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Nobody asked me if I wanted a little sister

Alexander, Martha

Oliver's new baby sister gets a lot of attention and he feels neglected. He tries to give his sister away, but realizes that she wants to be with him. Oliver discovers that he will have a playmate when she is a little older.

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acceptance, baby, change, conflict resolution, coping, family, jealousy, love, siblings

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

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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assertiveness, community, conflict resolution, deception, decision making, food, nutrition, party, peer resistance, robbery, verbal communication

Nobody wants a nuclear war

Vigna, Judith

A mother discovers that her son and daughter have built a shelter in case of a nuclear attack. She explains to them about World War II, and how people are trying to keep the world a peaceful place to live.

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conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, goal setting, history, peace, preparation, self esteem, shelter, stress management, verbal communication, war

Nobody's cat

Miles, Miska

An alley cat goes on an adventure to different places. He has a few fights, finds some food and then goes home again.

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adventures, animals, assertiveness, cat, discovery, feelings, fight, food, loneliness, nonverbal communication, stress management, travel

Nobody's perfect, not even my mother

Simon, Norma

Everyone is good at some things, but no one is good at everything. No one can do everything perfectly. People can be wonderful just the same.

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acceptance, differences, disappointment, family, learning, love, parents, patience, performance, self esteem

Noel for jeanne-marie

Francoise.

A young girl shares the traditions of Christmas with her pet lamb.

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animals, christmas, french, friendship, holidays, multicultural, sheep, traditions

Noggin and the whale

Postgate, Oliver

Noggin gives presents to all the boys and girls on his birthday. When they play their music on the boat, a whale wants to join in. Noggin makes him an instrument, so everyone is happy.

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animals, birthday, boat, celebration, conflict resolution, critical thinking, fishing, holidays, instruments, music, nonverbal communication, song, transportation, verbal communication, whale

Noise in the night

Alexander, Anne

Sherri realizes one night that she does not like the noises that she hears in the darkness. Her parents try to come up with many alternatives so that she is not afraid any more. Finally, she tries to think of all the noises as friendly noises.

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conflict resolution, critical thinking, family, fear, night, noise, parents, sleep

Noisy book

Brown, Margaret Wise

A dog gets something in his eye, so they have to cover both eyes with a bandage. The dog has to use his ears to sense what is going on.

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animals, appreciation, blindness, change, conflict resolution, dog, five senses, illness, sympathy

Noisy gander

Miles, Miska

A gosling spends the day with his father, not understanding why his father honks so loudly. That evening, the loud honking saves many farm animals from being surprised by a coyote attack. The gosling understands the value of the honking and hopes to someday emulate it.

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animals, birds, conflict resolution, coyote, critical thinking, curiosity, family, goose, love, peer resistance, stress management, surprises, uniqueness

Noisy nancy norris

Gaeddert, Lou Ann

The Norris family is instructed by their landlady to quiet their noisy daughter Nancy, or else be evicted from the neighborhood.

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assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, disobedience, family, goal setting, neighbors, noise, parents, verbal communication

Noisy Nora (Julieta, estate quieta)

Wells, Rosemary

Nora is always waiting as her parents take care of her siblings, Jack and Kate. To get some attention she decides to knock over and even bring things in the house. Finally, after they tell her to hush, she decides to leave. Will the family notice her absence?

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aggression, animals, attention, baby, bedtime, behavior, books, communication, disappearance, emotions, family, five senses, frustration, jealousy, loneliness, misbehavior, misunderstanding, mouse, noise, nonverbal communication, parents, persistence, rhyme, sadness, siblings, worry

Noorman the doorman

Freeman, Don

A creative mouse is a doorman for the museum. He gives tours all day long. He places his mouse trap art in the sculpture contest and wins first prize.

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animals, appreciation, art, careers, mouse

Nora's ark

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie

As the rain keeps coming, the flood gros larger. Everyone in town goes to Grandma's house because it sits high on a hill. Along with many animals, everyone, except Grandpa, is there. Grandma and Wren are worried about Grandpa so they head out to try and save him from the flood.

