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My brother, ant

Byars, Betsy

Anthony is a wild and creative little brother who, in the course of four different stories, tests the patience of his older brother.

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acceptance, activities, bedtime, caring, challenges, coping, correspondence, creativity, family, fear, fight, forgiveness, growing up, helping, imagination, mischief, monsters, patience, siblings, storytelling, worry, writing

Morris, Boris, Horace, and Doris are four wild boars that are not good at all. Although the children try to be polite and help the wild boars or share their snack with them, the boars still cannot be good. The contrast of good and poor behaviors are pointed out in the humorous text.

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animals, boar, feelings, five senses, flea, friendship, humor, manners, misbehavior, mischief, nonverbal communication, refusal skills, smell

White wash

Shange, Ntozake

Helene-Angel is the only person in her class to have to wait for her brother, Mauricio to walk her home. On their walk home, a group of boys decide to pick on her. Her brother is out-numbered so the boys paint her white. She is devastated and refuses to leave her room. Find out how her grandma helps her overcome her fears.

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acceptance, african, aggression, american, apathy, appreciation, awareness, behavior, beliefs, bravery, challenges, chaos, family, feelings, frustration, mischief, multicultural, persistence, racism, resentment, stereotypes, support, uniqueness

A to z do you ever feel like me?

Hausman, Bonnie

How are you feeling today?Join the children in this book to find out if they are feeling the same way. Learn the letters of the alphabet while you solve the puzzles of emotions. Have fun!

If you give a moose a muffin

Numeroff, Laura

A little boy decides to entertain a moose who asks for many things. The boy runs around trying to satisfy the moose, who in turn, makes a big mess.

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accidents, animals, conflict resolution, decision making, food, mischief, mouse, nutrition, play

When agnes caws

Fleming, Candace

Agnes Peregrine has always loved birds and has recently found out that she has a true talent for bird calling. She goes to the Himalayan Mountains with her mother in search of the rarest bird of all. Little does she know that an evil colonel has followed them and wants this rare bird for his own collection!

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accomplishment, africa, assertiveness, beauty, birds, boat, careers, collection, conflict, conservation, critical thinking, deception, decision making, duck, hummingbird, hunting, jungle, maps, mischief, mountains, pheasant, refusal skills, rescue, sounds, train, travel, verbal communication, wilderness, yak

Snow family

Kirk, Daniel

Join a young boy as he wanders into the snow to meet new friends. His friends are missing their noses, hats, and part of their family. Help the boy try to find what his new friends need.

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adventures, affection, animals, assertiveness, barn, bear, behavior, birds, body parts, cardinal, caring, clothing, cold, conflict resolution, cow, crow, decision making, dog, exercise, family, farm, fear, feelings, fight, forest, friendship, fun, love, mischief, nonverbal communication, parents, playing, problem solving, sadness, sleep, snow, sounds, sparrow, squirrel, tree, verbal communication, weather, wind, winter

Curious george gets a medal

Rey, H.A.

Curious George is home alone and his mischief leads him on quite an adventure. In the end, he goes on his biggest adventure yet and becomes a hero.

The color box

Dodds, Dayle Ann

Alexander the monkey discovers a box which introduces him to a world of color. Each new color is an adventure and a discovery for Alexander.

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adventures, animals, decision making, discovery, mischief, monkey, nonverbal communication, sight

Hog-eye

Meddaugh, Susan

What would happen to you if you skipped school?Would you have a good story to tell your parents and would they believe you?This little pig's story has lots of adventure.

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adventures, animals, assertiveness, critical thinking, family, mischief, nonverbal communication, parents, pig, school, storytelling, stress management, truth, verbal communication, wolf

Grandpa's face

Greenfield, Eloise

Tamika loves her grandpa and she especially loves the way she can tell how he is feeling by looking at his face. One day when her grandpa is rehearsing for a play, Tamika sees his angry, mean face. Tamika misbehaves at dinner by playing with her food, because she is afraid that he will make that face at her.

