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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

Beats me, claude

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Shirley and Tom are a lonely old couple until Tom comes to stay with them. Shirley tries to make pie but everytime she tries, robbers come. The pie is so bad it makes them all sick.

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conflict resolution, decision making, food, illness, loneliness, nutrition, robbery

While Buglar Bill is out stealing, he takes a box. When he gets home, he finds that there is a baby in the box. When Burglar Betty is robbing Bill, she discovers that he has her baby. They decide to stop stealing and get married.

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goal setting, relationship, robbery

The little old man and his dreams

Ross, L

A little old man's wish before his death is to attend his granddaughter's wedding and see her happy with her new husband. His journey is plagued with troubles and his gift of pearls is stolen.

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acceptance, aging, conflict resolution, coping, death, decision making, determination, dreams, family, goal setting, grandparents, Jewish, nonverbal communication, presents, religion, robbery, travel

Monster mama

Rosenberg, Liz

Patrick Edward's mother is known as a monster all over town. One day, Patrick's mother sends him out to get strawberries. On his way home, three bullies steal the strawberries. Monster Mama is so upset that she teaches the boys a lesson, and they think of her as Cool.

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acceptance, assertiveness, bravery, bully, conflict resolution, decision making, differences, family, food, learning, monsters, nonverbal communication, parents, peer resistance, robbery, uniqueness

Why the chicken crossed the road

Macaulay, David

A chicken crosses a road. This starts a whole series of events which eventually come back to the beginning to explain why the chicken crossed the road.

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accidents, birds, chicken, conflict resolution, nonverbal communication, robbery

You bet your britches, claude

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Tom is adopted by Shirley and Claude, and he hopes that they will adopt his sister, Bessie. Bessie and Shirley make a great team of catching crooks. Bessie spots them, and Shirley stops them. Bessie makes a great deputy and new daughter.

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adoption, assertiveness, careers, conflict resolution, cowboys, decision making, family, robbery, self confidence, siblings

Bossyboots

Cox, David

Abigail is a little girl who bosses everyone around. On her stagecoach ride to Narrabri, a robber tries to steal all of the passengers' valuables. However, when he encounters Abigail, she yells at him and calls him Bossyboots. He listens to her and gives up all the loot.

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adventures, assertiveness, bully, conflict resolution, critical thinking, refusal skills, robbery, travel, verbal communication

Stanley henry bear's friend

McPhail, David

Stanley leaves his comfortable country home in search of adventure and fortune. He meets characters who manipulate him and others who treat him will.

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adventures, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, fear, fortune, friendship, homesickness, peer resistance, robbery, running away, stress management, verbal communication

Otto in texas

du Bois, William Pene

Duke wants to buy Otto, a giant dog. Duke is offered one million dollars for the pup, but he turned it down. Duke and Otto go to Texas where Otto catches three bad guys stealing oil.

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adventures, animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, dog, geography, pets, robbery, travel, verbal communication

The bremen-town musicians

Plume, Ilse

Four animals were growing old and useless to their owners so they decide to run away and become musicians. Along their journey, they chase away robbers and find their place to stay forever.

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aging, animals, careers, conflict resolution, goal setting, music, robbery, self esteem, shelter, teamwork, travel

The grey lady and the strawberry snatcher

Bang, Molly

A man with a passion for strawberries gives an old lady some strawberries to take home. On her way home, the strawberry snatcher tries to steal her strawberries. After failed attempts, the strawberry snatcher settles on eating blackberries from a nearby bush. (Wordless book)

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aging, food, nonverbal communication, nutrition, persistence, refusal skills, robbery

The angel and the soldier boy

Collington, Peter

A little girl dreams a story. She dreams her little angel and soldier boy come alive to save her coin from the pirates who stole it. (A Wordless Book)

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angel, critical thinking, dreams, nonverbal communication, pig, pirates, robbery, sleep

Paper john

Small, David

Paper John is a man who everyone loves. He also has a great talent for making things out of paper. He runs into a devil who appears in town as a thief. Paper John captures the devil before it destroys the town.

