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1) Boris Has a Change Of Heart: Children's Books and Bedtime Stories For Kids Ages 3-8 for Good Morals
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Boris is a 12 year old boy from Boston who has been sent to stay with his Grandparents in England for the Summer Holidays. Somewhat of a troublemaker at school, Boris has a surly and nasty personality that has been getting him in to trouble with his classmates and teachers.
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Steve is on a round the world sailing trip with his family in their sail yacht. Steve comes from an unconventional family. His parents like to teach the children alternative ways of living, and focus more on experience building than a regular education. Steve is with his two younger sisters and two adult parents. As we progress, Steve meets two separate tribes on the island.
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On her way home from school, Cassie sees that someone posted a sign that says that they're looking for a lost parrot. The parrot's original owners said that they would give seven hundred dollars to the person who found it. Cassie tries to get her friends Jane and Anna to help her find the parrot. Anna thinks they shouldn't take the parrot back to the owners since she knows the owners don't treat the parrot well. Jane thinks they should return the...
4) Alex`s Big Adventure: Children's Books and Bedtime Stories For Kids Ages 3-8 for Fun Life Lessons
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Alex is a young boy who had dreamed of an adventure. After a fight with his mother that results in him getting grounded, he decides to take off into the wilderness and explore the mysteries that it holds. While it seemed like a magical journey at first, all he can think about is how he misses his family and how much more fun it would be if they were actually there with him. Deciding to head on back, he learns one of the most valuable lessons out there....
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Cassie moves from the city into the home of her Nana. Her parents are off to attend to the rainforests in South America. They often send her odd gifts and notes about how important it is to follow her heart and to protect the plants and animals around her. Cassie explores the meadow. She makes friends with the animals and learns the names of the plants. She is haunted by a face she finds, looking up at her from the pond. Although it looks just like...
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Joey is one of the kids that everyone likes. He is pleasant, social and people are easily drawn to him. One day, he finds a group of older students who are picking on a younger student that is crying in the middle of the circle. The other kids ask Joey to step in and to help tease the other kid with them. Joey doesn't want to lose his popularity, but also doesn't want to tease the smaller child. He makes a difficult decision that has some very surprising...
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Rocky has just moved into the area and made friends with Jacob, a quiet, reserved boy who was never part of the popular crowd. Rocky, on the other hand, craves to be part of the popular crowd and will do anything to prove that he is worthy. Bernard, the captain of the school football team gives Rocky all sorts of 'tests' to see if he is fit to be part of the popular crowd and eventually join the football team. One week it's a bike race around 'dead...
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Shella decides to pull a prank on her friends down the by the riverone summer evening. When does it, she ends up making a mess and hurting the feelings of some of her friends in the process. She accidentally breaks the beaver's dam and this washes away the lily pads that the frog enjoys. It also changes the depths of the water, upsetting the fish in the area.
9) Travis Tries Something New: Children's Books and Bedtime Stories For Kids Ages 3-8 for Early Reading
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Travis enjoys his nightly chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese. When he sits down at the dinner table one night, he finds that his favorite foods are not on his plate. Instead, there are things he never has tried before and he isn't very happy about this at all. Looking around, he tries to barter with his siblings so he doesn't have to try something new.
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Jessie has spent the better part of the school year perfectly coloring and placing stickers on her favorite pencil box. But on the one of the last few day of school, she finds that her beloved pencil box is missing from her desk. Frantic, she does all she can to figure out where the missing box has went.
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James has been waiting all year to go to the fair. He loved the rides and the delicious food. But when he loses his parents in the crowd, he finds that the fair can be a very overwhelming place. Knowing that he needs to be brave, he seeks out the help of others to find his missing parents in an adventure that takes him through the park. Along the way he makes some new friends who help him to calm down.
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Kevin is an avid fan of mysteries and when dining with his family in the local diner, he finds that there isn't any ketchup in the bottle on his table to put on his French fries. He calls to the waiter who comes over and is surprised to find it is empty. Going around, the waiter claims that all of the bottles are empty.
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Robin and Harper are cousins who grew up on detective fiction and TV shows. Inspired by British books about investigator kids, they decide to start their own detective crew. They begin recruiting from their group of friends, although the pool of people interested shrinks significantly after they all find out that Robin and Harper are serious and not just organizing a lunchtime game. They eventually recruit Oppie, a boy from their school who while...
14) Dianne and the Disappearing Soccer Ball: Children's Books and Bedtime Stories For Kids Ages 3-11
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Diane loves soccer and has a lucky ball of her own. When the coach calls her into the office, Diane forgets to bring her ball with her. When she comes back out, she finds that the ball is missing and she knows that she needs to solve the mystery before it is too late.
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Quinn is sitting in the classroom ready to take her test, when she notices that one of her classmates changed their trademark bow during recess. Not paying too close attention, she goes on to take her test. Later in the day, she hears the teacher mention to the classmate that is once again wearing the correct bow from earlier in the day that these were the best test results she has seen in a long time from the student.
16) The Special Gift
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Three friends, Charlie, Jake and Abbie meet in the park by the picnic tables every week at the same time to play a pretend game in which each of them is a hero. A group of bullies, Sam, Clint, Howie and Jessica start showing up just after the friend get there to harass them and threaten to beat them up. The friends are afraid of them and leave early. Each week, they hope the bullies go away but instead, they get worse. One week, the friend get to...
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Sally is playing by herself near some bushes on a playground when she overhears two students that are talking about hurting another student. The other kids sound angry and Sally begins to wonder if she should tell an adult about what she heard. She doesn't want the other kids to get mad at her for telling on them, so she isn't sure about what to do. Ultimately, she does make the right decision, even though it is a difficult one.
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While on a family camping trip, Hunter, who is eleven years old, is told to keep a close eye on his five year old brother, Ashton. Ashton sees a small animal and follows it. Just before he loses sight of him, Hunter calls out to Ashton but is ignored. Hunter chases after Ashton as he keeps following one small animal after another for several hours. When the sun starts to go down, the boys realize they don't know where they are or which direction to...
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Thelma the Toucan, Steve the Seagull and Violet the Vulture all meet at the top of the tallest tree in the forest. Each of them looks the others over, under the assumption that they are different and better than the others because they have different features. What they find out is that beyond the physical attributes, talents and what they eat, they each are an important and beyond their subtle differences they are the same in a lot of other ways....
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Bart wakes up in the morning and realizes he is out of his favorite cereal. On his way to school, it rains and he ends up soaked walking. In the classroom, he realizes he forgot his homework and at lunch his pizza didn't have a lot of cheese, on his way home, he loses his favorite ball. Each time something bad happens, it is followed by something good. But Bart focuses on the bad, until his Mother talks to him at the end and has him look back over...
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