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african american, conflict resolution, family, feelings, food, friendship, generations, grandparents, mischief, moods, multicultural, nutrition, walking

Angela's airplane

Munsch, Robert

Angela loses her father at the airport and climbs into a plane. She starts pushing buttons and the plane takes off. Then she crashes the plane and promises never to fly again, but becomes a pilot later.

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airplane, careers, curiosity, injury, mischief, travel

The awful aardvarks go to school

Lindberg, Reeve

Some mischievous aardvarks visit school and create chaos in the class. The other animals in the class do not like the aardvarks' behavior and the aardvarks are expelled.

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aardvark, alliteration, alphabet, animals, chaos, misbehavior, mischief, rhyme, school, sequence

The cat in the hat comes back

Seuss, Dr.

The Cat in the Hat returns to visit Salley and her brother's house while their mother is gone. The children shovel the sidewalk, causing mischief and a big mess. Then, the Cat in the Hat brings out his helpers, Cats A-Z, to help clean up.

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alphabet, animals, assertiveness, cleanliness, critical thinking, decision making, family, imagination, mischief, peer resistance, refusal skills, responsibilities, siblings, snow, stress management, weather

I took my frog to the library

Kimmel, Eric A.

Bridgett has many unusual animals as pets. Each day she tries to take a different animal to the library with her. Each animal creates a mess in one way or another.

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animals, birds, chaos, chicken, elephant, frog, giraffe, library, listening, mischief, nonverbal communication, pelican, pets, reptiles, snake

The cat in the hat

Seuss, Dr.

It was too wet to play outside, so Sally and her brother just sat inside. Along came the Cat in the Hat with a bunch of silly tricks that made a huge mess. Right before their mother returns, they clean everything up.

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animals, assertiveness, cat, creativity, critical thinking, decision making, family, imagination, mischief, play, rain, refusal skills, responsibilities, siblings, weather

The howling dog

Pearson, Tracey Campbell

A howling dog howls and barks all night until the entire town is awake. The howling dog is no longer lonely, so she stops howling and barking. The town goes back to sleep and so does the howling dog.

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animals, bedtime, cat, chaos, community, confusion, dog, loneliness, mischief, night, sleep

Max's dragon shirt

Wells, Rosemary

Max does not want to get rid of his old blue pants!Instead he wants a dragon shirt, but his mom did not give his sister enough money to buy one. Max loses his sister at the story and gets into a little mischief.

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animals, clothing, family, lost, mischief, parents, rabbit, shopping, siblings

Curious george

Rey, H.A.

Curious George, an African monkey, becomes quite adventurous as he travels on boats, to zoos, and many other places. After taking in the sights and getting into mischief, George is captured and must live at the zoo.

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accidents, animals, assertiveness, boat, curiosity, loneliness, mischief, monkey, refusal skills, self esteem, transportation, travel, verbal communication, zoo

Curious george flies a kite

Rey, Margaret

Curious George travels about the neighborhood getting into trouble. He decides to fly a kite and gets swept away. His owner saves him and his friend is happy that his kite is saved.

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animals, community, critical thinking, curiosity, decision making, mischief, monkey, play, recreation, verbal communication

Five little monkeys

Kepes, Juliet

Five mischievous monkeys are always playing tricks on the other animals in the jungle. After a trick is played on them, they change their ways and even manage to save their new friends from Terrible the Tiger.

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animals, conflict resolution, deception, friendship, jungle, lion, mischief, monkey, stress management, tiger, verbal communication

Mice twice

Low, Joseph

A cat gets hungry and askes a mouse over to eat for dinner. Mouse brings a dog with her. The mouse and the cat try to outsmart each other but the mouse wins in the end.

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alligator, animals, cat, dog, friendship, mischief, mouse, reptiles, surprises

Mama's perfect present

Goode, Diane

Two sweet spirited, young siblings and their mischievous dog exercise their muscles and goodwill as they search for the perfect present for Mama. They experience a comic escapade through the city blocks of markets and vendors.

Martha and skits

Meddaugh, Susan

The whole family, including Martha, the talking dog, is excited when Skits arrives. Skits is a young and mischievious dog. As he grows, the family thinks that it is time to give him alphabet soup so he will be able to talk. However, it doesn't have the same effect on Skits as it did on Martha. At first everyone is sad, especially Skits, until they discover his other talents.