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animals, cat, chicken, cow, critical thinking, decision making, duck, family, farm, flood, goal setting, grandparents, horse, pig, rain, rescue, stress management, verbal communication, weather

Nora's duck

Ichikawa, Satomi

Nora finds a duckling who had fallen out of its nest. Nora took the duckling to Dr. John, so he could help the injured duckling. At Dr. John's, Nora finds herself surrounded by animals.

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animals, assertiveness, birds, cat, conflict resolution, doctor, dog, duck, helping, sheep, verbal communication

Norma jean, jumping bean

Cole, Joanna

Norma Jean is a kangaroo who always jumps. She did so even at inappropriate times. Her friends got mad at her, so she decided to no longer jump. Then her friends noticed her change and missed the old Norma Jean. Finally, Norma Jean learns there is a time and place for jumping.

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animals, assertiveness, change, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, exercise, friendship, jumping, kangaroo, nonverbal communication, self esteem, verbal communication

Nosey gilbert

Pizer, Abigail

Gilbert, the dog, is intrigued by a loud buzzing noise and decides to investigate. A bee stings him on the nose, so he must visit the vet.

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animals, bee, conflict resolution, curiosity, dog, friendship, garden, injury, insects, self esteem

Nosey mrs. rat

Allen, Jeffrey//Marshall, James

Mrs. Rat is always spying on her neighbors. One day, she finds out someone is spying on her and the tables are turned.

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animals, assertiveness, critical thinking, decision making, feelings, goal setting, mouse, peer resistance, refusal skills, revenge

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

Not norman: A goldfish story

Bennett, Kelly

When a boy gets Norman, a goldfish, for his birthday he is disappointed. He wants an energetic pet with which to run and play. He makes a plan to take Norman back to the pet store and get another pet. After show and tell at school, he decides to keep him. Norman likes his music and makes him laugh; besides any other pet just wouldnﾒt be the same, they would not be Norman.

Not so fast songololo

Daly, Niki

A grandmother and her grandson go for a trip into the city. The young boy looked at a new pair of shoes and wanted them. Although the grandmother had little money, she managed to save enough so she could buy him the shoes.

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clothing, decision making, family, grandparents, nonverbal communication, poverty, travel

Not the piano, mrs. medley

Levine, Evan

A grandmother and grandson go the beach together. The grandmother against her grandson's wishes, deems it necessary to bring just about everything -- just in case. Finally when they end up at the beach, they realize that they have everything except their bathing suits.

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beach, bodies of water, clothing, decision making, disobedience, family, grandparents, patience, preparation, recreation, refusal skills

Nothing

Inkpen, Mick

A little stuffed animal is left behind when a family moves to a bigger house. During the toy's journey to finding his owner, he encounters the family cat who takes him to his new home.

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animals, attention, baby, cat, change, fox, frog, grandparents, identification, lost, mouse, moving, sewing, toys, travel, verbal communication

Nothing at all!

Cazet, Denys

It's a morning on the farm with the animals waking for the day and the scarecrow quietly watching from the field. It's quiet on the farm until he gets a mouse inside of him.

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animals, birds, cat, chicken, cow, dog, farm, horse, morning, mouse, nutrition, scarecrows, sheep, verbal communication

Nothing ever happens on 90th street

Schotter, Roni

Eva sits on her building's steps to write about things she knows. She knows that nothing ever happens on 90th street, but her neighbors help her to write a wonderful story.

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actor, baby, bicycle, cat, fish, food, helping, imagination, love, market, neighbors, nutrition, perspective, rescue, restaurant, truth, writing

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

Nothing to do

Hoban, Russell

Walter is bored, so his father gives him a magic stone that will make him think of fun activities when rubbed. However, after Walter loses the stone, he realizes that he is capable of entertaining himself. He gives his sister a magic stick so she will stop bothering him.

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boredom, critical thinking, family, imagination, imitation, magic, parents, play, recreation, siblings

Nouns and verbs have a field day

Pulver, Robin

Mr. Wright’s class has a field day away from school! While the children are gone, the nouns and verbs want to play. At first, the nouns make teams with other nouns and the verbs make teams with other verbs. Both sides found out that they had to work together so the nouns formed teams with the verbs and the verbs formed teams with the nouns. They continued to play many games until Mr. Wright’s students came back from field day.

