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1) 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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Susan doesn't know why everything has to be the same in her life. Everyone eats the same thing for every meal, each day. All the clothing is the same, the haircuts are the same and with the exception of a few distinct features, there is no individuality. While conformity is the way that things are, she wonders what is would be like to be an individual and then takes action with some startling results.
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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...
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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.
6) 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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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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Aubrey is excited to have a tea party with all of her friends. As she runs down stairs to get the treats, she realizes that there isn't going to be enough to go around. She is worried that her guests will be upset. She knows that she needs to come up with a plan and fast.
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Nadia is a dust mite. She and her family have lived for as long as she can remember under the sofa in a cabin in the woods. Not too many people come to the cabin and Nadia has never been anywhere else but in the old cabin. She has also never met any other "people" of her own kind. They are the only family that lives in the cabin. One day the sofa is sold to a family who comes to collect it, loading it onto the back of a big truck and moving it into...
10) 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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Gabe is a shy young man who is routinely tormented by the school bully Marcus. On his way home after school one day, he decides to take a shortcut through the old farm on his way home. As he passes a well, he hears shouting coming from the well. Looking in, he can that Marcus is trapped in the bottom of the well. While he is very upset at the way he is treated by Marcus, he decides to do the right thing and gets the help of a grown up.
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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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Susie Sheep has never liked to share in the past. She wouldn't let others play with her toys or share her treats during lunch. When others shared, she would be the first person to step up and accept the goodies of others. However, in the park after school, she met a couple of kids who had nothing and learns about the power of sharing with others and how giving a little can make a significant difference in the lives of those without.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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...
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