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The secret in the matchbox

Willis, Val

Dragons and secrets are two things every child loves to read about. Bobby wants someone with whom to share his secret. When his secret is finally let out...so is the dragon.

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conflict resolution, decision making, dragons, excitement, fear, feelings, mythical, peer resistance, refusal skills, verbal communication

Jess is afraid of losing her best friend Molly, because there is a new girl in her class. Jess becomes close with the new girl's turtles. It's not too long until Jess learns what a true friend is and that you can have more than one.

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animals, fear, feelings, friendship, happiness, jealousy, play, reptiles, sadness, school, turtle

A garden alphabet

Wilner, Isabel

In this alphabet garden, you will experience the process of planting a garden through spring, summer, and autumn. While tending to your garden, you may even meet a variety of animals that may lend a hand during the process.

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alphabet, amphibians, animals, autumn, cooperation, dedication, dog, food, frog, garden, nonverbal communication, nutrition, plants, rabbit, rain, seasons, spring, summer, sun, weather

April wilson's magpie magic: A tale of colorful mischief

Wilson, April

A child's drawing of a bird comes to life. The child and the bird draw with the coloring pencils to outsmart each other. (A Wordless Book).

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art, balloon, birds, body parts, colors, competition, conflict resolution, critical thinking, drawing, fantasy, fire, images, magic, magpie, nonverbal communication

Hobnob

Wilson, Christopher

Two brothers, Hob and Nob, live next door to each other and share everything. One day they have a disagreement over material things and they stop speaking. They finally realize it is not materials that are important, so their brotherly friendship is restored.

Mr. COOL

Wilson, Jacqueline

Mr. Cool gives a fresh perspective on friendship and accepting people for who they are. There is a focus on emotional and social health which is brought to light in a positive manner. Kids will gain a better view of acceptance of their peers and helping with self esteem. Mr. Cool's band develops health skills, friendship, and confidence as they perform.

Beware the dragons!

Wilson, S.

Tildy sets sail over Spooner Bay, being warned to beware of the dragons. When she encounters the dragons, she finds them friendly, and realizes that they only want to play. She decides to teach the town about the friendly dragons.

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assertiveness, bias, boat, community, conflict resolution, critical thinking, dragons, safety, stereotypes, teaching, transportation, travel, verbal communication

George hogglesberry grade school alien

Wilson, Sarah

When George begins a new school different from his old planet, he is worried he won't fit in. When the school play comes around, he thinks of a perfect costume to impress his classmates.

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acting, alien, body parts, celebration, differences, encouragement, fear, happiness, moon, play, relief, school, shyness, stars, surprises, uniqueness, worry

Sybil's night ride

Winnick, Karen B.

A brave girl takes a brave journey on a horse through the night. Find out how her brave actions helped America while at war with the British.

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adventures, america, animals, assertiveness, bravery, british, decision making, helping, history, horse, multicultural, nonverbal communication, patriotic, progress, war

The christmas tree ship

Winter, Jeanette

Captain Herman and his crew cut trees in Michigan to deliver to the city of Chicago for Christmas. When a blizzard forms over Lake Michigan, the Captain and his crew disappear. From then on, the Captain's wife and daughters carry out the Christmas Tree Ship tradition for many years.

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accidents, boat, bodies of water, business, careers, christmas, critical thinking, decision making, family, geography, holidays, lake, loss, love, missing, parents, plants, seasons, siblings, snow, teamwork, traditions, transportation, travel, verbal communication, weather, winter

Klara's new world

Winter, Jeanette

Klara's family struggled in Sweden so they moved to America. The long trip and struggles of leaving her home make her sad but with time she became very happy.

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assertiveness, change, conflict resolution, coping, critical thinking, decision making, feelings, goal setting, happiness, moving, multicultural, sadness, stress management, swedish, travel, verbal communication

Josefina

Winter, Jeanette

Josefina spends her whole life shaping soft clay into a story. She looks out at the world and makes what she sees until her story is complete.

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creativity, family, feelings, flowers, fun, happiness, imagination, love, nonverbal communication, sadness, storytelling, verbal communication

The bear and the fly

Winter, P.

