&&000 ADDISON-WESLEY PUBL. CO.  (1982)  3RD GRADE    ADD9823R.ASC
THE DICTOPEDIA 3-1, 3-2 by Pleasant T. Rowland  
Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scan, edit by DPH February 1, 1993

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This is a picture of the
city =Herculaneum today.
The mud lava that buried
=Herculaneum hardened to
stone. It kept the city
the way it was the day
the volcano erupted.  
Today, scientists called
archaeologists have  
uncovered parts of  
=Herculaneum. By digging away
the mud lava, they have
learned about the people
who lived and worked in
the houses and shops of
=Herculaneum.



I really am surprised about the
pirates,  the little man said.  I haven't
seen any around here in weeks.'
 In weeks ?  =Jo gulped.  You
mean there are pirates around here? 

 Well, maybe it's been a little
longer than weeks. A few years, I
guess. A few =hundred years.  The man
chuckled.  I'm afraid I sometimes get
mixed up about time. 



Just as the lion was having a sip
of water, who should come trotting
by but a wart hog.
When the lion saw her, he began
to cry. Oh, dear. What happened
to you ? Your skin is so gray. Have
you been to a doctor? I am sure your
skin should be soft and furry and gold
like mine.'
The wart hog was furious.   
Doctor ! she snapped. Gray ! My skin is
Supposed to be gray. Leave me alone!'
Oh, my,  cried the lion. I am
so sorry. Please forgive me. But tell
me, why aren't you as strong and big
and gold and handsome as I am? 
The wart hog did not answer. She
was so furious that she stomped off
before the lion could say another
word.
The lion shook his head.  What
did I say that made her so mad? 
The lion sat by the pond all day
and looked at himself. I am so  
handsome,  he said. No wonder I am
called the =King of =Beasts.



different as two houses could be. The
carpenter's was a neat little cabin. It
was all made out of wood, and  
everything had a place. The tinker's house
was made out of old boxes, tin cans,
and broken boards. It was stuck
together with anything that he could
find. One =Saturday morning the  
carpenter called across the river. How
about a game of checkers?  he shouted
to the tinker.
I'll be right over,  the tinker
called back.
The carpenter could not believe
his eyes. The tinker jumped into the
river, clothes and all, and swam across.
The carpenter brought out his
checkers and checkerboard and a table
with matching chairs.
I made these checkers,  he said
proudly.  There are twelve black ones
and twelve red ones. And they are all
perfectly round. 
They are very nice,  said the
tinker politely.
They sat down to play. The  
carpenter was very careful, and very
slow. He would look at the board for
ages before each move. The tinker
made a move as soon as it was his



A caterpillar looks like a worm.
Caterpillars turn into butterflies
or moths.
What do caterpillars do?
Nothing much but chew and chew.

What do caterpillars know?
Nothing much but how to grow.

They just eat what by and by
will make them be a butterfly.

But that is more than I can do
however much I chew and chew.



basement the part of a building that
is underground.

Broke in the Basement

On =Friday we moved to our new
house. It wasn't really new. It needed
paint, and the basement steps needed
fixing. But it was a house all our own.
We were tired from moving, so
we slept late on =Saturday.  =Momma
wanted to get the rest of our boxes
from the old apartment. =Daddy wanted
to fix the basement steps.
Can't we do both?  I asked. I'll
stay and help =Daddy.  =Momma can get
the boxes. 
Okay,  said =Momma.  I'll be
back by four. Then we can all go out
to eat together. 



=Meg answered,  I was. I am. But, 
but,  
Well,  said =Aunt =Paulette, if you
really want to leave, perhaps you should
leave right away. 
=Meg thought for a moment and
then said quietly, But I love you and
=Uncle =Peter. I don't want to leave. Not
anymore. But it's too late. =Cally won't
be my friend. She says I'm selfish. 
=Aunt =Paulette gave =Meg a  
handkerchief and made her blow her nose.
Then she said,  You're not selfish,
=Meg. You're just stubborn. Once you
get an idea in your head, you can't let
go of it. Find =Cally and tell her you
have changed your mind.   
=Meg shook her head.
 Just try,  said =Aunt =Paulette.  See
what happens. 
=Meg didn't have to look far. =Cally
was sitting on =Meg's front steps. And
she looked almost as miserable as =Meg.



On summer afternoons, under our
orchard trees in =Maine, =Grandmother
told us stories. The best ones were the
true stories about her own life. Our
favorite was about the day  
=Grandmother took a walk on an iceberg.
Every time we heard the story, shivers
ran up and down our spines.
=Grandmother would always tell the
story in the same way. If we thought
she was going to leave something out,
we would all interrupt to remind her.
It all began in =1860, when my
grandmother married a young sea  
captain. Many wives waited at home for
their husbands to return from the sea.
But it never occurred to =Grandmother to
stay at home. Whenever =Grandfather
went to sea, she went with him.
Now, one spring morning, 
=Grandmother would always begin,  your
grandfather and I spotted an iceberg as
big as an island. 
 That iceberg is just right for a
walk, my grandmother told my  
grandfather.  It's so big and sunny that I'm
sure it's quite safe. And one side slopes
gently down to the water and looks just
right for a landing. 
No iceberg is safe for a walk, 
=Grandfather said.  Just put that idea
straight out of your head. 



treasure   something very valuable.

Nearly two =hundred years ago, in
=1795, three boys beached their canoe on
small island in =Canada called =Oak
=Island. Then they went exploring. On a
hill near the shore, they saw a strange
old oak tree. In the bottom branch were
deeply cut grooves, perhaps made by a
heavy rope. Beneath the branch was a
round dip in the ground. It looked as if
someone had dug a hole there once.
To the boys, all these clues could
mean only one thing, buried treasure!
Something heavy must have been



=Secret =Agent =QZ13 had just
finished another assignment. Now it
was time for a fishing vacation. But the
minute =QZ13 baited her hook, her
=Secret =Agent's multipurpose fishing
pole began to talk. A tiny two-way
radio was hidden inside the handle.
Headquarters was calling her. Using
spy code language like  =GRIX =BIBBLE
=KERPLOP,  =Chief =Benson told her that
the smallest but most dangerous  
superweapon ever invented, the =Crumble
=Bomb, had been stolen. =Simon =La
=Greedy was holding the bomb at his
hideout in =Alaska. He was demanding
one =hundred =million dollars as ransom.
And, the =Chief added, =Simon
says that if he sees any kind of gang
coming toward his hideout, he'll explode
the superweapon. He'd rather die than



The sailors continued to watch for reefs. But,
amazingly, the reefs seemed to have disappeared.
The voice was leading them through a clear path
in the water.
Suddenly, one hour before dawn, the voice
stopped.
Everyone stood still and listened to the
silence. Somehow they knew the danger was over.
Most of the crew went below. But =Cubbins
stayed on deck with =Angus and waited for the
sunrise. For a long time neither one spoke.
Finally, =Cubbins dared to ask,  What was it,
=Angus? A whale,  he answered.  I'm sure it was a
whale.  =Cubbins nodded.  Yes,  he said to himself.
In the distance they could see the lights of a
port town. Before going below, the captain ran up
a flag signaling for help. In the morning someone
would see it and send a boat to lead them  
safely into port.
&&000 AMERICAN BOOK CO.  (1980) 3RD GRADE           AMR9803R.ASC
Combines 2 books
Source: Kutztown State College (Pa.) xerox by LW
scan edit by DPH 12-22-92

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A strange person with a moustache stepped
over =Fletcher and knocked on =Jill's back door.
=Fletcher was =Jill's dog. He opened one eye but
didn't move. He never moved unless he had to.
The strange person flashed a badge.  I just
want to ask some questions,  said the person.
 Hi, =Gwen, what do you want?  asked =Jill.
 How did you know it was me? 
 You're the only kid who has a moustache, 
said =Jill.
 =Gwen took off her moustache and squeezed it
back into her detective kit.  I'd like to watch you
play baseball today,  she said.  Let's go. 
Great,  said =Jill.  My dad just got me a new
=Rusty =McGraw bat. I can't wait to use it. 
Slam! Bang! With her new bat, =Jill hit balls left
and right. She was the star player of the =Sparks
that day.



=First =Godmother  =Kisses baby And so farewell.
May your gay laughter ring throughout the
palace for many a day.
=Second =Godmother  Kisses baby : I, too, must
say farewell. Someday you will find that
even tears will bring you happiness.
=Godmothers leave. 
=Queen: Let's put this flask of tears upon the
     highest shelf.
=King: Quite right, my dear. We'll hide it now
     before a single tear escapes.  =King and =Queen
and nurse with baby leave. 


But he could not use the name =Fred =Bailey
anymore. It would not be wise. It might even lead
to his capture and return to slavery.
Besides, a slave name did not seem to fit a
free life. Why not leave the old name behind,
with the old life?
=Fred heard these words from his friends and
agreed with them. He decided to use the name
=Douglass. And as =Frederick =Douglass, he was
to become famous.
=Fred became a speaker, a writer of books, and
editor of his own newspaper. For many years
he was a leader in the fight against slavery.
Crowds came to hear his speeches, and he often
made his listeners want to work hard against
slavery. Indeed, it was said that the powerful
speeches of =Frederick =Douglass helped many
slaves gain their freedom.
The man who had once been a slave came to
be thought of as an important man of learning.