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activities, adventures, cartoons, creativity, games, language, learning, literacy, relationship, school, signs, support, teaching, teamwork, writing

Nova's ark

Kirk, David

A young robot turns a field trip to space into a quest for his father when his stolen ship crashes. He makes new friends and finds his father as well as an alternative source of energy.

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animals, bat, birds, cat, critical thinking, deer, dog, exploration, family, friendship, future, hedgehog, hummingbird, iguana, inventions, kangaroo, monkey, moose, mouse, parents, planet, robot, spider, stress management, technology, travel, turkey

Now everybody really hates me

Martin, James Rows//Marx, Patrick

Sister has a fight with her brother. She goes to her bedroom and threatens never to come out again. She thinks about how she will live in her room.

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assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, family, goal setting, self esteem

Now I will never leave the dinner table

Martin, Jane Read//Marx, Patricia

Patty Jane's older sister Joy is perfect in everyway. She even likes to prepare and eat spinach. Patty Jane, however, refuses to eat spinach. Joy will not let Patty Jane leave the table until she eats a bite of spinach. In protest, Patty Jane plots how to make Joy leave the house.

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aggression, anger, assertiveness, conflict resolution, family, feelings, food, forgiveness, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, persistence, preparation, refusal skills, siblings

Now I'm big

Miller, Margaret

Six children share pictures of themselves when they were babies. They describe the things that they used to do for fun and compare it to all of the things they can do now - all by themselves.

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accomplishment, bedtime, change, comparisons, growing up, learning, nonverbal communication, photograph, self esteem

Now let me fly

Johnson, Dolores

A family moves from Africa to America. They suffer hardships in anticipation of a different future.

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african american, assertiveness, change, coping, family, feelings, grief, moving, multicultural, parents, peer resistance, sadness, self esteem, separation, slavery, stress management, travel

Now one foot, now the other

dePaola, Tomie

Bobby loves to hear his grandfather tell the story of how he taught Bobby to walk. When his grandfather suffers from a stroke, Bobby teaches his grandfather how to walk.

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change, conflict resolution, coping, family, goal setting, grandparents, growing up, helping, illness, nonverbal communication, storytelling, teaching, walking

Number nine duckling

Akass, Susan

Eight of Delushka's nine eggs have hatched. The ninth duckling is scared to come out and needs his mother's help. After he emerges from his shell, he lags behind his siblings due to his fears. All of the farm animals encourage him until he can catch up and join his family.

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animals, confidence, conflict resolution, duck, encouragement, family, fear, fly, goal setting, goat, helping, horse, jumping, parents, patience, siblings

Numbers

Reiss, John J

Numbers are everywhere!There are 6 birthday candles, 13 cakes, 14 bananas, 15 grapefruit and 19 radishes. Counting is fun if you do it with food.

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colors, counting, food, numbers, nutrition, sequence

Nutcracker noel

McMullan, Kate

Noel has always dreamed of being in a real ballet. When her teacher announces they will perform the Nutcracker, she is very excited -- until she learns that she will be a tree. Then she finds this better than her dream.

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christmas, confidence, dancing, dreams, exercise, feelings, goal setting, holidays, performance, practice, sadness, self esteem, verbal communication

Nutik, the wolf pup

Gearge, Jean

As Eskimo girl brings a sickly wolf pup home to her brother who cares for it until it's old enough to rejoin the pack. The two grow close, so when it is time for the pup to leave, they can't say good-bye.

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animals, caring, companion, conflict resolution, courage, decision making, family, feelings, multicultural, native american, nonverbal communication, parents, pets, sadness, show, siblings, storytelling, weather, wolf

Nutshell library

Sendak, Maurice

Experience this set of four tiny books, each with its own individual message through the use of rhyme, illustrations, numbers, and the alphabet.

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alligator, alphabet, apathy, autumn, behavior, calendar, caring, counting, decision making, feelings, misbehavior, month, nonverbal communication, numbers, seasons, stress management, summer, variety, winter

Oasis of the stars

Economakis, Olga

A desert family has to move constantly to be near a water supply. The young son of the family decides he is tired of moving. Using ingenuity, he digs a hole until he hits water. The family builds a well and the boy has his wish granted.