Walter's tail

Ernst, Lisa Campbell

A dog and its owner enjoy time together. Some town members dislike the dog until he saves the day.

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animals, community, dog, friendship, heroism, mischief, pets

Old mother hubbard and her wonderful dog

Marshall, James

Old Mother Hubbard goes to the cupboard, the baker, the undertaker, the butcher, and other places to find something to please her dog.

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animals, dog, mischief, neighbors, responsibilities, rhyme

The trouble with elephants

Riddell, Chris

A little girl thinks that elephants are a lot of trouble. They do many annoying things, such as take all the covers at night and eat all the cupcakes. The real trouble with elephants is that you cannot help but love them.

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animals, critical thinking, elephant, feelings, food, frustration, mischief, nonverbal communication, sleep, stress management, verbal communication

The mean old mean hyena

Prelutsky, Jack

The hynea prides himself on being the meanest animal who plays dirty tricks on the zebra, ostrich, elephant, and lion. The other animals try to take revenge on him, but he fools them and gets away.

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animals, conflict resolution, consequences, deception, elephant, humor, hyena, lion, mischief, ostrich, verbal communication, zebra

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

Curious george goes to the hospital

Rey, Margret//Rey, H.A.

Curious George needs to go to the hospital. While he is there, he succeeds in making a sad girl very happy and creates a lot of mischief.

One monkey too many

Koller, Jackie French

When one monkey too many jumps on a bike, trouble is right around the corner. Only two monkeys on the golf cart at once!Add three more monkeys and disaster strikes. These monkeys need help at a restaurant, going to bed, and illustrating this book!

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animals, art, bedtime, beverage, bicycle, biking, boat, bodies of water, books, counting, decision making, exercise, food, golf, lake, mischief, monkey, restaurant, rules, safety, sports, transportation

The tale of peter rabbit

Potter, Beatrix

Peter is a little rabbit who does not listen when his mother tells him to stay away from Mr. McGregor's garden. He goes to the garden and eats some vegetables until Mr. McGregor sees him and tries to catch him. Peter finally finds his way out, but then spends the evening in bed.

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animals, consequences, fear, garden, mischief, neighbors, nonverbal communication, rabbit, rules, vegetables, verbal communication

The tale of timmy tiptoes

Potter, Beatrix

Timmy Tiptoes is a squirrel who has a wife named Goody. When it is time to pick nuts to be stored for the winter, the other squirrels think Timmy stole their nuts so they push him into a hole. Timmy stays stuck there so Goody does not know where he is. Finally they find each other with the help of a chipmunk.

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animals, chipmunk, critical thinking, food, mischief, nutrition, overeating, preparation, seasons, spring, squirrel, verbal communication, winter, woods, worry

The wolf's chicken stew

Kasza, Keiko

Mr. Wolf loves to eat, so when he sees a chicken he decides to make chicken stew. He feeds the chicken for several weeks to fatten her up. When it is time to make the stew, his plan backfires and instead he makes dinner for the chicken.

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animals, birds, chicken, deception, food, mischief, nutrition, wolf

Sassy gracie

Sage, James

Sassy Gracie has a pair of big, red, heeled shoes. She loves to prance around the house in them despite the fact they get on the cook's nerves. One day the cook is off and she is free to dance about the kitchen. The master has asked her to prepare two chickens for his guest. While they are cooking, she dances and dances until she gets hungry. She eats the chickens just as the guest arrives. Find out how she handles the situation.

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anticipation, attention, boredom, conflict, cooking, critical thinking, curiosity, dancing, hard work, mischief, misunderstanding, nonverbal communication, stress management, trust, verbal communication

Alexander the gander

Tudor, Tasha

Alexander the Gander loves heliotrope pansies, so he sneaks away from the pond to get a taste at Mrs. Fillow's garden. He eats some nice young vegetables too. When he gets caught, he takes off running for home. Sylvie, his owner, makes him apologize to Mrs. Fillow, and she forgives him.