The =President of the =United =States asked him to
serve the government. He sent =Douglass to act
as the =American =Minister to the country of =Haiti.



we're not building a tree house. We're building
something called a  =Computo. 
My friends and I were thinking about how to
get the box up into the tree when along came
old =Albert.
=Thomas!  =Albert said to me.  What are you
going to do with that box? Do you have an idea
in mind? 
=Albert never had just a simple plan for doing
things. It had to be a well thought out idea.
His parents are always bragging about how

=Albert is going to be a great scientist someday.
Well, we didn't want any big brains like =Albert
hanging around, so I said,  =Well, I guess that's
one for our =Computo to answer. 
 =Computo?  =Albert said.  You must mean
computer. But it's too involved, too technical,
for someone who is not a scientist to make a
computer out of an old box! 
 You mean you've never heard of a
=Computo?  =Ray said, poking me.  It's a lot like
a computer. You just feed a question into it.
Then it =whirs, and little lights blink. After a
while, out pops the answer. 


All you have to do is turn the bell upside
down every night,  said =Maria.  If you do that, I
promise that every morning your customers will
have their paper to read while they have
breakfast. 
The next morning, =Maria loaded up her papers
and rode out into the dawn. She hurried through
the streets of her town, tossing papers onto
porches and front steps. When she got to =Bell's
=Diner, she took aim at the upside-down bell and
let the paper fly. =Whoosh! The paper sailed right
into the bell.



=Hans began to tap. He tapped and tapped and
tapped! He didn't know when to stop! He
couldn't give the right answer to any of the
questions!
This proved that although =Hans was a clever
horse, he was not a =thi1lki11g horse. He didn't
know the answers. =Hans just tapped until he saw
a signal that told him to stop.
What was that signal? Dr =Pfungst was sure
that =Hans got some signal from the questioner.
Perhaps the signal that told him when to stop
tapping was a sudden happy look on the
questioner's face. Perhaps it was a lighting up of
the eyes or a sigh. Perhaps it was some other sign
that the horse was able to sense.


=Nate the =Great, am a busy detective. One
morning when I was not busy, I was sitting
under a tree with my dog, =Sludge, and a pancake
My friend =Claude came into the backyard. I
knew that he had lost something. Claude was
always losing things.  I lost my way to your
house,  he said.  And then I found it. 
What else did you lose?  I asked.
I lost my shopping list,  he said.  Can you
help me find it? I need it before lunch. 
 Very well. I =Nate the =Great, will take your
case. Tell me, what was on the list? 
 If I could remember, I wouldn't need the
list,  =Claude said.
 Good thinking,  I said.  Does anyone know
what was on the list? 



=SETTING: =The =Great =Music =Hall, that very night.
All the =King's knights and wise people are the
Comics and singers have come to make them
merry. The royal family appears. Prince =Hal
hurries to find a chair, for his mother. Every
smiles.

Prince =Hal  =Smiling : =Won't you be seated fir
=Mother?  He does not seem so childish now. 
Queen  =Surprised : =Thank you, my dear. Wel
know I am the happiest mother in the world.



Just a minute,  called =Emma. At last she had got
the cement out of her mouth using a sharp twig.
 We're sorry too. 
For what?  growled =Max, ready to fight.
 For not saying thanks for all the good things he
showed us,  said =Emma to =Max. Looking at =Jim,
=Emma went on.  The cement was not a good idea.
But =Max's notches are much better than before. 
What?  shouted =Max.
 Quiet, or you'll hurt your upper lip again, 
whispered =Gordon. In a louder voice, =Gordon said,
Now lots of us can dive better. 


Chief =Crossby looked around at the class.  Of
course, there's more to being a fire fighter than
riding on fire engines or fighting fires,  he said.
 You've got to keep every piece of equipment in
perfect working order. The fire fighters spend
hours checking and repairing equipment. They
even return to school to learn new ways to fight
fires. Some of them learn how to work on fireboats
or jump from airplanes to fight forest fires.
 Maybe the most important lesson they learn is
this: =Each person's safety depends upon the other
people in the company. The fire fighters all must
work as part of a team. The safety of this school
depends upon the =Thirty-Sixth. Any questions? 
=Jerry's hand shot up into the air.  When can I
sign up?  he asked.


A woman .spoke:  =Welcome aboard our
rocket ship to outer space! Please buckle
your seat belts, or you may float all over
the rocket. 
When we leave the earth,  she explained,
 the force of the speeding rocket will push
us back again,st our seats. 
=John saw =Jean  buckle her pretend seat belt.
 There,  she whispered.  I'm all set! 


=Chuka watched the hawks until he could
not tell which one was =Wiki. He was afraid
=Wiki would not come back. But soon a
hawk began to fly down in big circles. As it
got closer to the ground, the circles got
smaller and smaller. Then, when it was
quite low, it swooped down and bit =Bakitohcl
on the ear. =Bakito howled loudly, but
=Chuka was so glad =Wiki had come back
that he laughed and laughed.
&&000 THE ECONOMY COMPANY (1986)  3RD GRADE READER  ECO9863R.ASC
NEW LEAVES (3-1) by Louise Matteoni et al
BRIGHT WONDERS (3-2) by Louise Matteoni et al
Source: Russell Sage Troy NY
xerox, scan edit by DPH  March 6, 1993

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=Benny was an =Indian boy who lived in =Alaska
many years before it became a state. Everyone
liked =Benny, for =Benny liked everyone. He had
many, many friends in the mission home where he
lived. That was a place for boys and girls who had
no families.
=Benny was happy in the mission home. But
sometimes before he went to sleep at night, he
would look at the stars outside his window and long
for the day when he would be a man. For then he
was going to be a fine fisherman. He would use a big
net like the =Big =Dipper to catch a big silver fish.
And like the =Big =Dipper, which was really a great
strong bear of night, he would be big and strong
himself. The =North =Star would guide his boat, for
the =North =Star is the star of =Alaska, the most
northerly state in =American.


=Novinia waited impatiently as the captain
began reading off each name and the people
moved forward to get their gifts.
Suddenly all the boxes had been given out.
=Novinia should have known they wouldn't bring
the pompons. Why had she requested something
so silly?
Then the captain stepped forward again and
said,  The committee talked about this last
request for a long time. At first some people
didn't think it was useful. But in the end they
decided that =Dallas =II needs this gift just as much
as it needs tools and radio equipment. 
He pulled out a small plastic jar and lifted
the lid.
In the dark dirt, twelve magic pompons grew
on thin stems. One dandelion top was still
yellow, but the rest of the puffs were round and
white against the blue sky.
They're more beautiful than I thought they
would be,  =Novinia thought.
Then the wind blew across the landing field.
The dandelion puffs lifted into the air, and
=hundreds of tiny dandelion seeds floated to their
new homes.


That caught my attention, so I grabbed the
paper and looked at it. It was a treasure map!
=Robbie laughed when she saw the map.
 Treasure map? Do you really think this will lead to
a treasure? 
 Well, I don't know for sure,  I said,  but let's
follow it and see if there is a treasure. 
=Robbie took the map, looked at it closer, and
said,  Please explain to me how we are going to
follow it, because these places on the map aren't
around here. 
 They're not?  I took the map back and said,
 Well, it says to start at the southern tip of =The
=Swamp. 
 What swamp? We're in the middle of a
huge city. 


When they began walking again, =Toby took the
lead. The trail became steeper and more rocky. =Katy
had to keep her eyes on her boots so she wouldn't
trip. For the first time, she was aware that she was
climbing. Her breath came in short, loud pants. Her
heart pounded, her legs hurt, and her backpack felt
heavy on her back.
 Oh,  =Katy groaned,  how much farther? 
 Just another half mile,  her father said.
 Another half mile,  =Katy said to herself as she
lifted one heavy foot and then the other.  Just
another half mile. 
=Katy saw a drop splat on the tip of her boot. It
spread into a nickel-sized dark spot on the gray



One day a =Pittsburgh newspaper had a story
that said that a woman should work only at home.
Many people who read the story wrote letters to the
editor. Most of them agreed with the story.
But one well-written letter did not agree with
the story. It said that because =American did not use
the minds of its women, it was not as strong as it
could be. The name at the end of the letter was =E
=Cochrane.
The editor thought the letter was very good.
It had given him something to think about. In a
newspaper story he asked =E =Cochrane to come and
talk to him about a job. To his surprise, it was not a
man but a young woman who came to see him. She
said that her name was =E =Cochrane, =Elizabeth
=Cochrane.
=Elizabeth needed a job. She had to make a living
for herself and her mother. Her family thought that
she should be a nurse or a teacher. But =Elizabeth
wanted to be a reporter.
There had never been a woman reporter at that
newspaper before. At first the editor tried to say no
to =Elizabeth.  But after he heard her ideas for
stories, he said that he would give her a chance.
=Elizabeth began to write exciting stories. On
each story she put the name =Nellie =Bly. This name
soon became hers.



 They look nice, =Effie,  =Grandma said.
Effie's big sister, =Norma =Lou, came into
the room.
 Well, =Norma =Lou,  =Grandma said,  it won't
be long before we'll be having the first wedding
in this family since your mother and father were
married. 
=Effie sidled out through the back door and
sat on the porch. Inside the house, they would be
discussing the plans for =Norma =Lou's wedding.
=Effie knew the plans by heart because she had
already heard them a =million times.
=Norma =Lou would wear =Grandma's wedding
dress. Uncle =Fonzo would drive over at exactly
seven o'clock and he would pick up everybody
but =Grandma. Grandma had already told them
that she would ride to church on her bicycle as
she always did.
Inside, =Norma =Lou had raised her voice.
 =Grandma,  she was saying,  I wish just once
you'd go with =Uncle =Fonzo and the rest of us in
the automobile. 