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anger, community, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, devils, feelings, folktale, greed, nonverbal communication, problem solving, rescue, robbery, verbal communication

Louie's search

Keats, Ezra Jack

Louie goes out to search for a father and sees all kinds of people. Finally, he finds a music box. A man thinks he stole it so he chases Louie and takes him home. Louie's mom and the man end up getting married.

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anger, conflict resolution, decision making, discovery, family, fear, feelings, marriage, music, nonverbal communication, parents, robbery, verbal communication

Bill and pete go down the nile

dePaola, Tomie

Bill and his friend Pete go on a field trip down the Nile. They are in for a surprise when they encounter a jewel thief and save the precious jewel from being stolen.

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animals, assertiveness, birds, crocodile, egyptian, history, multicultural, nonverbal communication, robbery, school, verbal communication, water

Scuttle the stowaway mouse

Soule, Jean//Soule, Nancy

A mouse stows away on a pirate ship but it is attacked and begins to sink. He grabs some treasures and returns safely to land to make a prosperous living.

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animals, assertiveness, bodies of water, critical thinking, decision making, goal setting, mouse, pirates, robbery, safety, ship

The church mice and the moon

Oakley, Graham

Two church mice are kidnapped for use as astronauts. As they are about to be launched to the moon, their caretaking cat rescues them.

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animals, astronaut, careers, cat, child care, kidnapped, moon, mouse, robbery

Anotole and the pied piper

Titus, Eve

Anotale, a mouse, has to be a hero and save the children of his village from a musician. The musician steals the children so he can use them in his symphony. The mice end up escaping because they trick one of the musicians.

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animals, assertiveness, careers, conflict resolution, cooperation, deception, decision making, escape, goal setting, mouse, music, nonverbal communication, refusal skills, robbery, verbal communication

Buster loves buttons

Manushkin, Fran

Buster loves buttons and even goes so far as to take them right off of people's clothing. Finally, a little girl and her dog set Buster straight.

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animals, assertiveness, clothing, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, determination, dog, goal setting, imagination, nonverbal communication, problem solving, revenge, robbery, verbal communication

The tiger who lost his stripes

Paul, Anthony

General MacTiger is the most magnificent animal in the forest, until he loses his stripes. His friend, the Python, stole them and now General MacTiger has to find a way to get them back.

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animals, compromise, conflict resolution, deception, decision making, friendship, goal setting, reptiles, robbery, sharing, snake, tiger, verbal communication

Elmer blunt's open house

Novak, Matt

Elmer is late for work so in his hurry he does not shut his door. While he is at work, animals and then a robber come in his house. The animals scare away the robber. When Elmer gets back, he does not even realize that anyone was ever there.

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animals, consequences, curiosity, nonverbal communication, responsibilities, robbery, shelter

Martha speaks

Meddaugh, Susan

Martha, a dog, eats alphabet soup and learns to talk. Her talking becomes annoying until it saves their home from a robbery.

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animals, assertiveness, communication, conflict resolution, crisis, dog, responsibilities, robbery, stress management

Dog breath

Pilkey, Dave

The Tosis family has a dog named Hally. Hally is a wonderful dog except that she has very bad breath. When Mr. and Mrs. Tosis cannot take Hally's bad breath anymore they decide to give her away. The kids try to fix the problem by taking her to a mountain top to see the view, a movie, and a carnival to ride a roller coaster in the hopes that they will take Hally's bad breath away but nothing works. That night two burglars break into the house but when Hally kisses them the burglars pass out from the smell and Hally and her breath are, heroes!

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animals, carnival, crime, critical thinking, dog, family, fish, grandparents, heroism, hygiene, miracle, mountains, newspaper, night, parents, robbery, sadness, siblings, skunk, smell

The tiger-skin rug

Rose, Gerald

A really skinny tiger does not feel part of the jungle, so he leaves home to live with a human family as a rug. He protects the family when robbers come into the house.

