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9.27.25 - Part 2 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Rei's Children's Story Hour as a
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  Reminder is a reading service intended for people who are
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  blind or of other disabilities that make it difficult to
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  read printed material. Today we will be reading from various
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  books on the season fall. Your reader today is Diane.
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  We will begin with a book We Gather Together, celebrating
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  the harvest season. It was published by Children's Books, a
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  division of Penguin on Readers Group. It has a copyright
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  year of two thousand and six and it was written
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  by Wendy Pfeiffer. During early autumn in the northern part
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  of the Earth, chipmunks packed their cheeks full of seeds
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  to store in underground burrows. Red fox pups hunt for
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  rodents and fruit to eat, then bury the leftovers to
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  dig up when food is scarce. Beavers store twigs and
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  sticks underwater to chew when ice covers their pond. As
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  the sun appears lower in the southern sky each day,
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  the sun rises later each morning and sets earlier each evening.
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  Days grow shorter, the night's cooler, and the growing season ends.
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  Time to prepare for winter. Blackberr's gobble honey, grubs, fruits
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  and roots, building layers the fat for the cold days ahead.
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  People pick purple grapes, yellow squash, orange pumpkins, and crisp
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  red apples. They hust corn, gather nuts, rape cranberries, and
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  enjoy the harvest season. But today there's little need for
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  them to stockpile food for winter, as the animals do. Ships,
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  trucks and cargo planes transport it from parts of the
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  world where fruits and vegetables are still growing. When it's
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  winter in the northern hemisphere, food is brought in from
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  the southern hemisphere, where it's summer. Fall equal Knox day
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  and night equal fall, nights longer than days, day's gaining
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  sh shorter time to harvest. Winter, so the shortest day
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  with the least sunshine, Winter nights longer than days, days
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  getting longer. Spring is coming spring equinox day and night
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  equal spring days longer than nights, days getting longer, seedling sprite,
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  Summer saltiest, the longest day with the most sunshine, Summer
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  days longer than nights, days getting shorter. Crops grow. Different
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  seasons are caused by the tilt of the earth as
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  it moves around the sun. When the northern part of
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  the earth tilts, towards the sun, the north gets lots
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  of sunshine and it's summer there. When another wind the
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  northern part of the Earth tilts away from the sun,
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  the north gets less sunshine and its winter. Between summer
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  and winter. Around September twenty first, the sun crosses the
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  equator and shines equally on both the northern and southern
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  parts of the Earth. On that day, in the northern
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  part of the world, summer ends autumn begins. Day and
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  night have equal hours all over the world. For many,
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  the autumnal equinogue signals a time to harvest crops. Each
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  crop has its own growing season. Most ceilings sprout with
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  the cool spring rain and thrive under the warm summer sun.
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  Sunshine helps the plant helps a plant's leaves make the
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  food that's necessary for the plant to grow. When autumn
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  of rives, days are cooler, plants can no longer make
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  the food they need, and the growing season ends. Time
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  to gather in the crops. Fruits and vegetables that ripen
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  by autumn must be harvested before winters freezing weather destroys them.
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  Three hundred thousand years ago, no one knew how to
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  plant seas to produce a bountiful harvest. Cave bwellers picked berries,
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  collected nuts, dug roots, and gathered wild plants. Winters were
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  hard for them. They had to live on what they
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  gathered and stored in the fall. About ten thousand years ago,
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  where Syria and Turkey are today, tribes learned to grow
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  wheat and barley from seeds. How exciting it must have
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  been to plant one seed and produced a stalk with
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  many Eight thousand years ago in Egypt, people discovered the
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  warm climate was perfect for farming. The Nile River provided water,
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  and one seach year is floodwaters to posited rich, black,
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  fertile soil on both sides. Plants grew in abundance. Gradually,
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  farming spread to Asia. About five thousand years ago, people
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  grew food in a crescent shaped area where Iraqi is
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  now the Tigris River in small streams that fed it
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  turned valleys into a fertile crescent of rich farmlands. Each
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  autumn and many lands, men, women and children worked all
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  day and even a night under the light of a
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  bright harvest moon. They cut rice, threshed wheat, and gathered
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  funds of barley. A good harvest meant plenty of food.
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  To eat in the fall, and more to store for
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  days when food was scarce. Time to rejoice and have
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  fun after hard, back breaking work. Over the centuries, people
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  celebrated plentiful harvests and passed down traditions at different times,
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  in different places and in different ways all over the world.