And it had been valuable, because after
studying the alphabet in the spelling book,
=Sequoyah made a set of symbols for the =Cherokee
language. =Sequoyah's system wasn't an alphabet,
however. Because the written symbols stood for
different sounds, the system was called a syllabary.
Since =Sequoyah's young daughter had been able to
learn all the symbols, he was certain that =Cherokee
=Indians everywhere could learn them.
Although he was nervous about the chiefs
decision, =Sequoyah remembered how hard he had
worked for this moment. He had come across the
country to inform the chiefs about the syllabary. He
thought about how the scattered =Cherokee people
might never again be a united people because they
couldn't communicate with each other. He decided
he must go through with the test.
It wasn't a difficult test. =Sequoyah was told to
wait outside the council house while, inside, the
chiefs told =Ah-Yoka some words to write down on
paper.  =Sequoyah waited and worried, until at last
the door was opened and he was told to come inside.
As =Sequoyah took the piece of paper, he glanced at
his daughter and was relieved to see that she no
longer looked fearful.



Every summer it was the same way. That old
door stuck stubbornly all through the winter when
it was rainy and the wood swelled. Then during late
summer and fall, when the weather turned dry, the
wood shrank and the door swung as if its hinges
were oiled.
=Janey knew it would be no use, but she went
over and tried it. Not a hope. She rang the bell, good
and long, but she knew quite well =Daddy wouldn't
hear, since the little bell was up over the kitchen
door on the opposite side of the house. Mama would
have, she always heard everything, but not
=Daddy.
She stood thinking about what she could do.
Then she ran down the steps, along the driveway to
the back, around into the garden, and over to =Mama
and =Daddy's bedroom. The windows here at the
back would be closed and locked, she knew, to be
on the safe side, =Daddy said. As for the two around
the corner, which he always opened a little at night,
there were so many big, thick, scratchy bushes
under them, no one could possibly push a way in.
Quietly, quietly, like a little animal, she
scratched at the window screen, which she could
just reach.  =Daddy!  she hissed, not very loud.
=Daddy, it's me, =Janey, and I'm locked out. 



Listen,  said the =Boomer,  my =Sooner will run
circles around your freight train. What's more, he'll
be as fresh as a daisy when we pull into the
junction. 
 Well,  said the =Roadmaster,  you can have the
job. I'm not a mean man, you know, but =Rule =One
has got to stick. 
So the =Boomer fireman climbed into a cab
beside the engineer and began to shovel coal for all
he was worth. The freight train pulled out of the
station and started to pick up speed. The =Sooner
loped along beside it. In no time at all he had left the
freight train far behind.
The freight train made its run and then returned,
but the =Sooner led it all the way. And when the dog
trotted into the =Roadmaster's office a mile ahead of
the train, the =Roadmaster got angry. He was worried
about what people would say about a freight train
that couldn't keep up with a long-legged, lop-eared
=Sooner hound.
 Look here, =Boomer,  he said, as the fireman
climbed down from the cab.  That =Sooner outran
the freight train, but I'm going to transfer you to a
local passenger run. What do you think about
that? 
 Suits me,  said the =Boomer.  Me and my
=Sooner take the jobs we get, and we always stay
together. 



Long ago in =Poland, there lived a girl named
=Manya, who laughed and sang with her three sisters
and a brother.  =Manya's father was a teacher and her
mother a musician. Although they encouraged all
their children to do excellent schoolwork, nobody
could know then just how famous little =Manya
would grow up to be.
=Manya studied hard in her school and became a
teacher of poor children in =Poland. But =Manya was
curious about many things, and she wanted to learn
more. She went to a famous school in =France, the
=Sorbonne, to learn how and why things do what
they do. It was her ambition to be a scientist, at a
time when few women were encouraged to study.
While in =Paris, =Manya began spelling her name
as they do in =France, =Marie. Marie met another
energetic young scientist, whose name was =Pierre
=Curie. Both =Pierre and =Marie were devoted to
science, and they found they had a great love for
each other as well, so they were married.



Wait a minute!  he said, looking again.  It's
not only my boat, it's also my horse! How could this
happen to me; how could this happen to me? 
The boat drifted far out toward the middle of
the lake.
 Come back!  the farmer shouted;  come back,
back, back! 
The horse heard the farmer shouting and perked
his ears.
 Sack, did he say sack?  said the horse to
himself as he looked around and saw the sack of
lunch the farmer's wife had prepared.
 The farmer wants me to eat his lunch; how
kind of him,  the horse said, waving at the farmer to
show he understood, and he took a big green pickle
from the sack.
The boat drifted farther and farther away.
 Swim!  the farmer shouted.  You crazy horse;
swim, swim, swim! 
 Brim,  said the horse;  did he say brim?  and
he looked around and found the big hat.



=Plains =Indians were also
famous for their beadwork.
Beads were used to decorate
clothes, moccasins, carrying
pouches, and cradles.

=Indians of the =Woodlands
The Indians who lived on
the =East =Coast and in the  
midwest part of this country are
known as =Woodland Indians.
Although trees were plentiful,
the =Woodland Indians used
them differently than the  
=Northwest Indians did.
=Woodland =Indians carved
faces on trees, but they didn't
make them into totem poles.
Instead they used them as
masks. These masks were
often painted and decorated
with feathers. =Woodland  
=Indians also made masks from
dried corn husks because corn
could be grown easily in this
area. These masks were used
for special ceremonies.
&&000 GINN & CO.  (1982)   3RD GRADE          GIN9823R.ASC
Levels 9 and 10 Most pages all color
Source: Kutztown State College (Pa.) xeroxed by :W
Scanned and edited by DPH 12-22-92

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=Ella glanced at the slip of paper in her hand.  We
want =725, it must be the next block. 
The girls, =Ella, =Henny, =Sarah, =Charlotte, and
=Gertie, and little =Charlie were going to their aunt's
new apartment for supper. Their mother would meet
them there later.
 Now,=Ella said,  let's see. There is =721, =723.
Here it is, =725. It's a nice-looking building. 
=Ella glanced at the paper again.  Third floor,
apartment four! 
The children trooped after her up the stoop.
Shouldn't we ring the bell first? asked =Gertie.
 The buzzer's out of order,=Ella replied.  =Lena said
we should go right up. 
 Come on, =Charlie, we'll swing you up the stairs, 
said =Henny.  Take his other hand, =Sarah. 
=Whooping with delight, =Charlie was swung up the
stairs. His feet never once touched the ground.



 You know, it's nice having company     it's not
the same living here anymore. It gets too lonely. I used
to have a big tabby cat. She's gone now, and I miss her
very much. She was certainly good company for me.
Why, she even liked the same television shows that I
did! Now that she's gone, I don't even like to watch
television. It makes me miss her even more. 
As =Jessica listened, she realized that Mrs =Johnson
was lonely. =Jessica thought for a moment. Suddenly
she had an idea.
 Thank you for the dessert, said =Jessica.  We have
to leave now. If you don't mind, I'd like to come back
soon and visit you. 
Of course. Come back any time. I love having
your company, said Mrs =Johnson.
As they walked out the door, =Sue said,  =What were
you talking about? I thought you didn't like Mrs
=Johnson. 
She's really very kind, said =Jessica,  even if she
does talk about being healthy. She needs company.
And the truth is, we need Mrs =Johnson! 


A bat sends out sounds from its mouth. The
sounds spread out through the air in waves. The sound
waves keep going until they hit something, like an
insect or a tree. Then the sounds bounce back to the
bat as echoes. Different things make different echoes.
By decoding these echoes, a bat can tell where it is
flying. It can tell where the insects are.
When a bat hunts for food, it first sends out slow,
putt-putt signals.  When insect echoes bounce back, the
bat speeds up the signals.
As they fly, bats seem to flip~flop in the air. l his is
because they turn quickly and spin around while
chasing insects. Bats are so quick, they can catch two
flies in one second. With the flick of a wing tip they
can toss flies toward their tails. Their tails scoop the
insects into their mouths. Bats are really expert
acrobatic fliers.
There are many different kinds of bats. Some are
very small. The largest ones have a wingspread of five
feet.


 No, son, his mother said.  =Rafael is bringing
some tourists to see how the black pottery is made.
You and =Concha must be ready to help. 
Then she said,  You must sweep the patio and set
out the chairs. Have the clay ready, too. Cover it well
with a wet cloth. 
=Mateo nodded.
 Put out a large =olla, one that is almost dry. When
I come back, I will finish it as the tourists watch.
 I will go now,=Mama said.  Adios! Till we meet
again!=She started down the road.
 Adios, =Mama! =Mateo answered.
After =Mama had gone, =Mateo sat on the ground.
How his fingers wanted to make another clay horse,
one that would help him remember =Panchita! If only
there were time to do it now! But he must do as his
mother said. =Mateo and =Concha got everything ready
for the tourists.


So they drank their lime juice and ate cheese omelet.
The gingerbread crumbled. The king frowned at the
crumbs on his plate. He said,  My queen should be
more than just wise and beautiful. She should also
know how to bake gingerbread. 
Now it was the =Lord =Chamberlain who sighed. For when =Pilaf had
become king, he had turned
=Mulligatawny inside out to find a gingerbread baker.
 There isn't one in my kingdom who can bake it to
a turn,the king was saying.  It should be neither too
hard nor too soft. It must be just properly crisp. 
Then the king called for their horses. Away they
rode to the kingdom of =Ghur. In =Ghur there lived a
princess as wise as she was beautiful. Her name was
=Madelon.

