent. These people were forced to leave their homes and come to the center because Japan bombed the United States. The center is bare now except for all of the memories and the cemetary, including her grandfather's grave.

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acceptance, airplane, american, anger, anticipation, assertiveness, author's note, awareness, bias, bravery, change, citizen, cold, community, conflict, confusion, critical thinking, crow, culture, death, differences, discrimination, diversity, family, fear, feelings, flowers, forgiveness, generations, ghosts, grandparents, growing up, history, illness, japanese, loss, memories, monuments, mountains, moving, prison, sea, sky, snow, survival, verbal communication, war

Mommy far, mommy near: An adoption story

Peacock, Carol Antoinette

Elizabeth is a young Chinese girl who has been adopted by an American family. Elizabeth begins to question her adoption and wonders why her mommy in China did not keep her. Elizabeth's mother explains the adoption to her and loves that she has a mother who is far away and one who is close.

Hans and Peter

Petrides, Heidrun

A teacher brings an African priest into her classroom to talk about the discovery of America.

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african, careers, critical thinking, discovery, history, learning, multicultural, school

The dinosaurs are back: And it's all your fault edward!

Hartmann, Wendy//Daly, Niki

Edward and his brother are going to bed when his brother starts talking about the rock under Edward's bed. He tries to scare Edward by telling him that it's really a dinosaur egg and that the dinosaurs are going to come back and terrorize the town. Edward's smarter than that though, and he turns the story around on his brother. Soon, his brother is too scared to sleep!

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community, critical thinking, dinosaur, fear, feelings, rocks, verbal communication

As i was crossing boston common

Farber, Norma

While a turtle is crossing the Boston Common, he sees a man with many animals. All of these uncommon animals are in alphabetical order.

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alphabet, animals, assertiveness, critical thinking, diversity, imagination, reptiles, sequence, turtle

Working wheels

Webber, H.

This picture book shows different types of objects and vehicles that use wheels.

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critical thinking, nonverbal communication, transportation

When summer ends

Fowler, Susi

A young child is sorry to see the summer end but remembers all the good things the other seasons bring.

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conflict resolution, critical thinking, seasons, summer, weather

I can read with my eyes shut

Seuss, Dr.

This book points out the importance of reading things that interest you.

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critical thinking, reading, recreation, rhyme

Iva dunnit and the big wind

Purdy, Carol

A pioneer woman named Iva Dunnit tries to save her house from the Big Wind. Her children use their wits and work with their mother to save their property from the wind storm.

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barn, conflict resolution, cooperation, critical thinking, decision making, family, farm, parents, pioneers, siblings, stress management, survival, weather, wind

How many snails?

Gigante, Paul Jr.

Learn to count the number of objects in a scene. How many snails do you see?

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counting, critical thinking, numbers, sequence

The drinking gourd

Monjo, F.N.

Tom misbehaves in church and is sent home early. He goes to play in the barn and discovers runaway slaves. He and his father help them escape and Tom learns all about freedom through the Underground Railroad.

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african american, assertiveness, bravery, church, critical thinking, decision making, escape, family, freedom, goal setting, helping, history, misbehavior, multicultural, nonverbal communication, play, slavery, underground railroad, verbal communication

An artist

Goffstein, M.B.

Goffstein depicts how an artist's work is part of him and how his work is like a creation from God.

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art, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, environment, god, individuality, nonverbal communication, self esteem

Crash!Bang!Boom!

Spier, Peter

This book depicts many things that make sounds in our world.

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critical thinking, five senses, hearing, listening, nonverbal communication, sounds

Moira's birthday

Munsch, Robert

Moira's birthday wish is to have a party with all of the kids in the school from kindergarten to sixth grade. She orders 200 pizzas and 200 birthday cakes. What will her parents do?

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birthday, celebration, chaos, cleanliness, conflict, critical thinking, family, food, friendship, goal setting, nutrition, parents, peer resistance, presents, stress management, teamwork, verbal communication, wish

The balloon race

Coerr, Eleanor

Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her to win.

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assertiveness, competition, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, nonverbal communication, parents, stress management, transportation, verbal communication

The good-luck pencil

Stanley, Diane

A magic pencil, which Mary Ann discovers by mistake, brings her more good luck than she can handle.

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critical thinking, discovery, self esteem

Piggins and the royal wedding

Yolen, Jane

A ring is stolen before a royal wedding. The only person who can crack the case is Piggins who is at his home.

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conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, goal setting, mystery, robbery, royalty, verbal communication, wedding

Little kit or the industrious flea circus girl

McCully, Emily Arnold

In hopes of a better life, a young orphan girl disguises herself as a boy and goes to work for a cruel professor and his flea circus.

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careers, circus, critical thinking, english, flea, gender, insects, loneliness, multicultural, orphan, verbal communication

From this to that

Jennison, Keith

This book describes things that change, including how a spruce tree becomes this book.

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books, change, critical thinking, growing up, plants

I'm not sleepy

Cazet, Denys

It is Alex's bedtime, but he is not tired. Alex's father tells Alex a bedtime story about a little boy's adventure to the jungle. By the end of the story, Alex is asleep in his bed.

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bedtime, critical thinking, family, goal setting, imagination, jungle, moon, parents, sleep, stars, storytelling, verbal communication

Never satisfied

Testa, Fulvio

Two boys walk around their neighborhood complaining that nothing exciting ever happens. They are unaware of the odd events going on around them.

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adventures, awareness, boredom, critical thinking, disappointment, neighbors, nonverbal communication, play, refusal skills, verbal communication

Who came down that road?

Lyon, George Ella

A boy and his mother walk down a road. The boy is curious about the history of the road.

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animals, critical thinking, curiosity, family, history, learning, parents, travel, verbal communication

Small rabbit

Miles, Miska

A rabbit goes out to play all by himself for the first time. He watches out for danger and meets a friend along the way.

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animals, confidence, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, friendship, play, rabbit, safety, self esteem, verbal communication

Where's julius

Burningham, John

A young boy, Julius, uses his imagination to take him on many exciting adventures.

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adventures, critical thinking, imagination, travel

Our tree named Steve

Zweibel, Alan

In a letter to his children, a father reflects upon the importance of a good friend and the value of a place to feel safe and secure. The father recalls various memories of his family as it has grown in relationship to a favorite tree that had been part of their lives since they built their home. The tree seems to help the family through many events but does not withstand a huge storm. The father uses the wood to build a tree house to continue its importance to the family.

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aging, appreciation, camping, caring, change, community, conflict resolution, correspondence, critical thinking, death, decision making, dedication, destruction, dog, emotions, family, feelings, friendship, goal setting, happiness, home, jumping, loss, moving, neighbors, parents, peace, plants, rain, relationship, sadness, safety, seasons, siblings, sleep, spring, storm, storytelling, summer, swinging, tree, verbal communication, weather, winter, writing

Mice, morels & monkey business: Likely lessons from Aesop's Fables

Wormell, Christopher

Character building lessons are presented in a condensed version of Aesop's Fables. Bright illustrations and simple explanations of these famed lessons present self development messages that range from Be prepared to Be careful what you wish for.

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acceptance, animals, ant, awareness, birds, boar, bull, camel, cat, conflict resolution, courage, crab, crane, critical thinking, crow, deception, decision making, deer, determination, dog, dolphin, eagle, fable, fly, fox, friendship, frog, grasshopper, identity, lion, monkey, mouse, nonverbal communication, peacock, peer resistance, reptiles, sheep, turtle, verbal communication, wolf

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