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  Harvest celebrations from the past are still being carried on today.
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  Jewish families have gathered together at harvest time for over
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  three thousand years to celebrate sue Cot. During this a
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  day festival of thanksgiving, they wave palm, myrtle and willow
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  branches than point them in all directions to show that
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  God is everywhere. Some Jews build a hut called sue Co,
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  like the ones farmers once stayed in, to be near
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  their crops during a busy harvest. They decorate the huts
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  with fruits and vegetables, then invite friends and family to
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  share food and friendship. People in southern End have celebrated Pongel,
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  a four day rice festival, for over two thousand years.
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  On the first day, they decorate their front doors with
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  rice flower designs and give thanks to rain gods. On
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  the second day, they cook pongel, a sweet rice pudding
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  and offer some to the sun goad. On the third day,
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  they honor their cattle to thank them for pulling the plows.
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  The fourth day, families and friends gather on river banks
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  to dance enjoy a bountiful feast, including, of course, freshly
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  harvested rice. The people of Japan have held rice vessel
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  festivals for about two thousand years. In spring, girls dressed
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  in kimonos plant rice while musicians play bills, drums and flutes,
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  and sum where they hold a lantern festival to express
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  their joy as the rice ripens. When file comes, they
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  celebrate the rice harvests with parades and a dragon dance.
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  During their moon viewing ceremony. People seen while watching shadows
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  on the full moon. Many think the shadows show a
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  rabbit making rice cakes. For over seven hundred years, Nigerians
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  have held a fall festival to give thanks for yams.
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  The first crop harvested one night before the festivities begin.
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  The old, wrinkled yams are thrown out. The next day,
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  new yams are offered to the gods and ancestors in
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  appreciation of a successful harvest. Dancers wear raffia skirts and
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  masks that portrayed turtles, lizards, trees in the sun or
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  moon to celebrate a cycle of nature. Hundreds of years ago,
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  the English believed that the spirit of their wheat lived
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  in the last bundle they cut in each field. They
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  twisted it into the shape of a doll. Since they
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  called wheat corn, these dolls were named corn dollies. They
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  were hung in barns or churches during the winter, then
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  plowed back into the earth in the spring to ensure
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  a good harvest in autumn. People still make corn dollies
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  just for fun. Pilgrim from England arrived in America in
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  the fall of sixteen twenty, too late to plant crops
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  that winter, many died from hunger and sickness. When spring came,
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  the surviving pilgrims sowed wheat seeds. A Native American tribe
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  showed them how to plant maize or corn. The following autumn,
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  the harvest was fruitful. The pilgrims planned a celebration to
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  share their blessings, whom upon men hunted and killed five
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  deer to bring to the feast. The pilgrims stayed busy too.
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  Men brought duck skies, turkeys, fish, and oysters. Women prepared
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  corn bread, and cranberries, while children turned meat on spits
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  over in open fire. Games and feasting lasted three days.
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  Bountiful harvests have been celebrated since earliest times. People all
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  over the world still celebrate a fruit a full year
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  of farming with fun, feast and festivals. They enjoy corn rice, yams, apples, pumpkins,
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  cramp berries, and other fruits and vegetables of the harvest season. Autumn,
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  with its brilliant colors and delicious gifts of nature, offers
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  friends and families a time to gather together and give
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  thanks for all their blessings. Equinox facts. An equinox occurs
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  when the center of the sun appears directly over the
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  equator and shines equally on both the northern and southern
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  parts of the Earth. Day and night are equal all
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  over the world. Equinox means equal night on that day.
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  Everywhere on Earth, there are twelve hours of light and
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  twelve hours of dark. There are four seasons in each year.
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  A day the vernal equinox welcomes the first day of spring.
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  The summer celtis, the longest day of the year, tells
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  us summer has arrived. The odd mint autumnal equinox greets autumn,
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  and winter begins on the Winter sulstice, the shortest day.
