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You'll love this collection of stories featuring quirky, yet lovable family members. In "Translating Aunt Edna", three boys decide to play a trick on their aunt, who insists on teaching them new vocabulary words. The English language can be complicated - there are so many words that describe the same thing! You’ll discover many of them in this silly story about a group of siblings who decide they are sick of learning new words!

She was my "what if" girl. The one I longed for. The one I tried to find again after she left for the other side of the world. Now, years later, fate has swept the only woman I’ve ever loved back into my life. With her intensity, her honesty, her passion, Annalise tries to break down my walls, because she’s the one who knew me before my family shattered. When we collide again, it's tender and savage, gentle and rough, and makes me hungry for more of this electric, once-in-a-blue moon kind of connection.

Doodlebug, Cousin Rudyard, and their friend Tomiko compete in a memory test for a mystery prize.

Cousin Rudyard has lost his first tooth, but he's worried the tooth fairy won't visit unless he can find his tooth in time.

Dandelion is embarrassed to find out that her mother will the weeklong substitute teacher for her fourth grade class.

Doodlebug Pinkley tries to avoid a young admirer while he and his family stay at an ice hotel.

King Olaf of Sweden and King Olaf of Norway let the dice decide the new ruler of Hising Island.

A young Haida boy in the Pacific Northwest learns the importance of honoring the spirits of the salmon caught for food.

On a cold winter night, Tom, the night watchman, finds a stray kitten in the truck yard.

Follow the construction workers as they move from the ground up to build a skyscraper.

Beginning readers will love this collection of stories about kids discovering who they are. In "Someday", Ada dreams of becoming an inventor when she grows up. As she soon discovers, she is already looking for solutions to everyday problems. Also included are eight other stories of self-discovery: "Tall Enough", "Kojo's Shadow", "Sing Softer, Maggie", "If Henry Could Dance", "Wullus", "Shelby the Shy", Not Now, Natalie", and "Paint the Morning".

Your heart races, your chest tightens, and your voice feels unsteady whenever you face a crowd or even a simple conversation. Social anxiety convinces you that everyone notices your discomfort, and the harder you try to appear calm, the worse the spiral becomes. Vagus Nerve Training for Social Anxiety shows you how to break this cycle by working with your body instead of against it. The vagus nerve is the pathway that regulates your breath, heartbeat, and even the tone of your voice. When it is activated, you feel calm, grounded, and capable of connecting. When it is weak, anxiety takes over.

Enjoy this collection of origin folktales, also known as pourquoi stories, that explain why things are the way they are. In "Why Alligator Hates Dog", everyone respects M'su Cocodrie, the king of the swamp, except the dogs, who taunt him and make lots of noise.

Enjoy this collection of stories about children exploring the world around them. The collection begins with "Nature's Treasures", a poem featuring a young girl who learns about the wonders of the natural world. After this poem, enjoy eight short stories of children looking closer at nature: "Hidden Wonders", "The Building Season", "Weeds and Worms and Things that Squirm"," "A Pond for Maddie", "Flowers that Fly", "The Wasp's Picnic", "Firefly Tag", and "While Alena Was Sleeping".

School can be a tough place, filled with cliques and bullies. In this collection, discover how schoolkids learn to fit in - and discover who they are in the process. In "My Name's Not Chuck", Steve's classmates give him the nickname Chuck, but he doesn't like this at all. Find out how he can use his talking pet parrot to get them to stop calling him Chuck. Also included are six other stories about fitting in at school: "Ava the Big", "Blushing Blake", "The Tanner Mystery", "Super Tulip", "Hobby Friday", and "The Mystery of Sound."

Do you know how to ride a bike? How to write your name? How to zip up your jacket?

Stretching across the Great Plains, Tornado Alley has the perfect weather conditions for forming tornadoes.

Ferdinand Magellan's ideas were as big as the world. As it turned out, the world was bigger than he—and everyone else—thought.

Fire almost killed me in the summer of 1910. But it didn't, thanks to "Big Ed" Pulaski.

Every visitor of Yosemite National Park in California should say "thank you" to one man: John Muir.