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acceptance, animals, assertiveness, change, decision making, differences, feelings, happiness, loneliness, robbery, self esteem, shelter, tiger

Inspector mouse

Stone, Bernard//Steadman, Ralph

Some mice find their store empty. Toothy Mouse and Inspector Mouse travel to the club and the pier to find their stolen cheese.

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animals, assertiveness, decision making, food, goal setting, mouse, nutrition, peer resistance, problem solving, robbery, travel

It's so nice to have a wolf around

Allard, Harry//Marshall, James

An old man and his three old pets needed someone to look after them. The wolf came and helped them get their spirits up. The man and his cats did not know that the wolf was wanted for bank robbery. The wolf was set free because he was so nice to the old man and they all lived happily ever after.

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animals, cat, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, forgiveness, kindness, robbery, self esteem, wolf

The great diamond robbery

Harris, Leon

Maurice the mouse comes from the Louvre in Francis to live at a Neiman-Marcus store in America. Richard, the store's chairman, finds him and they become good friends. Maurice tries out all of the toys. When someone tries to steal a diamond necklace, Maurice catches the thief.

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adventures, animals, change, critical thinking, decision making, friendship, mouse, nonverbal communication, robbery

The tale of two bad mice

Potter, Beatrix

Two mice raid a little girl's doll house, while the dolls are out one day. They break the dolls belongings and take some things. In the end, the two bad mice have to pay for everything they broke and clean up the mess they made.

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animals, conflict resolution, decision making, dolls, honesty, mischief, mouse, responsibilities, robbery

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

Na-ni

Deveaux, Alexis

Na-ni waits all day with much excitement for the mailman to bring his mom's welfare check. He is going to get a bike!But, his plans fall through when a thief breaks into his mailbox and steals it.

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anticipation, community, fly, goal setting, neighbors, robbery, sun, verbal communication

Squash pie

Gage, Wilson

Due to his love for squash pie, a farmer plants many crops of squash, only to have them stolen repeatedly. The farmer creates different devices to catch the thief, but fails on each attempt. His wife admits to the crime and discovers her own love for squash pies.

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anticipation, conflict resolution, decision making, disappointment, food, goal setting, hard work, nonverbal communication, nutrition, plants, robbery, verbal communication

Three foolish tales

Tompert, Ann

Skunk and raccoon wanted Fox's purple umbrella. They tried to take it from her by theft and trickery, but in the end it was fox who out-tricked the both of them.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, deception, decision making, fox, goal setting, peer resistance, raccoon, refusal skills, robbery, skunk, verbal communication

The case of the sneaker snatcher

Shearer, John

When Sneaker has his sneakers stolen, he turns to his friends for help. They solve the case when the misspelled word sneeker links them to the thief.

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basketball, critical thinking, decision making, exercise, friendship, lost, peer resistance, problem solving, recreation, robbery, sports

The man who could call down owls

Bunting, Eve

A man has control over the owls. He is one in the same with them. A stranger takes the man's owl clothes, but the owl man turns into an owl and wins the confrontation.

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assertiveness, birds, conflict resolution, nonverbal communication, owl, robbery, verbal communication

Outside over there

Sendak, Maurice

Ida is supposed to take care of her baby sister while their father is at sea. One day when she is not paying attention, goblins come and kidnap her sister. Ida plays her horn to charm the goblins with her music and rescues her sister. From that day on, she never takes her eyes off her baby sister.

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assertiveness, bodies of water, child care, critical thinking, family, goblins, kidnapped, music, parents, refusal skills, responsibilities, robbery, sea, siblings, stress management

The king's stilts

Seuss, Dr.

King Bistram's stilts are taken away and he becomes depressed. His kingdom, which is surrounded by the sea, is sabotaged by an awful lord. Because the king is so depressed, he neglects his duties and the city is in danger of becoming flooded, until his page boy comes to the rescue.