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  We enjoy four seasons because the earth tilts. Around March
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  twenty first, the spring equinox, the sun appears to cross
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  the equator as it moves from south to north. Day
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  and night are equal all over the world. It's the
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  first day of spring. Time to plant our seeds. Around
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  June twenty first, the summer sultus, the northern part of
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  the world receives the direct rays of the sun. We
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  have the longest day of the year, the first day
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  of summer when our plants grow. Around September twenty first,
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  the autumnnal equinox, the sun appears to cross the equator
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  again as it moves from north to south. Day and
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  night our equal all over the world. It's the first
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  day of autumn. Time to start harvesting crops. The full
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  moon nearest the first day of autumn of the autumnal
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  equinox is called the harvest moon. Its bright light allow
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  people to harvest crops late in the night. After the
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  autumnal equinox, the northern part of the world receives only
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  the indirect rays of the sun. The days get shorter
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  and the nights longer until the winter sulus around December
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  twenty first. Then the cycle begins again. Our next book
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  is titled Raggedy Ann and Andy Leaf Dance. It was
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  published by Simon's Spotlight and imprint of Simon and Schuster's
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  Children's Publishing Division, has a copyright year of two thousand
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  to twenty fifteen and the author of the book is
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  Bobby Pearlman. It is the first a fall. Yelled Raggedy Andy,
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  Let's have a party. The dolls went outside. The air
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  was cold. It was a perfect fall day. Fido barket
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  and ran in circles. He loved to party. Let's pick
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  some apples, Raggedy Ann said. So they did. Raggedy Ann
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  and the camel with the wrinkled knees saw Scarecrow. The
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  cold wind blew his arms and legs. It looked like
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  he was dancing. Raggedy Andy saw the leaves blowing. Let's
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  have a leaf dance party, he said. May I come
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  as to big orange pumpkin. I cannot dance, but I
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  can decorate, he said. Raggedy Ann hugged pumpkin. Of course
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  you may come, she said. The dolls saw some leaf fairies.
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  We're going to have a leaf dance. Raggedy Andy said,
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  may we come, asked the leaf fairies, yes, do come.
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  Little brown Bear said, leaf dances are so much fun.
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  The leaf fairies toikle to big tree. The tree laughed
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  and her leaves floated down. Look. Raggedy Ann said, each
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  leaf is different. One leaf was long, one was short,
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  some had points, and some were round. Each leaf is
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  a different color, too, said Raggedy Andy. One leaf was brown,
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  one was red, some were yellow, some were green. The
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  camel with the wrinkled knees stepped on some leaves, crunch
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  They smelled sweet. Little brown Bear gave each s doll
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  and apple. Uncle Clem put pumpkin next to the big tree.
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  The dolls made a big pile of leaves. Fido and
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  Henny jumped into it. We the leaf fairies cried as
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  Lee's floated down. The leaves were dancing. The dolls danced
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  with them. Uncle Clem danced with Fredrika. Raggedy Ann hugged pumpkin.
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  Henry danced with Cleavie the Clown. Raggedy Andy and Little
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  Brown Bear spun around. I love the first day of fall,
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  cheered Raggedy Andy. We love leaf dances, cried the leaf
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  fairies and the dolls. And I love all of you,
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  said Raggedy Ann. Next book is called The Pumpkin Patch,
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  and it was published by Simon's Spotlight and Imprint of
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  Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing Division. It has a copyright
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  year of two thousand and three to twenty twenty one
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  and the author of our book is Margaret nick Namera.
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  Put on your coat, said Missus Connor. Missus Connor. This
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  class was going on a field trip to the pumpkin patch.
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  Katie was ready first, she could not wait to find
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  the perfect pumpkin. The bus ride was long. The whole time,
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  Katie imagined the perfect pumpkin. At the pumpkin patch, there
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  were lots and lots of pumpkins. You may each take
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  home one pumpkin, said Missus Connor. Choose carefully, Katy began
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  her search. She looked under vines, she looked in the straw,
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  she looked in the mud. At last, Katy found it
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  the perfect pumpkin. Missus Connor's class got back on the bus.
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  They showed off their pumpkins. Mine's round, said Emma. Mine
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  is tall, said Anna, mine is big, said Neil. Look
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  at Katie's pumpkins, said James, it's so small. Katy's pumpkin
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  was small. It was very, very small. Katie felt bad
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  her pumpkin was not perfect. Katy took her pumpkin home.
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  I picked a bad pumpkin. She told her dad. That's
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  not a bad pumpkin. He said, it's a good pumpkin.
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  Let me show you. Katie's dead cooked the pumpkin, then
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  cut it into pieces. Katie mashed the pieces and they
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  made a pie. Katie took the pie to school. My
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  pumpkin was small, she said, but it was sweet. Now
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  it is a pie. The children love Katy's pumpkin pie.
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  Your pumpkin was perfect, said James. Our next book is
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  called Oh My Pumpkin Pie, and it was published by
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  Reading Random House, which is a trademark of Penguin Random House.