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apology, assertiveness, birds, curiosity, decision making, determination, food, garden, goose, mischief, nutrition, plants, refusal skills, understanding, vegetables

"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

My mother never listens to me

Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman

A little boy's mother never pays attention to him so he does everything possible just to get her to notice him. Of all his crazy ideas and stories, he only tells one that will get his mother to listen.

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attention, boredom, family, imagination, listening, mischief, parents, storytelling, understanding

Not a little monkey

Zolotow, C.

A little girl tries to get her busy mother to play with her by doing a series of silly things, from pouring water on her head to climbing into the big wastebasket.

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assertiveness, attention, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, goal setting, mischief, nonverbal communication, parents, peer resistance, play, self esteem, stress management, verbal communication

Where is gah-ning?

Munsch, Robert

A little girl is determined to go shopping in a place called Kapuskasing. Her father stops her from going several times, but Gah-ning doesn't give up. Finally she ends up getting there by balloons.

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assertiveness, balloon, bicycle, clowns, conflict resolution, exercise, family, goal setting, mischief, obedience, parents, refusal skills, safety, shopping, siblings, transportation, travel

Somebody and the three blairs

Tolhurst, Marilyn

When the Blair family returns home one day, they find that someone or something has been there. Food is all over the floor, chairs are broken, and there is water all over the bathroom. Little do they know, the culprit is asleep in baby's bed!

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animals, baby, bear, cleanliness, confusion, curiosity, discovery, family, food, hunger, mischief, parents, sleep

A weekend with wendell

Henkes, Kevin

Wendell visits his friend Sophie and her family for a weekend. He spends most of his time terrorizing Sophie. She wants him to leave but by the end she finds that a weekend with him was not all that bad.

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bedtime, family, growing up, learning, mischief, peer resistance, stress management

David goes to school

Shannon, David

David is quite the mischievous student, full of energy and always keeping his teacher on her toes. His entertaining antics make it impossible not to enjoy him.

The red racer

Wood, Audrey

Being too embarrassed to ride her old bike, a little girl schemes to get a new bike. But her family works together to fix up her old bike without having to buy the new one.

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bicycle, biking, bully, compromise, cooperation, deception, dreams, embarrassment, exercise, family, mischief, parents, peer resistance, running, surprises

Good driving, amelia bedelia

Parish, Herman

Amelia Bedelia is a maid who is not quite together. She misunderstands everything she is told to do, always with hysterical results. What will happen if Mr. Rogers lets her test drive his car?

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adventures, birthday, car, celebration, challenges, conflict resolution, confusion, cow, decision making, farm, forgiveness, friendship, frustration, humor, literal interpretation, mischief, stress management, verbal communication

The cut-ups (Los bromistas)

Marshall, James

Spud Jenkins and Joe Turner are a couple of boys who have wild imaginations, create chaos through their neighborhood, help a girl get some toys and start off on the wrong foot with the assistant principal.

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car, chaos, curiosity, deception, imagination, misbehavior, mischief, neighbors, school, toys, transportation

The smallest cow in the world

Paterson, Katherine

A very mean cow named Rosie is sold by her owners. Five-year-old Marvin gets extremely upset when his parents move.

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animals, change, conflict resolution, coping, cow, family, farm, imagination, loneliness, mischief, moving, nonverbal communication, parents, refusal skills, sadness, security, siblings, verbal communication

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

Harriet, you'll drive me wild!

Fox, Mem

Harriet is a very busy little girl. She loves to play and be silly. When she makes messes in the house, her mother does not know what to do with her. Harriet spills her juice, drips paint on the floor, and dribbles jam on her pants. What will Harriet do next?How will her mom react?

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apology, cleanliness, conflict resolution, confusion, family, food, love, misbehavior, mischief, nonverbal communication, parents, patience, repetition, verbal communication

Wanted: Perfect parents

Himmelman, John

A boy dreams of perfect parents who would let him do whatever he would like to do. He tells a very wild story about what happens if he was in charge of the house

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cleanliness, family, fantasy, humor, hygiene, mischief, parents, storytelling

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