 I'm getting hungry myself,said =Elisabeth.
 I am, too, said =Charles. Then he started walking
in a way that reminded =Elisabeth of a tightrope walker
in the circus, putting one foot in front of the other and
balancing with his arms.
 What are you doing? she asked.
 I'm following the footsteps, see,he said.
=Elisabeth looked down and saw the tracks in the
wet sand.



What Is a =Friend
A friend is a person who likes some of the same
things you like.
A friend is a person who trusts you and
understands you. A friend likes you the way you
are.
A friend is a person who shares some of the
things you think are important.
A true friend already understands how you feel
about things without having to be told. Friends
understand how bad you feel because they hurt the
same way.
Friends don't expect you to be perfect. You do
the same for them.


The ancient =Romans and =Greeks knew about
dolphins and liked them. Dolphins were pictured
on old =Roman coins. They were carved in rare gems
and painted on walls. There are many tales of
dolphins in =Greek and =Roman poems and stories.
Some of the dolphin tales are made up. They
could not have happened. Other tales tell how
dolphins played around ships. They helped people
who were fishing by driving fish into nets. They
saved the lives of swimmers who were drowning.
All of these stories may be true. Dolphins do the
same things today.
Do dolphins make friends with people? Are the
old tales of children and dolphins true? For a long



I like to pretend I'm in a spaceship, don't you?
Suppose we were traveling in a spaceship far, far
out in space, almost as far as the moon. Suppose
we met a ship full of space people. And suppose
they asked us where our home is.
 Our world is planet =Earth,we'd say.
But suppose the space people hadn't traveled to
=Earth? What would we say then?
 Earth is a world with blue skies and yellow
sunlight,we'd say.  The sun is fiery bright, too
bright to look at, but you can see its light touch
everything.
 It often shines on us. We feel its warmth when



she was =15, she taught school. Three years later she
married a farmer, =Almanzo =Wilder. Those were
happy years. One of their joys was their child,
=Rose.
There were hard times, too. There was sickness,
and hailstones ruined the crops one year. Laura and
=Almanzo lost their farm. Still the =Wilders kept
their dream. They had always wanted to go to
=Missouri to live. So they saved their money, and
after a few years =Laura and =Almanzo had enough to
move.
The trip to =Missouri took a long time. Missouri
was more than six =hundred miles away, and the
=Wilders went there by horse and wagon. As they
traveled the long miles to their new home, they met
many people. Laura kept a diary about the people
they met. In the diary she wrote of the towns they
saw and the things that happened. At last they
reached =Missouri, and the =Wilders felt that they
were finally home.
The =Wilders loved =Missouri. At first they lived
in a tiny log cabin. Year by year they added to their
home. They planted an orchard. They raised hogs
and sheep, cattle, and goats. They made many
friends, too.



=Carlos was sitting with =Manuel on the steps outside
his house.
Uncle =Carlos slid his large, rough hands into the
side pockets of his overalls. He wore overalls every
workday.  Why, I carry many things in them,
=nino ,he said.  When I'm up on a ladder, building
a house, I keep my hammer in this loop. I carry
nails in this pocket and a level in this one. 
 What goes in the long, skinny pocket in the
middle? =Manuel asked.
Uncle =Carlos patted the deep pocket next to his
heart.  I keep some special things in this one, he
said.  It is never empty. 
Some special things? 
Yes,said =Uncle =Carlos with a grin.  Would
you like to see? 
=Manuel nodded excitedly, but =Uncle =Carlos
held up his hand.  I will show you what I keep
here. But you must promise me something. If I
share them with you, you must then share them
with everyone you meet. Can you do that? 
=Manuel thought a moment.  May I share them
with =Rosita? he asked.
Uncle =Carlos laughed.  Yes, share them with
your sister and your friends, too,he said.  The
&&000 HARPER & ROW  (1981)  3RD GRADE        HAR9813R.ASC
ZOOMING AHEAD & SAILING ALONG 
Grade 3-1, and 3-2 LIPPINCOTT BASIC READING
Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scan, edit by DPH 12-24-92

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 I wish something exciting would happen, 
=Henry often thought.
But nothing very interesting ever happened
to =Henry, at least not until one =Saturday
afternoon in =March.
Every =Saturday afternoon =Henry rode
downtown on the bus to go swimming at the
pool. After he had swum for an hour, he got
on the bus again and rode home just in time
for dinner.
When =Henry left the pool on this  
particular =Saturday, he had four dimes and a
nickel in his pocket. So he went to the corner
drugstore to buy a chocolate ice-cream cone.
He thought he would eat the ice-cream cone,
get on the bus, drop =twenty-five cents in the
slot, and ride home.
That is not what happened.
He bought the ice-cream cone with one of his
dimes. Then, as he was standing outside of the
drugstore licking his chocolate ice-cream cone,
he heard a thump, thump, thump.
Henry turned, and there behind him was a


The trip home seemed to take forever.
Neither =Chris nor his father said anything.
=Chris knew that he ought to explain why he
did not want the puppy. But he did not exactly
know himself. He only knew how he felt. But
he was sorry for the puppy in the cage.
 If we don't take the puppy, do you think
someone else will? he asked his father.
 They might. 
 Wouldn't it be unfair to =Bodger to get
another dog     right away, I mean? 
 =Chris, it might be a good way to show that
you loved having =Bodger. You would be  
rescuing another little dog and taking care of it. 
 Well, I don't want another dog, at least not
that dog. I don't want just any dog. 
=As the car pulled in the driveway, =Chris's
mother came out of the house.  Where's the
puppy? she asked.  I can't wait to see it. =She
looked at =Chris's face, then at his father's.
 What's the matter? What happened? 
=Chris picked up his bike from where he had
left it on the lawn.


 Dear =Pig, are you willing to sell for one
shilling
Your ring? =Said the =Piggy,  I will. 
So they took it away, and were married
next day
By the =Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.


=Ssssss-BOOM-ahhhhhh! A sky rocket  
sizzled up into the evening sky. A very tired boy
and a very tired pig were sitting in =Eb's wagon
watching the fireworks.
 Oh, =Pop! Look at that one! shouted =Zeke.
He squeezed his greasy pig in excitement. And
a very tired pig was thinking to himself,  =Now
I'll be the best pig in the world. I certainly
will. And I'll never, never, never      well,
hardly ever . 
He had heard =Zeke's father say,  A bargain's
a bargain, son. 
And then he heard =Zeke say,  Maybe I can
help you put in new tomato plants, =Pop. 
And =Zeke's father had said,  I'll need all the
help I can get, son. Looks like we're going to
have that pig around for the rest of our lives. 



they swung into their saddles when =Plo went
out to the patio and called:  =Aquidemi
=caballito, =Come here, my little horse. Once
again, out of a puff of rainbow-colored smoke,
stepped the little horse. =Pio said what he
wanted and the little horse answered,  Today
you must go dressed more richly than  
yesterday. =And again, =Pio stood magnificently
dressed, holding a rubber ball in his hand.
 Climb up, said the little horse, and off they
went, faster than the wind itself.
The town was overflowing with people who
had heard about the rainbow-colored horse and
the mysterious rider. At one end of the street
young men on horseback were lined up  
awaiting their turns to ride past the balcony. One by
one they galloped headlong down the street
throwing rubber balls every which way except
into =Leonor's lap. =Carlos and =Pedro were way
back near the end of the line. When their turns
came, =Carlos galloped off first. Remembering
his mistake of the day before, he threw the ball
very weakly, too weakly. It landed at =Leonor's



Are you hurt, =Fidelia? asked Mr =Toomey.
 Come here and let me take a look at you. Mr
=Toomey's voice was kind.
=Fidelia walked up to the front of the room.
 So you want to play in the orchestra, said
Mr =Toomey.  What do you want to play? 
 Violin, said =Fidelia.
 You are a bit young to be a violinist, said
Mr =Toomey.  The violin is a difficult  
instrument. However, we need someone to play the
tambourine. Would you like to try? 
=Fidelia looked up.  Yes, she said.
So =Fidelia played the tambourine with the
orchestra. It was fun, but it was not the same
as singing out the melody on a beautiful violin.

Her father said,  =You know, if you were on
=Earth, you could not walk on the wall. =Earth
would pull you down. 
=Rada's brother came into the room with two
containers of milk. He pushed down on the
floor with his feet. That made him move  
upward. When he let go of a container, it stayed
in the air.
 Thanks, =Jon. I'm thirsty, =Rada said. She
pushed the wall with her feet and moved
toward the container. She opened it and put a
straw into the opening.



=Roald was preparing next for a trip to the
=North =Pole but in the meantime, in =September,
=1909, word came that =Commander =Robert =E.
=Peary had already been there.
=Amundsen decided to try to be the first to
reach the =South =Pole. With several good
sailors, some dogs, and dog sledges, he set out
on the long and dangerous journey.
When they reached the great sea of snow
and ice, the men had to leave their ship and


About ten o'clock the three-legged races, the
horseshoe pitching, and the pie-eating contests
began. And then came the awful moment.
 Get ready for the greased pig contest! 
shouted Mr =Cullers.
 Oh, boy! screamed all the children.
 His name's =Greased =Lightning, shouted
Mr =Cullers.  Fastest, slipperiest hog ever seen
in these parts. 
Let us at him! screeched the excited girls
and boys.
But =Zeke, now crawling out from beneath
the bandstand, thought his heart would stop
beating. He saw his beloved pig, his own
=Greased =Lightning, dragged from his crate.


