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A gingerbread boy runs away from the woman who made him and from several other creatures who wish to eat him, but a clever fox proves his undoing.

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.

Describes what is known about Mercury from the photographs taken by Project Mariner.

Discusses the physical features and moons of the planet Neptune and how we have gained our knowledge of this giant world.

Describes the sixth planet from the sun, its rings, and its moons, and includes photographs taken in outer space.

Four-year-old Elisa gets her picture taken, starts learning to read, breaks her arm, and experiences other exciting aspects of growing up.

Describes the further adventures of an inquisitive seven-year-old and her neighbors in a New York City apartment building.

Three-year-old Elisa's new rag doll goes along on the adventures she and her seven-year-old brother Russell have with friends and family in their apartment building and outside.

First grader Russell Michaels grows more than an inch taller, becoming big enough to wear his red slicker and big enough to deal with family and school challenges.

Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.

When a little girl named Opal and her preacher father move to a small Southern town, she adopts a dog named Winn-Dixie.

Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats present numerous examples of adjectives, from "hairy, scary, cool, and ordinary" to "tan and tall, " "funny, frisky, smooth, and small.

When Dish and Spoon run away, their nursery rhyme friends Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to rescue them in time for the next evening's reading of their rhyme.

The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.