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4) Little bear
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Little Bear's four adventures include taking a trip to the moon and having a birthday party.
5) Coming home
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Follows the emotions of a young boy as he waits at an airport for a family member to return home from serving in the military.
6) Hungry Jim
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Jim wakes up hungry, just not for the pancakes his mother is fixing--so his imagination takes over, and he pictures himself as a lion checking out the possibilities for breakfast (including his mother).
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"Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it's just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined....
11) Wing nut
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When twelve-year-old Grady and his mother relocate yet again, they find work taking care of an elderly man, who teaches Grady about cars, birds, and what it means to have a home.
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Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
13) Patchwork prince
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With fabric scrap treasures, a mother makes her son clothes fit for royalty.
14) Faraway things
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Secundo enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.
17) Mommy's hometown
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When a young boy and his mother travel to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined until he visits the river where she used to play and sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain.
18) Blueberry cake
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"There's nothing Little Bear loves more than delicious, delectable blueberries. And one of the very best ways to eat blueberries is in Mama's sweet, scrumptious blueberry cake. But when Little Bear goes to pick berries so Mama can fix him a treat, he can't resist eating them all! Can Little Bear figure out how to save some yummy blueberries, or will he once again come home empty handed and never get any blueberry cake?"--Provided by the publisher....
19) Ma Dear's aprons
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Young David Earl always knows what day of the week it is, because his mother, Ma Dear, has a different apron for every day except Sunday.
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"On a cold winter's eve, deep in the woods, a mother shrew frets about her sick young son. His head is cold and his feet are hot, and there is only one thing that can cure him: wild honey from the moon. Mother Shrew does not stop to wonder how she will make such an impossible journey. Instead, she grabs her trusty red umbrella, gives her darling son a kiss, and sets out into the unknown. Along the way, Mother Shrew encounters one obstacle after another,...