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assertiveness, bodies of water, conflict resolution, desert, determination, family, goal setting, hard work, nature, self esteem, travel

Obadiah the bold

Turkle, Brinton

This is a story about a Quaker boy who wants to be a pirate. After learning about his grandfather, who was brave in an honest way, Obadiah changes his mind and wants to be a noble sailor.

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assertiveness, bravery, careers, change, critical thinking, family, goal setting, grandparents, growing up, nonverbal communication, pirates, quakers, religion, verbal communication

Ocean hide and seek

Kramer, Jennifer Evans

The ocean is an old, old place, and the exotic animals in the depths have learned to adapt to their surroundings. Can you find the creatures hidden on every page?

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activities, adaptation, animals, colors, crab, fish, habitat, jellyfish, ocean, sand, shark

Ocean seasons

Hirschi, Ron

Seasons change in the ocean much as they do on land: spring brings new plants and baby animals; summer oceans are aglow with sparkly plankton lights; and autumn winds blow across the open water. In winter, the humpback whales migrate to warmer waters, just as some land animals move to warmer climates. Learn about plants and animals that are joined through the mix of seasons, food webs and habitats beneath the waves. While set in the Pacific, similar changes occur in all the worldﾒs oceans.

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autumn, baby, birth, bodies of water, change, crab, crustaceans, fish, habitat, ocean, otter, plants, sea, seal, seasons, shrimp, spring, summer, whale, winter

Octavia and her purple ink cloud

Rathmell, Donna//Rathmell, Doreen

Octavia Octopus and her sea-animal friends love playing camouflage games to practice how they would hide from a ﾓbig, hungry creature.ﾔ Octavia, however, just cannot seem to get her colors right when she tries to shoot her purple ink cloud. What happens when the big, hungry shark shows up looking for his dinner? Learn your basic colors along with the camouflage techniques of various sea animals, and you'll be on your way to being a marine biologist!

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accomplishment, bodies of water, careers, feelings, fish, friendship, frustration, ocean, octopus, plants, practice, protection, relief, reptiles, stress management, turtle

Octo Annie: Home-help super star

Ullrich, Nai D.

Octo Annie, an octopus, lives in a great big glass tank at Underwater World until one day she becomes part of a real family. The Martin family of two parents, two sons, and two pets are all surprised by their new addition, Octo-Annie. With Octo-Annie's eight arms, the Martin family's move to a new house is accomplished. But something and someone is left behind...

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animals, body parts, car, cat, dog, family, golf, helping, moving, numbers, octopus, sports, swimming, telephone, transportation, treasure, truck

Odd velvet

Whitcomb, Mary E.

Velvet is different from all her other classmates. After thinking she is quite odd, that students decide she's not reall that different after all. They admire Velvet's picture of an apple and love going to her unique birthday party.

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art, birthday, celebration, collection, creativity, differences, dolls, envy, flowers, food, friendship, imagination, jealousy, party, plants, presents, pretend, rocks, school, teaching, uniqueness, volcano

Of course a goat

Bornstein, Ruth

A boy wants a goat so he asks his mother where he can find one. He has to climb a mountain and describes what he will do and see on his journey and how he will bring the goat back home where his mother will be waiting.

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animals, communication, critical thinking, family, goat, imagination, mountains, pets, travel, verbal communication

Off to school, baby duck!

Hest, Amy

It's baby ducks first day of school and she's a little bit nervous. Mr. and Mrs. Duck tell her to be brave because she's going to have so much fun. They hurry off to school and meet Grandpa duck on the way who gives baby duck the confidence she needs for the first day. Baby duck happily goes off to school with her new friend Dary Duck.

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animals, assertiveness, birds, bravery, courage, duck, family, fear, feelings, food, friendship, grandparents, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, preparation, school, self esteem, shyness, song, sounds, teaching

Off to the sweet shores of Africa: And other talking drum rhymes

Unobagha, Uzo

African-inspired nursery rhymes.

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africa, animals, beach, birds, bodies of water, camel, cattle, celebration, chicken, community, cooking, desert, dog, donkey, eagle, elephant, fable, fish, fruit, giraffe, goat, grasshopper, instruments, lion, mice, monkey, multicultural, music, ocean, parade, play, rainbow, rhyme, rhythm, river, sand, song, tree, village, zebra

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