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  It has a copyright year of two thousand and five
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  and it was written by Charles Ghigna. Autumn in the
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  Pumpkin Patch, no two pumpkins ever match. See them growing
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  row by row, pumpkins put on a quite a show.
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  Pumpkins come in many sizes. Pumpkin shapes are such surprises,
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  Pumpkins round as basketballs, pumpkins flat as old beach balls,
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  pumpkins striped in shades of yellow. One looks like a
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  large marshmallow. Some have bumps, some have none. Some look
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  like a setting sun. Some look like a big balloon.
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  Some look like a harvest moon. Some look like a
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  spinning toy. Some look like a baby boy. Pumpkin skinny,
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  pumpkins fat, some look like a tabby cat. Some are
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  shaped just like a pair. Some go to the county fair.
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  Some big pumpkins win a prize. Some wine wound up
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  in pumpkin pies, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin bread. One becomes a
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  scarecrow's head. Pumpkin butter on your toast. Pumpkin seeds are
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  fun to roast. What's the biggest one you've seen? Was
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  it during Halloween? Looking friendly, looking mean, with a smile,
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  or with a scream? Pumpkin faces burning blight on this
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  cool October night. Our next stories are about a character
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  named Pedro, and the first one is called Pedro Goes Buggy.
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  It was published by Picture Window Books, a Capstone in print.
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  It has a copyright year of twenty seventeen and the
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  author is fran Manshkin. Chapter one, Wild about Bugs. Who
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  likes bugs, ask Miss Winkle, I do yell Pedro. I
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  am wild about bugs, me too, said Katie Woo. I
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  like the green bugs that are like caddy DIDs. Ah,
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  Pedro smile you would. We're going to study bugs, said
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  Miss Winkle. After school, go out and look for bugs.
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  Pick one that you like and write about it. I
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  like stink bugs, shouted Roddy. I can bring one to school.
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  That would be fun. Not a good idea, said Miss Winkle.
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  Pedro went home and found his bug jar. He began
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  looking for bugs in the wheeze. He found ten ants
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  and put them in his jar. Pedro found a filled
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  with lots of lady bugs he took home at fifteen.
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  His puppy, Peppy, tried to eat them. No way, yep, Pedro.
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  Pedro loved beetles too. They are so shiny, he told Jojo,
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  and they are fun to say, he added, beat o, beetle, beetle.
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  He took home twenty Chapter two bed Bugs, head bugs.
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  Pedro couldn't stop catching bugs. Each jay he found more.
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  He told his little buck brother Pawco, it's a good thing.
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  I have a big jar. One day, when Pedro was
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  at school, Paco told the bugs, I want to watch
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  you run around. He opened the jar and let them out.
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  There were bugs on the bed and bugs on Poco's head. Cool,
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  he said. When Pedro came home, he said, not cool.
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  Out they go, said, Pedro's dead. These bugs are driving
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  me buggy. Chapter three, Get Hoppin'. The next day, Pedro
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  told Katie I have no bugs to write about. You
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  better hurry and find one, said Katie. Get Hoppin'. I
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  love hoppin, said Pedro. He hopped down the block looking
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  for a new bug. He saw a wasp. No way,
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  he yelled. He saw a grasshopper jumping in the weeds.
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  Let's race, Pedro yelled. Pedro hopped. Then the grasshopper jumped.
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  It's a tie, yelled Jojo. You both win. Pedro told
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  the grasshopper, you are the most fun I will write
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  about you. Pedro wrote about the grasshopper, then he let
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  him go. Good work, said miss Winkle. Next we will
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  be writing about tigers. Great, Pedro smiled. I can't wait
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  to bring one home. Our next story is called Pedro's
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  Tricky Tower, and it was published like picture window books,
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  a Capstone imprint. It has a copyright of twenty eighteen
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  and the author of our book is Frand Mannushkin. Chapter one,
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  A Tricky Project. Pedro loved to build. He helped his
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  father make a tree house. He helped his grandpa build
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  a fireplace. One day, as teacher, Miss Winkle told the class,
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  I have a tricky building project for you. Yay, yelled Roddy.
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  I love tricks. I play them on people all the time.
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  That's not the kind of tricky I mean, said Miss Winkle.
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  We are going to try to build the tallest tower.
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  That's easy, bragg Pedro. All we need are loss of bricks.
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  We are not using bricks, said Miss Winkle. We are
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  using nineteen paper cups. You will be working in teams.
