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Friends from the other side

Anzaldua, Gloria

Prietita is a young girl who befriends a young immigrant from Mexico. He lives with his mother in a shed. When the police come, Prietita hides them so they won't be taken away. This story is in English and Spanish.

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assertiveness, caring, conflict resolution, critical thinking, family, friendship, immigrants, mexican, multicultural, nonverbal communication, parents, poverty, pride, verbal communication

Meet guguze

Vangheli, Spiridon

Through a collection of eight short stories, young Guguze and his family enjoy adventures from season to season.

Old macdonald had a farm

Pearson, Tracey Campbell

Old MacDonald has a pretty typical day of feeding his animals and doing his chores.

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animals, bat, careers, cat, cow, dog, family, farm, goose, mule, pig, responsibilities, sheep, song, verbal communication

Bobby shafto's gone to sea

Taylor, Mark

This is a story about a man who had no experience on a ship. When he was forced to sail, he ruined everything. However, in the end, he managed to save the ship with his musical talent.

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boat, bodies of water, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, music, safety, sea, transportation, verbal communication

The storekeeper

Pearson, Tracey Campbell

The storekeeper has many daily activities starting from early in the morning when the shop opens, until the store closes and it is time to go home.

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careers, decision making, nonverbal communication, responsibilities, verbal communication

Officer buckle and gloria

Rathmann, Peggy

A policeman shares his safety tips with school children. His dull speeches become entertaining when his dog performs tricks on stage behind him. The children pay attention and improve their safety skills.

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animals, careers, conflict resolution, dog, listening, nonverbal communication, performance, safety, school, speech, verbal communication

Drawer in a drawer

Christiana, David

Fud is an drawer (one who draws) who sleeps in a drawer. He draws a box and the moon gets caught in it. He eventually sets the moon free.

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art, careers, critical thinking, imagination, moon, mystery, nonverbal communication, 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

The enormous potato

Davis, Aubrey

A farmer plants a potato eye to grow a potato. It grows so enormous that the whole family has to work together to pull the potato from the ground. They then cook the potato for the whole town to eat it.

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careers, challenges, conflict resolution, cooperation, critical thinking, decision making, determination, family, farm, food, garden, neighbors, nutrition, plants, problem solving, sequence, sizes, teamwork, verbal communication

Teach us, amelia bedelia

Parish, Peggy

Amelia Bedelia goes to the school to give the principal a message and ends up teaching for the day. She follows the teachers directions in an unusual way. The teacher and the kids both enjoy her, especially her taffy apples she gives as a treat.

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careers, conflict resolution, confusion, critical thinking, decision making, food, helping, learning, literal interpretation, nutrition, responsibilities, school, stress management, verbal communication

Bonjour, mr. satie

dePaola, Tomie

Mr. Satie has to decide whose paintings are better - Henri or Pablo. His decision ends up uniting the two artists and ending their feud.

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art, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, fight, french, honesty, multicultural, travel, uniqueness, verbal communication

Simple pictures are best

Willard, Nancy

A shoemaker and his wife want to have their picture taken for their wedding anniversary. A photographer comes to their house to take their picture. The entire time, the couple keeps adding objects to their photo setting. The photographer keeps reminding them that simple pictures are best.

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careers, conflict resolution, decision making, family, learning, memories, verbal communication

A troll in passing

Krensky, Stephen

Imagine growing up and being just a little different than everyone else. Morgan was never interested in troll things, even the games they played. He wanted more than troll life could give him. When he gets the job of forager, he begins a whole new life.

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adventures, careers, challenges, critical thinking, decision making, differences, fantasy, friendship, growing up, trolls, verbal communication

The biggest truck

Lyon, David

Truck driver Jim gets up when everyone else is going to sleep. He will drive seven hours to Woosterville to deliver strawberries. Drive along with Jim and his big truck.

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careers, determination, differences, food, goal setting, nonverbal communication, nutrition, sleep, sounds, transportation, travel, verbal communication

Guess what?

Fox, Mem

Through a series of questions to which the reader must answer yes or no, the personality and occupation of Daisy O'Grady is revealed.

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careers, critical thinking, decision making, verbal communication

Girls can be anything

Klein, Norma

Marina, a little girl, loves to play pretend with her best friend Adam. They pretent what they will be when they grow up. Adam tells Maria that she cannot have a career like a doctor because girls can only he nurses. Adam is always telling her that girls cannot do certain things but Marina always proves she can.

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assertiveness, bias, careers, creativity, family, friendship, gender, growing up, parents, pretend, self esteem, stereotypes, verbal communication

Summer business

Martin, Charles E.

A bunch of children on an island decide to work for the summer. They sell painted rocks, have a flea market, lemonade stand, dog-sit, and take people across the river. They earn enough money to go to the fair and have a wonderful time together.