It was raining hard that night over a
=hundred years ago. The rain dashed against
the high windows of a church that was filled
with people. On the platform behind the pulpit
sat a group of women. The people in the church
had come from miles around to hear the
women speak for equal rights.


From then on everybody was watching to see
the white towers in the distance. Sometimes
there were several of them in a row, and then
they knew they were approaching a larger
town.
=Freddie, who was very hot, although it was
only early summer, now noticed that his
mother had a puzzled expression on her face.
She was gazing out of the car, looking closely
at the brown land that stretched out flat to the
horizon. She was frowning.
=Freddie said,  =Mother, I know that  
expression of yours. You are thinking about a  
question, but you are also thinking that you don't
have an answer to it. For an old asker of
questions, that is a problem! 
Mrs =Applegate turned, with a pleased smile.
She loved to have her children notice things
and think about them.  You're right, =Freddie,
=I'm wondering where the wheat is! It seems to
me that it has all been cut, or that it hasn't
grown at all. I don't know. After all, it's only
the second week in =July. 
=Freddie frowned and looked very carefully
at the ground. He saw what looked like little


=Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped to
her feet in a moment. She looked up, but it was
all dark overhead. Before her was another long
passage, and the =White =Rabbit was still in
sight, hurrying down it. There was not a  
moment to be lost. Away went =Alice like the wind,
and was just in time to hear the =Rabbit say, as
it turned a corner,  =Oh my ears and whiskers,
how late it's getting! =She was close behind it
when she turned the corner, but the =Rabbit
was no longer to be seen. She found herself in a
long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of
lamps hanging from the roof.
There were doors all around the hall, but
they were all locked. When =Alice had been all
the way down one side and up the other, trying



He then took the puppet under the arms and
placed him on the floor to teach him to walk.
=Pinocchio's legs were stiff and he could not
move, but =Geppetto led him by the hand and
showed him how to put one foot before the
other.
When his legs became flexible, =Pinocchio
began to walk by himself and to run about the
room, until, having gone out of the house door,
he jumped into the street and escaped.
Poor =Geppetto rushed after him but was not
able to overtake him. That rascal =Pinocchio
leaped in front of him like a hare. The puppet
knocked his wooden feet together against the
pavement, making as much clatter as twenty
pairs of peasants clogs.


=Thalia goes to =Grandma. She leans against
=Grandma's arm as =Grandma sings softly to the
baby. He is almost asleep. =Thalia touches his
head. She likes the way his hair feels.
 Keep your hands to yourself, =Thalia! says
=Grandma.
=Thalia goes outside. She sits on the cement
of the small yard in back of her building, right
under =Miss =Washington's laundry.
She runs her fingertips over the rough  
cement. It feels like sandpaper, like brick.
Near her foot =Thalia sees something blue.
She picks it up and rubs it against the cement.
The chalk makes a powdery, uneven line. It
does not go exactly where =Thalia wants it to
go, there are too many cracks in the cement.
=Thalia stands up to look at her piece of blue.
When she stands the cracks don't show so
much. The shape looks like a blue bug, all it
needs is legs. She draws legs and a house for
the blue bug. Then she signs her name.
=Thalia feels one drop of rain on her hand and
another on her back. A raindrop falls on the
blue bug. The light blue of the chalk turns wet,
like blue mud.



nearly so good as glass, but they did not have
glass in the wilderness.
Now =Abe could see smoke coming from the
chimney.  After dinner, he thought, as he
came up to the door,  I'll begin to read my
book. I hope I can finish it before the end of the
week. 
He slowly opened the door. It squeaked, and
a sudden gust of wind followed him into the
cabin.
 Abe, is that you? a voice called from
another room.  Hurry up and shut the door. 
=Abe closed the door.  I'm sorry I'm so late,
=Mother. Mr =Crawford still did not want to give
me the book. But Mrs =Crawford persuaded
him to keep his promise. =Abe took off his
woolen scarf, beaver hat, and bearskin coat.
He put them on the shelf in the cupboard and
laid his book on one of the three-legged stools
by the big table.
 What's the book about, =Son? Mr =Lincoln
asked. He knew that =Abe would do anything
for a book, no matter what it was about, for the
boy liked to read more than anything else. No
matter what he was doing, cutting trees,


=Chester had not gone very far when he met
=Pendleton on his skateboard.
 Where did you get the skateboard?  
=Chester asked.
 I made it, said =Pendleton.
 I have almost a full set of baseball cards, 
=Chester said.  Do you want to swap? 
 No, this is a neat skateboard. 
 These are neat cards, =Chester said, as he
fanned them out.
 I don't know, said =Pendleton, admiring the
skateboard that he had built himself.
 Take it or leave it, said =Chester, taking a
step as if to walk away.
 I'll take it, =Pendleton said, and before he
knew it he was holding the cards and watching
=Chester speed off on his skateboard.
&&000 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH  (1982)  3RD GRADE  HBJ9823R.ASC
UNDER THE MIDNIGHT STARS by Sam Leaton Sebesta
Source: Elmira College  xerox, scan, edit by DPH January 18, 1993

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I walk with my grandmother
along a sandy trail.
The sand beneath my feet
is damp and cool
because, last night
while  I was sleeping,
clouds rained down
upon our thirsty land.
Rain washed the flowers
of all the cacti,
the pincushion
and the cholla
 =CHOH-yah ,
the hedgehog
and the prickly pear.



We tried to explain to the cow how
sorry we were, but she wouldn't listen.
When a cow gets good and mad, she just
won't listen to anybody.
Then one day in =1934 the wind started
to blow. Oh, my! How it did blow! Harder
and harder until it blew all the leaves off
the trees. Stronger and stronger until it
blew the trees away, too. I had to tie down
the cow or she would have been carried
away. Even so, she sailed around in the sky
like a big cow kite.
I've never seen such a strong wind in
my whole life. I had just finished digging a
deep well in the backyard. I had to dig it
down =forty feet, and that was hard work.
But that wind huffed and puffed until it
blew the well right out of the ground and
carried it away. I never did see it again.



 Is that why you're running?  the man in
the river asked.
 Well, wouldn't you run if you were in their
position?  the river said.
The man jumped out of the water and
began to run with the others. They ran down
the main street of the village to the house of
the chief. The chief's servants brought his stool
out, and he came and sat on it to listen to
their complaints. The men began to recite their
troubles.
 I went out to my garden to dig yams,  the
farmer said, waving his arms. Then everything
began to talk! My yam said, Leave me alone!
My dog said, Pay attention to your yam! The
tree said, Put that branch down! The branch
said, Do it softly! And the stone said, Take it
off me!' 
 And my fish trap said, Well, did he take it
off?  the fisherman said.
 And my cloth said, You'd run too!  the
weaver said.
 And the river said the same,  the bather
said hoarsely, his eyes bulging.



The crocodile who had first spoken swam
up and tasted it. Delicious, mighty
delicious!  he said.
 Now if you don't mind,  said my father,
  I'll just walk along your back and fasten
another lollipop to the tip of your tail with a
rubber band. You don't mind, do you? 
 Oh, no, not in the least,  said the
crocodile.     



Her brothers, who were all older and
bigger and stronger than she, were thought
of all the time. And they were like four
rising suns in the eyes of their father.
Her three sisters were all older and
bigger and stronger than she. They were
like three midnight moons in the eyes of
their father.
But =Djeow =Seow was like a tiny star in
the emperor's sight. The emperor often
forgot he had a fourth daughter at all.



=Narrator: Mrs =Lioness went out to invite the
neighbors, while Mr =Lion stayed home to
prepare for the big affair.

SCENE TWO

Mrs =Lioness: =Hola! Mrs =Mare!

Mrs =Mare: =Hola! Mrs =Lioness. What are you
doing around these parts, my good friend?

Mrs =Lioness:  I came to invite you to a dance.
You and Mr =Horse have such fine long legs
and such strong hoofs. We need you for our
orchestra. Could you not come and play the
drum?



Though she always wanted to
become a writer, =Eleanor =Estes
 =EHS-teez  said,  I never really
decided to write for children. It
just happened that  I did.  She
has filled her warm and funny
stories with many memories of
her own childhood. Often, in
the middle of the night, she
would remember what
someone said or did. She
wrote these memories down,
and later used them in the stories she wrote.
=Eleanor =Estes grew up in =West =Haven,
=Connecticut. After graduating from high school,
she worked as a librarian. When her first book,
=The =Moffats, was published, she decided to
become a full-time writer. Several of her books
are about the adventures of the =Moffat family.



Once upon a time there was a poor miller
who had a beautiful daughter.

One morning, the king came riding by. He
stopped to talk to the miller. The miller wanted
to say something interesting. So he said: =King,  I
have a daughter, 

  I suppose she is beautiful,  said the king.

 Oh, yes. She is beautiful,  the miller said.
 But she is more than that. My daughter .
My daughter      can spin straw into gold! 

 Spin straw into gold?  said the king. =Hm.
Well! Tell your daughter to come to see me. 




They were almost done when =Katherine
and =Lucy came back. I hope =Grandma
=Otis doesn't spoil everything,  said =Lucy.
 She sounded suspiclous. She wanted to
know what we were up to. 
 What did you tell her?  asked =Amelia.
 The truth, of course,  smiled =Lucy. I
told her we were making lemonade and
were going to take it out to you. Then  I
asked her if she wanted some. Then
=Grandma looked down her glasses and said,
Young lady,  I smell something fishy. And
 I said, But, =Grandma =Otis, we haven't
been near the river. 
 And then we got out of there fast, 
said =Katherine. She shook her head,  If
=Grandma decides to come out here, you're
a goner. 
 At least my trip to =Chicago is,  said
=Amelia.