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assertiveness, bodies of water, chaos, critical thinking, decision making, depression, diseases, fantasy, feelings, imagination, nature, play, robbery, royalty, sea

Nothing ever happens on my block

Raskin, Ellen

Chester Filbert sits on the curb outside his house and thinkds about how boring his block is. He imagines the kinds of exciting things that he would like to happen on his block. While he sits and dreams, the neighbors on his block are busy catching burglars, putting out fires and much more.

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boredom, imagination, neighbors, nonverbal communication, robbery

The enchanted sticks

Myers, Steven J.

The old man in the story vanquishes a band of vicious robbers with the help of enchanted sticks.

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bravery, courage, magic, nature, nonverbal communication, robbery, verbal communication

The kidnapping of the coffee pot

Saari, Kaye

The coffee pot is kidnapped so the shoes, lawnmower and kerosene lamp go to the junk man to get her back.

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bravery, careers, decision making, feelings, friendship, goal setting, happiness, helping, kidnapped, robbery

Georgie and the robbers

Bright, Robert

A small ghost named Georgie lives in the Whittkaker house. When the house is threatened by robbers, the friendly ghost and his animal friends work together to scare the robbers away.

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animals, assertiveness, bravery, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, friendship, ghosts, nonverbal communication, robbery, self esteem, teamwork, verbal communication

Chameleon was a spy

Massie, Diane Redfield

A chameleon decides to go to work as a spy. He tries to get a stolen pickle recipe, when he is bottled up in a pickle jar. He saves the recipe and the company.

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assertiveness, careers, chameleon, decision making, food, nonverbal communication, nutrition, reptiles, robbery, self esteem, verbal communication

Two-ton secret

Christian, Mary Blount

Deke King and his friend open a detective business. A construction company owner hired them to find all of his bulldozers that were stolen. After looking over the site and the clues, Deke solved the mystery and found the bulldozers.

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assertiveness, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, goal setting, investigation, mystery, nonverbal communication, robbery, verbal communication

How the rooster saved the day

Lobel, Arnold

A robber loves the night and wants to kill a rooster so the sun will never come up again. The rooster outsmarts the robber and the robber calls up the sun himself.

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birds, chicken, courage, day, night, robbery, sun

The baron's booty

Kahl, Virginia

A dutch and dutchess have thirteen girls and a robber baron decides to take the girls for rewards. But as he takes care of the girls, he realizes how much work and trouble they are and will give anything for them to take their children back.

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child care, conflict resolution, family, mischief, parents, robbery, royalty

How the grinch stole christmas

Seuss, Dr.

The Grinch wants to stop Chrismas in Who-ville, so he dresses up as Santa and takes all the materialistic parts of Christmas. When the Grinch realizes the Who's are not upset and that there still is a Christmas, he realizes that Christmas is more than presents and decorations. He returns their belongings and discovers the true meaning of Christmas.

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christmas, conflict resolution, critical thinking, fear, feelings, happiness, holidays, honesty, presents, rhyme, robbery, self esteem

Sheep in wolves' clothing

Kitamura, Satoshi

Three sheep go to the beach for the last swim of the year and ask some wolves to watch their fleecy coats. When they return from their swim, they find that their wool is gone. They hire a detective to solve the mystery of their stolen wool.

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adventures, animals, beach, boat, car, clothing, conflict resolution, crime, critical thinking, fight, golf, investigation, mystery, nonverbal communication, robbery, sand, sheep, sports, transportation, trick, verbal communication, water, wolf

Nobody stole the pie

Levitin, Sonia

In the town of Little Digby, there is a Lollyberry tree that grows delicious berries. Each year, they have a festival and eat a big lollyberry pie. Everyone takes a little piece throughout the day and think nothing of it. By the time of celebration, there is only one piece left for the mayor. Nobody admits to stealing the pie, but the mayor knows everybody stole the pie.

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