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assertiveness, beverage, careers, conflict resolution, cooperation, decision making, friendship, goal setting, island, responsibilities, seasons, stress management, summer, teamwork, transportation, verbal communication

Tucking mommy in

Loh, Morag

Two girls' mother is too tired from work to tell them a bedtime story, so the two girls tell their own story and tuck their mother in bed.

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bedtime, careers, conflict resolution, cooperation, decision making, family, helping, parents, responsibilities, siblings, sleep, verbal communication

Daniel's duck

Bulla, Clyde Robert

Daniel wants to learn to carve wood. So he carves a duck and takes it to the fair. People at the fair laugh at his duck, but the town woodcarver finds a lot of potential in his work.

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careers, competition, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, goal setting, self esteem, verbal communication

The painter who loved chickens

Dunrea, Olivier

A painter who loves chickens lives in the city, but longs to live on a farm. He paints pictures for people to buy, but paints his chickens for himself. One day he paints an extraordinary picture and a true art lover buys it. This changes his life forever.

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art, birds, careers, change, chicken, farm, love, penguin, success, 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

By the dawn's early light

Ackerman, Karen

Rachel and Josh's mother works the graveyard shift at the factory. The children play with their Nana and she helps them with their homework then gets them ready for bed. They share a special time with their mom in the morning before school, cherishing their time with her by the dawn's early light.

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careers, caring, child care, family, grandparents, hard work, love, nonverbal communication, parents, siblings, stress management, verbal communication, working mother

An actor

Goffstein, Brooke

A little boy speaks to the reader about his feature presentation and past character roles. He depicts his life as an actor.

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assertiveness, careers, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

Morgan and the artist

Carrick, Donald

An artist finds his own style through the help of his studio spirit, Morgan. With success and fame, the artist becomes afraid to change and quickly loses his success. Morgan helps him regain his inspiration and sense of art.

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art, careers, change, conflict resolution, courage, fear, goal setting, helping, peer resistance, self esteem, success, verbal communication

Noah's ark

Haley, Gail E.

Noah dreams about an empty zoo with extinct animal signs, so he builds an ark to save the animals from the badly polluted environment.

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animals, boat, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, dreams, environment, helping, verbal communication, zoo

Saying goodbye to daddy

Vigna, Judith

A young girl copes with the death of her father. Her mother and grandfather help her through the painful grieving after the car accident.

Good luck, mrs. k.!

Borden, Louise

Mrs. K teaches Ann's third grade class. In class they are explorers, scientists, poets, and astronauts. They are always learning something new. One day, Mrs. K doesn't come to school. The students learn that she is in the hospital with cancer. For the rest of the year the third grade has a substitute. On the last day of school, Mrs. K comes back to surprise her students.

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animals, basketball, cancer, dancing, discovery, exercise, geography, guinea pig, hospital, illness, insects, learning, letters, listening, math, pets, practice, reading, school, science, sign language, skating, spelling, sports, surprises, teaching, travel, verbal communication, worm

When eric's mom fought cancer

Vigna, Judith

A young boy copes with his mother's cancer. Going through a range of emotions, he finally comes to more of an understanding about her illness.

Hester in the wild

Boynton, Sandra

Hester wants to go camping, but she keeps running into problems. First she has a hole in her canoe, then in her foot. After many other catastrophies, she finally goes home.

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camping, conflict resolution, coping, critical thinking, decision making, feelings, nonverbal communication, recreation, stress management, verbal communication

Siggy's spaghetti works

Thomson, Peggy

Siggy takes a group of students through his spaghetti factory. He shows them how to make spaghetti from start to finish. The children get to test the pasta during their tour. Siggy tells the students of the history of spaghetti and then they all dine on spaghetti.

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business, food, hard work, history, italian, learning, machines, multicultural, nutrition, presentation, taste, train, transportation, verbal communication

Soo ling finds a way

Behrens, June

A little girl is worried because a new laundromat business is moving across the street from her grandfather's old laundry business. She sets out to help her grandfather stay in business.

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asian american, assertiveness, business, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, fear, goal setting, grandparents, helping, multicultural, stress management, verbal communication

Nobody knew what to do: A story about bullying

McCain, Becky Ray

Members of a class are always picking on Ray. Finally, a student decides that he can't continue to ignore this, so he tells a teacher about the situation. When the bullies come around this time, so do the teacher and principal.

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acceptance, aggression, behavior, bully, caring, conflict resolution, decision making, emotions, fear, feelings, fight, helping, misbehavior, playground, problem solving, school, verbal communication

How to lose all your friends

Carlson, Nancy

There are six ways to lose all your friends. Don't smile, never share, be a bully, be a poor sport, tattle, and whine. Can you be a better friend by the end of this story?

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acceptance, aggression, anger, baseball, bully, dishonesty, feelings, food, friendship, games, instructions, nonverbal communication, opposites, parents, relationship, sadness, self esteem, sharing, sports, verbal communication, wisdom

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

The evil spell

McCully, Emily Arnold

Little Edwin bear has his first major role in a play. Edwin's struggles with stagefright and remembering his lines.