A Second Try
When the lemonade was gone, the girls
all helped to set up the track.



Since he was littler than me, while  I went
to school he used to stay home and play
with my toys.
I used to get so mad at my mother when
 I came home after school. Momma, can't
you watch him and tell him to leave my stuff
alone? 
Then he used to like to get up on my bed
to look out the window and leave his dirty
footprints all over my bed. And my momma
never said nothing to him.
I could never go anywhere without my
mother saying =Take =Stevie with you now. 
 But why  I got to take him everywhere  I
go?   I'd say.
 Now if you were staying with someone
you wouldn't want them to treat you mean, 
my mother told me.



The next day, which was =Sunday, =Maurice's
uncle was coming to visit. When =Maurice heard
that his uncle's big dog, =Patsy, was coming with
him, he went to his room and began to pile up
things behind his door.
=Maurice's father knocked, and =Maurice
opened the door a crack.
 =Maurice,  he said, you'll have to clean out
the hamster's cage. There's a very strong smell
coming from your room. 
 All right,  said =Maurice. I'll do it right
now.  He looked at the bear in its penguin
costume. I wonder if  I could spray you with
perfume,  he said.



 Cause you're sweet, 
said the beet.

 Say you will, 
said the dill.

 Think it over, 
said the clover.

 Don't rush, 
said the squash.
 Here's your dress, 
said the cress.

 White and green, 
said the bean.

 And your cape, 
said the grape.




 What are you saying, =Geraldine? 
=Eugene asked. I can't hear you. 
  I'm saying stupid clay!'  =Geraldine
snapped. Now will you be still? How can
 I sculpt you if you keep wriggling around? 
  I can't help it,  =Eugene whined. I'm
getting tired. My neck hurts. And  I think  I
have to sneeze. 
 Be quiet. And  I'm doing your mouth
now, so please keep it shut. 
=Eugene sighed. =Geraldine went on
molding and muttering.
Finally she said, There. It's done. I
think. 
&&000 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH (1983) 3RD GRADE  HBJ9833R.ASC
WIDENING CIRCLES by Margaret Early (3-1) LEVEL 8
RING AROUND THE WORLD    "         (3-2) LEVEL 9
SOURCE: SUNY Cortland: xerox, scan edit by DPH 1-11-93

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The =Grand =Canyon is  
important to scientists who
study the earth. They learn
many things from the rock
layers. The scientists study
the rock layers from bottom
to top. In this way they can
find out what the earth has
been like in the past. They
can read the earth's early
 story  in the rock.
The first, or bottom, layer
is the oldest. Scientists think
it is about two =billion years
old, that is, two =thousand
=million years.


hooked up with it. =Grandma used it anyway, she
said it was better than a clothes trunk.
Another time I remember, I had baskets and
baskets of fruit to take to market. But I had no
way to carry them there. I thought how nice it
would be to have a train of my own, so I put a bell
and a whistle in =Hatchy =Hen's nest. I waited and
waited, and she hatched and hatched.
The nest got bigger and bigger, and I was
sure she was hatching a train. But she didn't. Do
you know what she hatched? She hatched a
boat, and we lived a =hundred miles from the
nearest river. I never did get to use that boat.


Leaping is the kangaroo's way of getting
from one place to another. At usual speed,
the leaps of a large kangaroo are about one
and a half meters long. Most kangaroos are
found in =Australia. When a kangaroo runs
from danger, its leaps may be as long as
seven and a half meters!

Which sentence does not explain the
main idea? If you leave this sentence out,
does the paragraph make better sense?
Find the sentence that states the main idea in the
paragraph below.
Find the detail that does not explain the main idea.
How do the rest of the details explain the main idea?

Every kind of animal has special ways to defend itself.
Some animals hide when they are in danger. Some play dead.
Many run from their enemies. Some animals are easily tamed.
Others have built-in armor to protect them.


Do you think that that took care of the matter? Oh, no!
=Ookie was back in the seals pool before the
people had time to bat an eye or say,  =Ookie the
=Walrus.  =So again they pushed her back home.
But no sooner had they turned to go than she was
back in the seals pool again. And again.
 She's climbing the wall!  the keepers cried.
Indeed she was. She was having so much fun she
could have played this game all night.
At last some of the keepers went to =Ookie's
pool and spied on her. They sat in back and
watched her, making sure she couldn't see them.
They had to know how she did it.



Have you ever sent a letter by  bottle mail ?
If you have, you may never get an answer to it.
It may be that no one will ever get the message
that you put into the bottle.
 Bottle mail  is a very old way of sending
messages by sea. The message is put into a
bottle or into anything that floats. Then it is
thrown into the sea. It floats out of sight, carried
by the waves. It may or may not be found.


A city uses much of the space below ground.
It uses much of the space above it, too. The
=Green family lives on the =forty-second story of a
large city building. The building has more than
two =thousand rooms. The =Greens live in five of
the rooms.
Sometimes Mr =Green's daughter, =Martha,
goes to buy milk. Does =Martha get in the
elevator and go all the way down to the street?
She does not. She goes to the milk machine near
the elevator and puts her money in. Click, click,
out comes the milk!


Mining the Ocean. The
ocean floor has many metals
and other things we need.
Someday people will drive
machines across the floor of
the ocean to the mine and dig
up metals, just as we do on the
land today.
They will also explore for
oil, buried deep under the sea
floor.
Power from the =Ocean.
Another thing we will look for
in the ocean is power. People
will use the movement of
waves to turn wheels and
make electricity. Strong  
currents run through the ocean;
perhaps the currents will be
used to make electricity in the
same way that a windmill,
turned by the wind, makes
power.



Footsteps. Footsteps can be
fun to make. Place a pair of
shoes on your hands and
 walk  or  run  the shoes to
make the sound of footsteps.
If the people in the play are
walking across the floor, just
walk the shoes, hard, across
the floor. If the people are
walking along a stone path,
fill a box loosely with small
stones and walk the shoes on
the stones.
Most fun of all are the
sounds of shoes on creaky
floors or stairs. Find a long
board and put a brick under
each end. Walk your shoes in
the middle of the board. The
board will bend and creak,
just as if one were walking
along an old floor.



=Taro's mother bought tofu from a man who
came along the street every evening. But on this
cold, windy evening, the man did not come.
In their warm house =Taro and his mother
waited and waited until finally it was time to
cook supper.
 I wonder what has happened to him,  said
=Taro's mother.  This is the first time he hasn't
come without letting us know. 
 Shall I run to his shop?  asked =Taro.
His mother was unsure.  It's getting dark 
and cold, too. 



Artists often show the people, places, and
ways of living that are familiar to them. They
record their worlds in works of art. Through
their eyes we can see worlds that have long
since passed away. We can understand ways of
life that are very different from our own.
This drawing was done by an =Eskimo artist.
Look at it carefully. What does it tell you about
=Eskimo life? The drawing is simple, with strong
lines and shapes. It was made by cutting lines
into a stone; the picture was then printed from
the stone.

Hunters at the Floe Edge, by =Enooky


 I have two oxen at home and I have
measured them. You see the lines I've made;
please tell me, which ox is longer?  said =Elsa,
giving the king the second drawing.
He looked at her drawing and said,  =Why,
my dear woman, a child could tell that the one
on the top is longer. 
 You are the king, and you are always
right,  said =Elsa.  But please, would you be
good enough to measure them? 
The king called for a ruler and carefully
measured the lines.  Why, they are the same
size!  he shouted.



So the crocodile went below the water. In a
short time many crocodiles came up to the top of
the water. More and more rose, until the water
was covered with them.
The first crocodile rose again and said to the
hare,  Now you may choke on your words. Have
you ever seen so many crocodiles? 
 No,  the hare said,  I have never seen so
many crocodiles. But still they are not as many as
the hares. 
 You lie,  the crocodile said.  There are more
crocodiles ! 
 Very well, we shall count the crocodiles, then
the hares. Tell your friends to move more closely
together so that we may begin. 
&&000 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH (1986)  3RD GRADE   HBJ9863R.ASC
UNDER THE MIDNIGHT STARS by Sam Keaton Sebesta
Source: SUNY Cortland  xerox, scan edit by DPH February 1, 1993

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Then the giant pandas met a new
problem. The bamboo forests began to die!
A bamboo plant dies after it grows
flowers and produces seeds. The seeds
grow into new plants, but it takes at least
three years before the bamboo plants are 
big enough for pandas to eat.
During the time it takes for bamboo
plants to grow big, pandas can starve. So
people in =China and other countries
decided to help. Many people gave money
for  =Project =Panda.  =Rescue teams brought
the starving pandas to places where they
could be fed and cared for. These pandas
were moved to a preserve  =prih-ZURV , an
area planted with bamboo where the pandas,
would be safe. All over the world people
began to study pandas and to seek ways to
help the pandas survive.
Yet giant pandas are only one kind of
animal that is in danger of dying off. There ,
are many other endangered animals. People
are trying to save these animals, too.



The snowstorm was whirling around her,
blinding her, and she couldn't breathe. She fell
down in a snowdrift and was buried under soft
white snow.
The mother waited and waited for her
daughter. She peered out of the window and
rushed to the door, but there was no sign of her.
So she wrapped herself up warmly and went to
the forest. But how could she hope to find her
child in such a storm! She walked and walked,
and searched high and low, but she found
nothing.