The bear family is eating dinner when a fly interrupts them. The Papa tries to catch the fly but is unsuccessful until the fly flies out he window. (Wordless book).

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animals, bear, conflict resolution, coping, decision making, family, fly, food, goal setting, insects, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents

Penguin day

Winteringham, Victoria

Penguins are portrayed as being very similar to human beings. The penguins get up, play, laugh, make friends, eat, exercise, and sleep.

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animals, birds, celebration, climbing, excitement, exercise, feelings, food, fun, happiness, jumping, nonverbal communication, party, penguin, play, skating, walking

My teacher for president

Winters, Kay

Oliver writes a letter to the local news station to nominate his teacher for president in the next election. He thinks she meets the requirements because she signs important papers, likes white houses, goes to meetings, acts quickly in a crisis, is used to being followed around, wants peace, cares for people and the environment, goes on trips, and deals with the media. The only downfall is he doesnﾒt want her to leave before the end of the year.

Dumpy la rue

Winthrop, Elizabeth

Dumpy La Rue is a pig with a passion for dancing. All of the other animals, including his family, keep telling Dumpy that pigs can't dance. But Dumpy doesn't listen and soon all of the animals are dancing with him.

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animals, assertiveness, beliefs, birds, cow, dancing, determination, exercise, family, fox, french, fun, goat, goose, horse, language, learning, mule, music, passion, pig, rat, rhyme, sheep, turkey

I think he likes me

Winthrop, Elizabeth

Eliza's mother brings home her new baby brother. Eliza learns how to play with Andrew.

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baby, family, nonverbal communication, parents, play

Shoes

Winthrop, Elizabeth

There are different types of shoes for various purposes such as skating, swimming, walking, and skipping. We can do many fun activities in so many fun shoes -- especially with your own feet.

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body parts, bones, clothing, exercise, fishing, skating, skipping, swimming, walking

Sledding

Winthrop, Elizabeth

A young brother and sister are excited that the sledding hill is covered with snow. When they finally get dressed to go outside, they have fun with the other children sledding down the hill.

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clothing, exercise, play, seasons, sledding, snow, winter

Maggie and the monster

Winthrop, Elizabeth

Every night a monster comes into Maggie's room and messes it up. Maggie asks the monster what she wants and the monster tells Maggie that she is looking for her mother. Maggie helps the monster find her mother in the hall closet.

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bedtime, conflict resolution, family, helping, lost, mischief, monsters, night, nonverbal communication, parents, refusal skills, verbal communication

Bear and mrs. duck

Winthrop, Elizabeth

Nora loves Bear. They eat lunch, read stories, and sleep next to each other. Bear gets sick so Mrs. Duck comes to babysit. Bear and Mrs. Duck become friends.

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animals, bear, birds, caring, child care, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, duck, food, friendship, helping, illness, nutrition, reading, sharing, sleep, verbal communication

Whisper from the woods

Wirth, Victoria

A small seed falls into the woods. It grows into a beautiful tree and develops friendships with neighboring trees.

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animation, friendship, nonverbal communication, plants, seasons, snow, spring, storm, weather, wind, winter, woods

Little frightened tiger

Wisegard, Leonard//Mac Donald, Golden

A little tiger tries to deal with other animals in his habitat. His parents try to assure him that there is nothing to be afraid of. Eventually, he becomes a brave little tiger.

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animals, bravery, conflict resolution, coping, decision making, family, fear, feelings, growing up, parents, refusal skills, self esteem, tiger

Morris and boris at the circus

Wiseman, B.

Boris takes Morris to the circus where he tries to be an acrobat, a high wire walker, and a lion tamer. In the end, he finds out that he is best at being a clown.

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animals, careers, circus, clowns, conflict resolution, goal setting, gymnastics, lion, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

Morris the moose

Wiseman, B.

Morris thinks that every animal with four legs and a horn is a moose. The cow and deer disagree with him. When they all go to get a drink in the pond, they see that they are all different.