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  Barry and Jojo were on Katie Woo's team. Sophie was
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  on Pedro's team, so was Roddy. Watch out warned Katie.
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  R O D d WI spells t r O U
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  b l E. Chapter two, Time to build. Miss Winkle
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  told the teams. Before you build, you need to plan.
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  I don't need to plan, said Pedro. I know what
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  to do. Pedro began piling up paper cups. He tried
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  to build high, but the towers kept falling down. Roddy
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  put four paper cups on his head. Watch out, he joked,
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  My towers are falling down to Pedro and Sophie tried
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  again and again, but the cps cups kept falling. Oh boy,
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  said Pedro. I wish we had some bricks. Then it
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  was time for recess. Roddy told Pedro forget the tower.
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  Let's see who can do the most handstance. I know
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  I'll win. Roddy flipped upside down and back again. Pedro
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  tried it. He kept falling down. Watch me and learn,
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  said Roddy. Pedro did. Watch Roddy. Then he began thinking
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  that's it. Pedro yelled, you show me how to build
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  the tallest tower. Chapter three, The Tallest Tower. After recess,
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  Pedro ran back to class. He said, let's put some
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  of the cups right side up and some upside down.
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  Pedro and Sophie began to build. Let me help, said Roddy.
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  He began piling up the cups. Their tower got higher
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  and higher. It did not fall. It was the tallest tower.
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  Way to go, said miss Winkle. Roddy couldn't stop smiling.
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  He told Pedro. I knew we could do it. He
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  gave Pedro a high five. After school, Pedro said, want
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  to help me fix my tree house cools, said Roddy,
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  I'll raise you there. They both won. Our next book
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  is called Pedro Is Rich. It was published by Picture
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  Window Books, a Capstone imprint has a Copyreyer of twenty
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  twenty two, and the author of the book is Friend Mannushkin.
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  Chapter one Pedro's Birthday. It was Pedro's birthday. His grandma
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  gave him a funny card. It had lots of money
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  in it. Wow, yell Pedro, thank you Grandma. I am rich.
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  I have lots of money too, said Katie. I keep
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  it in a piggy bank. I love shaking my money
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  and making it jingle. I keep my money in a
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  glass jar, said Jojo. I can see it when I
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  shake it. Jojo asked Pedro, where do you keep your money?
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  I keep mine in the box, said Pedro. I love
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  to count it. You can put some money in the bank,
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  said Pedro. S dead, it will be safe and your
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  money will grow. Wow, said Pedro. I hope my money
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  grows as tall as you. Chapter two, Future Plan. Pedro
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  and his dad went to the bank. Pedro gave them
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  a lot of his money, but he kept a little. Later,
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  Pedro told Katie and Jojo, my money is growing in
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  the bank. Maybe we'll grow as high as a mountain.
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  My money is growing too, said Katie. I will buy
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  my dad to go watch. He will never be laid again.
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  I'm getting my mama new car, said Jojo. The car
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  will of a shiny red like her ooopstick cool, said Pedro.
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  We can all take a ride, Pedro, toe, Katy and Jojo.
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  I have a little money to spend today. What should
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  I do with it? You should get ice cream, said Katie.
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  Ice cream is a good way to spend money, for sure,
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  said Pedro. I will do that. Chapter three, time for
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  a treat. On the way to the store, the three
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  friends saw Roddy. Let's play soccer, said Roddy. That's a
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  good idea, said Pedro. I can get ice cream. Later,
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  Pedro kicked the ball hard. He kicked and ran whoops.
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  His money went flying out of his pocket. The wind
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  blew it away. I'll help you find it, said Katie.
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  Us too, said Jojo and Roddy. They looked in the
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  tall grass and the trees. They found all the money,
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  Thank you, said Pedro. This is a lot of money.
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  I can buy myself ice cream cones all week. That's right,
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  said Katie. You can have a new kind every day,
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  said Jojo. Lucky you, said Roddy. They begin walking away. Wait,
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  yelled Pedro, I know the best way to eat ice cream? How,
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  asked his friends. With you, said Pedro. The ice cream
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  is my tree. Yay, yelled every one. They each hit
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  a different flavor. All the cones tasted cool and sweet.
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  Feeling happy is as much fun as feeling rich, said Pedro,
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  and it was. This concludes the children's story I have
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  for today. Please join us next time as we will
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  read more stories, fables and fairy tales. Thank you for listening,
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  and please stay tuned for the Lexton Herald Leader on
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  Radio I