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assertiveness, bravery, conflict resolution, embarrassment, family, goal setting, memory, peer resistance, performance, refusal skills, self esteem, stagefright, stress management, verbal communication

The maggie b.

Haas, Irene

A little girl wishes she could sail all day on a boat. Her wish comes true when she gets to sail on a boat named for her best friend, maggie b.

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assertiveness, boat, bravery, conflict resolution, decision making, dreams, friendship, imagination, nonverbal communication, self esteem, transportation, verbal communication

Terrible things

Bunting, Eve

This story paints the bleak picture of the Terrible Things which takes each of the animals in a clearing. The Terrible Things are equated to hunters.

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animals, bravery, death, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

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

Once when I was scared

Pittman, Helena Clare

A young boy recalls an imaginative tale once told to him by his grandfather. The story is about how his grandfather had to cross two hills and go through the dark woods to get hot coals for their fire. He would get so scared and run so fast that he thought he was an eagle. Grandfather gives his grandson two eagle feathers to use when he gets scared.

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birds, bravery, conflict resolution, courage, eagle, family, fear, feelings, goal setting, grandparents, imagination, self esteem, storytelling, verbal communication

By the dawn's early light: The story of the star-spangled banner

Kroll, Steven

An account of the writing of the Star-Spangled Banner detailing how Key was actually behind enemy lines. He was seeking release of a captured friend from the British who would not allow their departure until the bombardment of Baltimore was completed.

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assertiveness, bravery, courage, critical thinking, dedication, history, nonverbal communication, sequence, song, verbal communication, war

Bad day at riverbend

Allsburg, Chris Van

The small town of Riverbend is under siege by omnipresent forces in this wonderful tale.

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assertiveness, bravery, community, conflict resolution, cowboys, critical thinking, decision making, fight, ghosts, goal setting, mystery, nonverbal communication, stress management, verbal communication

The angel with a mouth-organ

Mattingly, Christobel

Ingrid asks her mother to tell the story about their glass angel on their Christmas tree. The mother describes her childhood during World War II and shows how the angel came to symbolize a new beginning in their lives.

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angel, assertiveness, bravery, christmas, conflict resolution, courage, critical thinking, decision making, family, goal setting, hard work, history, holidays, nonverbal communication, self esteem, spiritual, stress management, verbal communication, war

Angel mae

Hughes, Shirley

The event of a birth in her family and preparations for a Christmas play cause Mae to be anxious. Mae's courage helps her to make decisions to solve her problems.

There's a little bit of me in jamey

Amadeo, Diana M.

Jamey has leukemia and becomes very sick. His brother feels like his family cares more about Jamey than they do him. His mother assures him that he is loved just as much as Jamey. When Jamey needs a bone marrow transplant he agrees to be the donor.

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bravery, caring, decision making, envy, family, fear, feelings, grandparents, illness, love, moods, parents, sadness, self esteem, siblings, verbal communication, worry

Gabrielle and selena

Desbarats, Peter

Gabrielle and Selena are tired of the same routine everyday. They switch places for the evening, and their parents play a trick on them. Be ready for a funny ending.

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assertiveness, boredom, conflict resolution, critical thinking, curiosity, differences, friendship, magic, play, verbal communication

Evan's corner

Hill, Elizabeth Starr

Evan needs a place of his own so he fixes up a corner in his house with pictures, furniture, and pet turtles!When Evan is done with his corner, he decides to help his siblings fix up their corners!

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african american, assertiveness, boredom, creativity, critical thinking, decision making, family, helping, multicultural, parents, siblings, verbal communication

Too many books

Bauer, Caroline Feller

Maralou loved books and received them on all occasions. Soon she had too many books and did not know what to do. She decided to give them away and now all the children in towns nearby were reading books too.

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books, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, reading, sharing, verbal communication

The library

Stewart, Sarah

Elizabeth Brown spends her whole life buying and reading books because she loves them so much. When she realizes that there is no room for books in her house, she decides to give them all away so others can enjoy them too.

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books, daydreaming, decision making, entertainment, feelings, fun, language, library, nonverbal communication, reading, rhyme, selfishness, sharing, verbal communication

How my library grew, by dinah

Alexander, Martha

There is a new library being built near Dinah's house. She watched it get larger and could not wait for it to open. When it did she wanted to get a card of her own, so Dinah learned how to write her name and got her own library card.

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assertiveness, books, goal setting, imagination, library, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

Bones, bones, dinosaur bones

Barton, Byron

Six small paleontologists search for bones. They dig, find, load and take the bones to a museum where they carefully put the bones together to form the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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bones, critical thinking, decision making, dinosaur, goal setting, nonverbal communication, problem solving, teamwork, verbal communication

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