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animals, assertiveness, beverage, bodies of water, body image, conflict resolution, cow, decision making, deer, differences, food, moose, peer resistance, pond, verbal communication

Each one special

Wishinsky, Frieda

Henry, the baker, creates magnificent cakes. No two cakes are alike and his customers love the beautiful decorations. Henry's friend Ben visits Henry and watches him work each day after school. When the bakery is bought by new owners, Henry loses his job. Henry is sad when he can no longer decorate cakes, but only until Ben helps his friend find a new outlet for his creativity.

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art, birthday, bowling, business, careers, celebration, collection, conflict resolution, cowboys, creativity, feelings, fishing, flowers, food, friendship, golf, happiness, missing, recreation, sadness, technology, television, uniqueness, work

You're mean, Lily Jean

Wishinsky, Frieda

Sandy always plays with her little sister Carly, but when Lily Jean moves in next door, she has a new friend. Lily Jean never wants to include Carly and bosses her around. When Sandy stands up for her little sister, the three girls learn to play together nicely.

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activities, conflict resolution, decision making, feelings, friendship, frustration, games, gymnastics, moving, neighbors, peer resistance, playing, pretend, siblings

Tough cookie

Wisniewski, David

After discovering that his long time partner, Chips, has been eaten by Fingers, Tough Cookie travels to the Top of the Jar to find Fingers and put him away for good. Pecan Sandy shows how she can be a smart cookie in the end.

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adventures, body parts, bravery, challenges, community, confidence, conflict resolution, courage, death, feelings, food, friendship, humor, imagination, prejudice, problem solving, revenge, teamwork

Secret knowledge of grown-ups

Wisniewski, David

All those rules that grown-ups tell us aren't really true. Like why do you have to comb your hair or why can't you play with your food?Find out about several secret tricks that grown-ups use to get kids to do stuff. Do so quickly before any grown-ups find out that their secrets are being revealed.

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awareness, body parts, curiosity, discovery, food, health, humor, hygiene, mystery, nutrition, parents, play, responsibilities, secrets

The wave of the sea-wolf

Wisniewski, David

A young princess takes you on many adventures and helps you understand the value of presents.

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anticipation, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, day, decision making, excitement, family, fear, feelings, goal setting, mythical, nonverbal communication, presents, royalty, siblings, time, verbal communication

Elfwyn's saga

Wisniewski, David

A blind girl is born in the northern valley. Because she cannot see, she is blind to the curse in a great crystal. She destroys the crystal and restores her village from the curse.

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assertiveness, blindness, community, conflict resolution, coping, decision making, disability, five senses, handicap, heroism, nonverbal communication, refusal skills, verbal communication

Rain player

Wisniewski, David

A young boy must face repentance for disrespecting a god. The fate of the town lies in the young man's hands.

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community, coping, god, multicultural, religion, respect, responsibilities, stress management

The warrior and the wiseman

Wisniewski, David

Two sons of the emperor are in competition for the throne. One is a warrior who only thinks of himself, and the other is the wiseman who helps others. The wiseman ends up saving the kingdom and taking the throne.

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assertiveness, community, conflict resolution, critical thinking, family, helping, responsibilities, royalty, selfishness, siblings, verbal communication

Rainbow in the morning

Withers, C.//Jackson, A.

You will laugh and have fun with these jokes, riddles, limericks, and songs. Which one is your favorite?

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animals, exercise, humor, jumping, nonverbal communication, numbers, poetry, rhyme, song, stress management

The parrot tico tango

Witte, Anna

Set in a Rainforest of Costa Rica, greediness consumes a parrot named Tico Tango. However, what comes around goes around, and as Tico Tango finds out in this morally centered text, sometimes getting everything you want is not what you need.

The boy who hated valentine's day

Wittman, Sally

Ben hates Valentine's Day because he didn't get any Valentines at the party last year. He decides to forge Valentines from the students in his class to give some to himself, but he ends up giving them all to the new boy who didn't get any Valentines either.

