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Beezy and Funnybone Beezy is back for another set of adventures! As this easy chapter book opens, Funnybone is learning how to fetch, but he carries the new game a bit too far. In the next escapade, Beezy and her classmates search for the meaning of the word "spat. Not until Funnybone digs up the garden do they learn from Gran that a "spat" is a baby snail. In the last chapter, the pup takes an unexpected trip in a hot-air balloon when he accompanies Beezy to her friend's birthday party. |
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Beezy at Bat In the first chapter, Beezy, her Gran, and neighbor Mr. Gumm spend a summer evening "cracking" riddles as they crack nuts. In the second story, Beezy and Merlin are picking blackberries when they are scared by…a snake! The third chapter finds Beezy and her pals playing baseball with a right fielder on a unicycle. And look out…she has a shark mitt! |
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Beezy Magic In three easy to read stories, Beezy learns how she got her funny nickname. Gran tells Beezy and her friend Merlin a trickster tale about a clever rabbit who outsmarts a panther. Beezy’s dog Funnybone jumps into a bake shop window to eat some Key Lime Pie. |
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Beezy Read about Beezy's life in Florida, talking with her grandmother and Mr. Gumm, playing baseball with friends like Merlin and Sarafina, and finding a stray dog she names Funnybone. Henry and Mudge, move over! |
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Tundra Mouse: A Storyknife Tale In southwestern Alaska, a Yup'ik girl tells her sister a storyknife tale, drawing pictures with the tip of a knife in mud or snow. She tells of Tundra Mouse, who made an amazing journey from a feather-lined nest in a tunnel of snow all the way to Grandmother's kitchen. |
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My House Has Stars No matter where we are in the world, we are all under the stars. In this poetic take on geography, children describe the homes they live in under the stars: Sergio on the 17th floor of a Brazilian skyscraper, Carmen on a boat in the Philippines, Chili in the southwestern United States. |
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Insects Are My Life Amanda loves bugs so much that she hatches praying mantis eggs in her sock drawer, collects dragonfly wings, and practices walking on all fours like an ant. When Victor leaves a spider on her seat at school, she whips out her magnifying glass to identify it. "Bug eyes!" Victor calls her. But she can't help herself, because she's Amanda Frankenstein, friend of bugs. |
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The Bridge to Nowhere Laid off from his job building bridges two years ago, Hallie's father is like a stranger in the house. She misses the man she used to be able to talk to, the man who could make her laugh. She knows the stranger she and Crane saw up there on the bridge is him. And Hallie runs away. |
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The Great Pumpkin Switch Grampa tells a story about a time when horse-drawn carts were just beginning to give way to automobiles, when a neighbor's backyard held a hungry pig, and when boys could as easily be called upon to stir a simmering pot of apple butter as to clean up a fallen tree. |
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Whoo-oo Is It? Strange sounds in the barn stir Mother Owl awake. What could it be? A mouse? A dog? She flies out into twilight and back in at night to search. |
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The Potato Man Grampa tells a story about the one-eyed potato man, who used to ride his horse-drawn wagon down East Street, selling fruits and vegetables. As a boy, Grampa was too scared to buy anything from him but not too scared to throw things at the back of his wagon. And he was in trouble when word got back to his mother. |
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Is This a House for Hermit Crab? No matter where we are in the world, we are all under the stars. In this poetic take on geography, children describe the homes they live in under the stars: Sergio on the 17th floor of a Brazilian skyscraper, Carmen on a boat in the Philippines, Chili in the southwestern United States. |
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