Diane De Groat
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 1
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Anastasia's tenth year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.
47) Lola the elf
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With a hat and sack from her dress-up box, Lola the opossum decides to be an elf and help everyone get ready for Christmas, but the results aren't exactly what she'd hoped for.
49) Our Thanksgiving
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A family experiences the joy and excitement of Thanksgiving Day, as relatives arrive and everyone gives thanks for the feast on hand. Includes game cards and related activities.
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When their mother starts to date the mystery man on the fifth floor who has been instructed by his agent to "eliminate the children" by the first of May, eleven-year-old Caroline and her older brother figure they're targeted to be the victims of a savage crime.
53) Anna on the Farm
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Anna is thrilled when she receives an invitation to leave hot, sticky Baltimore and visit her aunt and uncle on their farm, where she'll be able to go barefoot, swim in the pond, and drink fresh-squeezed lemonade. But when she arrives, she's greeted by an unpleasant surprise: her uncle's nephew, Theodore, who delights in teasing her mercilessly about her city ways. Anna refuses to let Theodore get the best of her, though, and in a series of suspenseful
...57) Sunshine Home
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When he and his parents visit his grandmother in the nursing home where she is recovering from a broken hip, everyone pretends to be happy until Tim helps them express their true feelings.
58) Pots and pans
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Rhyming text imitates Baby finding pots, pans, lids, and cans in the kitchen.
60) Itchy Richard
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Second graders and their teacher experience an outbreak of head lice. A sensitive story about the social implications of head lice. Most of the children in Richard's second-grade class have heard of head lice, and some of them have contracted them. Richard is mortified to discover that he may have the itchy creatures in his own hair (he doesn't). With the support of family and a neat teacher, Mrs. Zookey (even her name is cool), Richard and his friends...