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caring, conflict resolution, critical thinking, deception, decision making, feelings, goal setting, holidays, nonverbal communication, party, peer resistance, sadness, school, self esteem, valentine's day, verbal communication

A special trade

Wittman, Sally

When Nelly was a baby, Bartholomew would push her in her stroller and tell her stories. Now that he is in a wheelchair and she is older, she pushes him around.

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aging, baby, change, coping, disability, friendship, growing up, handicap, happiness, helping, illness, play, self esteem, sharing, storytelling, verbal communication

If a dolphin were a fish

Wlodarski, Loran

A dolphin imagines that she is a fish, a turtle, a bird, an octopus, a shark, and a manatee. Learn how special she really is and how special each of her other sea animal friends are too.

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acceptance, author's note, birds, bodies of water, dolphin, fish, habitat, hearing, ocean, octopus, reptiles, shark, smell, turtle

The marvelous mud washing machine

Wolcott, P.

A young boy has fun playing in the mud until his mother calls him for dinner. He finds a machine to clean him up.

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cleanliness, conflict resolution, family, food, hygiene, machines, parents, play, verbal communication

Her book

Wolf, Janet

From the time she gets up in the morning until the time she goes to bed, a little girl interacts with her belongings, family and friends.

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day, family, friendship, morning, nonverbal communication, parents, routine, siblings

Christmas with grandfather

Wolf, Winfried

After the death of his father, Thomas is not looking forward to Christmas. Christmas at his grandfather's house in the country changes that when Thomas receives a special gift.

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animals, change, christmas, coping, death, deer, family, grandparents, holidays, horse, loss, presents, snow

Only the cat saw

Wolff, Ashley

While everyone else is busy, the cat sees beautiful sights. When the cat falls asleep, Amy sees the beautiful sights, too.

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animals, beauty, cat, five senses, nonverbal communication, responsibilities, sight, stress management, vision

A year of beasts

Wolff, Ashley

Let's view a monthly listing of animals around a farm.

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animals, autumn, beaver, cow, deer, farm, fox, mice, month, porcupine, rabbit, raccoon, seasons, sequence, skunk, spring, squirrel, summer, winter, woodchuck

Stella and roy

Wolff, Ashley

Stella and Roy's little brother have a race with their scooter and tricycle to the popcorn stand. Stella thinks that she is so fast that she can stop and look around at everything during the race. Who do you think wins the race?

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animals, bicycle, biking, birds, competition, crocodile, dog, exercise, fish, food, frog, goal setting, goose, horse, nutrition, plants, reptiles, running, seasons, sharing, skating, spring, transportation, turtle

On halloween night

Wolff, Ferida

An adventurous travel through Halloween night which uses thirteen holiday objects such as crows, witches, and bats describe the scary evening.

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adventures, birds, counting, ghosts, halloween, holidays, moon, night, nonverbal communication, numbers, owl, sounds, traditions, witches

Seven loaves of bread

Wolff, Ferida

Milly bakes seven loaves of bread each morning. She shares it with all the barnyard animals. When Milly gets sick, Rose takes over the baking and tries to take some shortcuts. However, she finds out that in the long run, it's easier to bake seven loaves of bread.

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animals, food, illness, nutrition, preparation

Tallulah in the Kitchen

Wolff, Nancy

Tallulah the cat loves to make pancakes for her friends. She describes the process of cooking pancakes from buying the ingredients to eating them! And the step by step she goes through her recipe.

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animals, cat, cooking, decision making, dog, food, friendship, nutrition, pig, recipe, 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.

The toll-bridge troll

Wolff, Patricia Rae

Everyday on his walk to school, Trigg must cross the toll bridge where a mean troll lives. The troll will not let Trigg pass, so Trigg must think of ways to outsmart the troll.

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bridge, conflict resolution, critical thinking, frustration, goal setting, learning, money, problem solving, repetition, riddles, school, trick, trolls

Little mouse's painting

Wolkstein, D.

Little mouse paints a picture and her friends Bear, Squirrel, and Porcupine all see their images in it. Mouse tells them that they are seeing things, but when she takes the painting home she sees it from a new perspective.

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animals, art, bear, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, differences, friendship, mouse, porcupine, self esteem, squirrel, verbal communication

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