 Is that why you're running?  the man in
the river asked.
 Well, wouldn't you run if you were in their
position?  the river said.
The man jumped out of the water and
began to run with the others. They ran down
the main street of the village to the house of
the chief. The chief's servants brought his stool
out, and he came and sat on it to listen to
their complaints. The men began to recite their
troubles.
 I went out to my garden to dig yams,  the
farmer said, waving his arms.  Then everything
began to talk! My yam said, Leave me alone!
My dog said, Pay attention to your yam! The
tree said, Put that branch down! The branch
said, Do it softly! And the stone said, Take it
off me! 
 And my fish trap said, Well, did he take it
off?  the fisherman said.
 And my cloth said, You'd run too!  the
weaver said.
 And the river said the same,  the bather
said hoarsely, his eyes bulging.



My father had an exciting adventure
when he was a boy, all because he found
an alley cat who told him about a baby
dragon. The cat had been on =Wild Island
when the dragon fell from a low cloud and
injured a wing. The animals of =Wild Island
captured the small dragon easily. Then the
lazy animals began forcing the dragon to fly
them across the river that divided their
island since the crocodiles in the river could
not be trusted.
My father set out to rescue the dragon.
First he sneaked aboard a ship bound for
the Island of =Tangerina. From there he went
to =Wild Island, where he had to outwit many
animals who wanted to eat him. At last he
got to the river. He knew the baby dragon
was on the other side.



The ancient sport of kite flying began
long ago in =China. No one knows for certain
when or where in =China kites were invented,
and no one knows who flew the first one.
Kites are found in many old =Chinese folk
tales. In this folk tale, a stick and, paper kite
is the favorite toy of a lonely =Emperor's
daughter named =Djeow =Seo7v .

Once in ancient =China there lived a
princess who was the fourth daughter of the
emperor. She was very tiny. In fact she was
so tiny her name was =Djeow =Seow, which
means  the smallest one.   And, because she
was so tiny, she was not thought very
much of, when she was thought of at all.



 But I'm =Olga =da =Polga,  she wailed,
addressing the empty air.  I've always been
=Olga da =Polga. I can't change now, I really
can't.  That night, long after darkness fell
and everyone else had gone to bed, =Olga
was still wide awake and deep in thought.
 I suppose,  she said to herself, for
what seemed like the hundredth time,
 I suppose I ought to be counting my
blessings instead of grumbling. I mean .
I have a nice new home     food      I'm
among friends      but I would like to keep
my own name, especially as I'm having it
painted on. 
The more =Olga thought about it the
sadder she became, for she couldn't help
remembering a remark one of the older
inhabitants of the pet shop had once made.
 Always hang on to your name,  he had
said.  It may not be much, but when
you're a guinea pig it's sometimes all you
have in the world. 
=Olga's own name was firmly imprinted
on her mind. 



That evening the king took the miller's
daughter into a very big room. There was
nothing in that room but
a chair, a spinning wheel,
and heaps and heaps of straw!

 Now spin,  said the king.  If you spin all
this straw into gold by morning, you will be my
wife. 

The king locked the door and went away.

When the miller's daughter was all alone, the
little man came again.

Again he said,  Good evening, miller's
daughter. What will you give me if I spin all this
straw into gold? 

 I have nothing left to give you,  she said.
 Nothing?  the little man asked.

 Nothing,  said the miller's daughter.

 I will help you,  said the little man.  But
you must promise to give me something.     

 Anything! Anything you ask!  she cried.



=Jimmy leaned his bike against a tree.
He sat down on the grass and watched.
 Who's going to go first?  he asked.
 We could draw straws,  said =Amelia.
 That would be fairest. 
 No thanks,  said =Katherine.  Not me.
You go first, =Amelia. 
 Yes, you first,  said =Lucy.  It was all
your idea. 
=Muriel looked up at the track slanting
out of the hayloft window and shuddered.
 Not me, =Meeley,  she said.  It looks
awfully high. 
 See,  =Jimmy taunted.  Your sister is
scared. Your cousins are scared. You're all
scared to try it. 
 Is that so?  said =Amelia.  Well, I'm
not scared. I'll gladly go first! 
=Amelia tested the track to make sure it
was firmly set on the ground. Then she
picked up the roller coaster car. She carried
it up the ladder to the hayloft and placed
it on the wooden track. And then she squeezed
herself inside the car. It was a tight fit.



=Maurice pulled and =Jacob pushed and they
got the bear up the stairs all the way to
=Maurice's front door and inside. Because of the
skates the bear moved easily on a level surface,
but it had been a slippery business getting it up
the stairs.
 I think we'd better wait a while before we
show it to my mother and father,  said =Maurice.
 They don't like surprises. 
 Mine neither,  =Jacob said.
=Maurice said,  =Why don't you get your hat
and coat and put them on the bear and maybe
they'll think it's you if we push him down the
hall fast. 
=Jacob went to get his outdoor clothes. They
dressed the bear, pulling =Jacob's hat almost all
the way down its muzzle. Then, running, they
pushed it down the hall. As they went by his
parents bedroom, =Maurice's father poked his
head around the door.
 Who's that?  asked Mr =Henry in a sleepy
voice.
 =Jacob!  said =Maurice.
 =Maurice!  said =Jacob. 
Mr =Henry went back to bed.  You shouldn't 
roller-skate in the house,  he said.



Okay, =Troll. We will do that.
But I am sitting on seaweed
to protect myself on all sides.

Then so am I.

So they sat very still
on big seaweed piles
with their hands on their heads
and their feet in plain sight
to see who was pinching.
They sat like that for a long time.
&&000 HARCOURT, BRACE, JOVANOVICH  (1987) 3RD GRADE  HBJ9873R.ASC
SUNBEAMS (3-1) & TELESCOPES (3-2) by Margaret Early, etal
Levels 8 and 9
Source: SUNY Cortland: xerox, scan edit DPH 12-26-92

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Look at the bar graph. The title tells what is
being shown. The labels along the bottom
name the things or activities that =Amy did.
Look at the numerals along the left side. On
this bar graph, the numerals show how many
hours =Amy spent on each activity.
Sometimes bar graphs are drawn so that the
bars go across instead of up and down. The
numerals on this kind of bar graph are usually
placed along the bottom while the things being
compared are listed on the left side. This is how
=Amy's time would look on this kind of bar graph.



Many people in =American like to save quilts and
other things from the past. These old things made
by hand help us remember the people who made
them. Because quilting is an art form that helps
us know about the past, some old quilts are kept
in museums.
Today people are still making quilts. They are
not just copying old patterns but also are
designing new ones. People will probably make
quilts for years to come. All that is needed to
make a quilt is bits of cloth, needles, thread, and
imagination.


=Tomie =dePaola started to work on children's
books by drawing the illustrations for them. He
says, IAs an artist, it is fairly easy to decide which
stories I will do. He sometimes draws the
illustrations for other authors books, but he also
writes and illustrates his own books. He says,
Writing my own stories presents a whole different
set of problems. The first is that I still find writing
difficult. I try not to get set ideas about pictures
until after I have written the story. Once the story
line is good and strong, then I can let my pictures
not only illustrate the story, but add to it. 


Then we had another surprise. =Gina's teacher
came over to us. She talked very slowly and very
carefully so my parents could read her lips. Then
she signed with her hands!
=Gina was excited. Her favorite teacher, who
wasn't deaf, had words in her hands, too. We were
learning there were many friendly people in our
new town who could talk with our parents. This
place wasn't going to be so bad, after all.
After the play, we went backstage to meet the
people in the acting company. The deaf actors
talked with people who knew sign language. The
hearing actors helped the other people understand
what was being said.
I think some of the hearing people around us
were learning something, too. Being deaf doesn't
mean a person can't hear or talk. If they have to,
people can hear with their eyes and talk with their
hands.



=Francisco goes out at dawn, too,  said =Mama,
 but he goes out to paint. 
 What great sights your eyes must have seen, 
=Papa said thoughtfully.
 Indeed they did,  =Guido agreed.  I have visited
the caves of the Indians and walked through
beautiful cities. 
 But never,  =Francisco asked,  never once did
you see the stones breathe at dawn? 
 Not once in all those months, my small friend, 
=Guido replied sadly.
Francisco winked at =Pornada. Should he tell
=Guido what he knew?



Just when she was ready to draw his back legs,
the rhinoceros flopped on the ground. He began
rolling over and over on his back.
 Oh, no!  cried the girl.  Why couldn't that
rhinoceros stay put!  She was so disappointed
that she threw her charcoal onto the sidewalk. She
picked up her drawing and threw it into a trash
can. Then she went off to watch the ducks.
=Eleanor was disappointed, too. She was about
to head back to her barn, when she discovered
that the charcoal was within easy reach. The
sketch pad and easel were also nearby.
Suddenly =Eleanor wanted very much to draw a
picture. She looked to make sure that the girl was
still watching the ducks. Then =Eleanor took the
charcoal in her trunk. =Eleanor quickly drew the
very first thing that came to mind, the face of
=Zonko the clown she remembered from the circus.
To start off, she made two crisscrosses for eyes,
two silly eyebrows and a long pointed nose, then
a crooked grin.
=Eleanor's drawing was far better than she
thought it would be. She smiled to herself as she
drew =Zonko's big ears. Then she put a tall hat on
his head. =Eleanor was nearly finished when suddenly
she was caught by surprise.



The man in the bike shop told them about it.
 A big hot-air balloon will take off from the
park this =Saturday. Only the wind knows which
way it will go. We'll follow it on our bikes. After
the balloon lands, the first two bikers who get
close enough to touch it will win a free ride in it. 
After breakfast each day, =Gina and =Grandpa
pedaled all over town. They rode uphill on
=Main =Street. They rode downhill on =Maple
=Street. =Gina counted live more posters.
Grandpa counted shortcuts.
 Only the wind knows which way the balloon
will go,  he said.  So we have to know the
shortest way to everywhere. 
On =Saturday =Gina and =Grandpa were up
before sunrise. After breakfast =Gina packed
apples and peanuts while =Grandpa pumped air
into their bicycle tires. At last =Grandpa put on
his cap and said,  I do believe we're ready.
Let's go chase that balloon. 
In thc park =Gina saw bicycles with great big
front wheels and little tiny back wheels. She
saw bicycles with two seats and four pedals.
She even saw something with only one wheel,
called a unicycle, but she didn't see a balloon.



What =Mike doesn't like is people who stare at
him. =Mike's legs don't work. He wears braces on his
legs. Since =Mike can't use his legs, he will always
need a wheelchair.
Now =Mike is at a new school. Here =Mike needs
help with some things. The cartons of milk in the
cafeteria are too far away for =Mike to reach without
spilling the tray in his lap. Mike also needs help
with all the doors. At first he was afraid to ask  
anyone for help. Everyone seemed to stare at him.
On the first day of school a boy named =Randy
grabbed =Mike's orange baseball hat and ran away
with it. =Mike hated his new school.
When =Mike told his dad about it, his dad said,
It's not easy, is it, =Mike? You have to live with all
kinds of people. A good place to start learning
about them is in school.  Mike said he'd still go,
but he wouldn't like it.
=Mike's teacher, Mrs =Kocher, must have noticed
his sad face, because one day she asked =Mike to
stay after school.
=Mike,  she said,  you don't like this school very
much, do you? 
 I sure don't, Mrs =Kocher,  =Mike said.  I'm the
only kid in a wheelchair. I feel so different. 



Some seeds travel in a surprising
way. They pop! The wild  
touch me not is a plant that spreads its
seeds by popping. In the summer
it has bright orange, yellow, or red
flowers. Green pods grow from
the flowers. Each pod holds five
parts with rows of seeds inside.
When the pods have grown to
their full length, the five parts  
suddenly shoot out in many directions. 
Then may travel as far as =2 yards or
=1 meters, away from the plant.
Flying, floating, hitchhiking,
and popping seeds are always on
the move. Many accidents may
happen to them. They may be
eaten by insects and animals.
They may land on poor soil or on
no soil at all. Still, enough seeds
live for many new plants to grow.
The next time you take a walk,
watch for the seeds of the many
trees and plants around you. Once
you begin to look, you will see the
tiny travelers in the air, on the
water, everywhere.



Now read paragraphs =A and =B. Decide which  
paragraph helps you see and hear what is happening.
The artist entered the
room. She dropped the
case she used to carry
her paints. All the jars
of paint broke and
spilled out over the
floor. The wind blew the
door shut behind her.
Thump! The artist
entered the room. Bang!
She dropped the case
she used to carry her
paints. Crash! =Splat! All
the jars of paint broke
and spilled out over the
floor. =Whoosh! The wind
blew the door shut
behind her.
Which paragraph did you think was more  
interesting? What words did the writer use to help you hear
sounds? In paragraph =B, the writer uses the words
click, bang, crash, splat, and whoosh to help you see
and hear what is happening.
As you read, look for the words that writers use to
help you see and hear sounds. When you write, try
to think of words to use that will help your writing
come alive for the reader.


In a sky of black velvet
The silver stars shine.
I think I'll choose one
And pretend it is mine.
I'll choose one that twinkles
And winks down at me;
Then snug in my bed every
Night I shall see
My very own star shining
Far overhead,
And winking good night to me,
Curled up in bed.


Lightning flashed. Thunder crashed. Rain dashed
against the windows.
Was =Miss =Moody worried? Not a bit. Her sturdy
house had been built by a sea captain. It could ride
out any storm. She smiled as she wondered what
surprises might be on the beach in the morning.
After a quick breakfast the next morning, =Miss
=Moody got out the old wheelbarrow. She and =Captain
=Kidd were ready for the treasure hunt.
The first thing she found was a pretty tin box which
was just what she needed for her postcard collection.
She stowed the box in her wheelbarrow.
The engineer used a wooden hand brake to stop the
train. The whole train could not be stopped at once. Each
car had its own hand brake which was on top of the car.
The engineer had to signal the other crew members in
order to bring the whole train to a stop. He signaled them
by pulling the cord of the train whistle. The crew members
then would climb up on the top of each car and turn the
hand brake. Turning the hand brakes took a long time.
After air brakes were inventecl all the cars could be
stopped at once. The crew used the hand brakes only if
the air brakes did not work.
The last car on the train was called the caboose. It was
also where the crew lived on long trips. It had beds
chairs and a place to cook. Many cahooses were painted
red. Many cabooses had high towers so that the crew
could look out to see what was ahead.
The train whistle was very important. Different whistle
sounds meant different things. Each sound was part of a
code. One short whistle meant to stop the train. One long
whistle meant the train was coming to a station.
There was also a whistle signal for backing off the main
track onto a small side track called a siding. Since there
was only one set of tracks one train had to wait on the
siding while the other train rode on the main track.
There was a telegraph machine and an agent at each
station. Telegraph messages helped tell the crew what was
ahead. The engineer had to know about any possible
trouble on the tracks so he could begin to change plans.
&&000 HOUGHTON MIFFLIN  (1983)  3RD GRADE     HM19833R.ASC
SPINNERS (3-1) & WEAVERS (3-2)
By William K. Durr et al
Source: SUNY Cortland: xeroxed, scanned, edited DPH 12-29-92

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I remember it was a warm, sunny afternoon.
=Glenmae had spent most of the morning
sharpening a large pair of scissors. I had no idea
what she was going to use them for, but it
didn't take me long to find out.
Before I knew what was happening, I was on
the ground. =Glenmae was cutting off my wool.
 It's called mohair, really.  It didn't hurt at all,
but I did kick up my heels some. I'm very
ticklish for a goat.
I might have looked a little bare and silly
afterwards, but my, did I feel nice and cool! So
I decided to stick around and see what would
happen next.
The first thing =Glenmae did was chop up
roots from a yucca plant. The roots made a
soapy, rich foam when she mixed them with
water. She washed my wool in the soapy  
mixture until it was clean and white.



 There must be something that we can do to
lift =Carruthers' spirits,  said =Emily.  And we had
better do it soon. If =Carruthers continues to act
the way he has been acting, he won't have any
friends left. 
 That's very true,  said =Eugene.  No one likes
a grouch. 
And so the two friends sat together on a large
rock and thought long and hard.
 Well,  =Eugene began, after a long pause.
 Whenever I'm in a grouchy and unpleasant
mood, I always listen to beautiful music. In no
time at all I feel much better. And I'm sure that
I'm much more pleasant to be around. 
That gives me an idea,  said =Emily.  Come
with me. 
The two friends hurried home, but in a few
minutes they were back in the park with their
musical instruments. =Emily was carrying her
tuba. =Eugene had his tambourine.
 What a good idea,  said =Eugene.  When we
smooth =Carruthers' rumpled nerves with our
beautiful music, he'll be his old friendly self again.
I'm sure that he'll be so grateful. 

Early next morning they put on old clothes
and left the camp. As soon as the last man had
gone, the =General went out to look at the gun.
The duck was still there, sitting on her nest and
=quacking to herself. The =General looked over
his shoulder to make sure that he was alone.
He took some cake from his pocket, put it
quickly down the gun, and then went back to
his tent.
Every day the men went to work in the
town. It was very quiet at the camp.  
Sometimes the =General would look at the town
through his glasses and watch the houses
change color. Sometimes he visited the =Prime
=Minister and his daughter and had tea in their
garden. Sometimes he would just walk as far as
the gun with a pocketful of bread.
Near the end of the third week, the eggs
hatched. The =General went by the gun and
heard not only  =Quack, =quack,  but also a tiny
 =Beep, =beep, =beep. 
The =General rang the alarm bell as loudly as
he could. At once the men put down their
paints and brushes and ran back to camp.
The =General called,  =Attention! The duck's
eggs have hatched.  He looked inside the gun.



 Put on your bathing suit, =Adan,  his father
said.  It's a wonderful =yagua day! 
=Adan could hear shouts and swishing noises
coming from the forest. He raced toward the
sounds. He saw boys and girls sliding down a
runway of grass and then disappearing over a
rock ledge.
Uncle =Ulise picked up something from the
grass.  This is a =yagua, =Adan,  he said.  It fell
from this palm tree. 
And this is what we do with it,  said =Adan's
father. He ran and then flopped onto the =yagua.
He slid down the grass, sailed up into the air, and
disappeared over the ledge. His mother found
another =yagua and did the same.
=Papi! =Mami!  cried =Adan.
Uncle =Ulise laughed.  Don't worry, =Adan. They
won't hurt themselves. The river is down there.
It forms a pool under the ledge. The rain makes
the grass slippery so you can slide right into
the water. That's what makes it a =yagua day!
Come and slide with us. 
That day =Adan found out what fun a =yagua
day is!

Sometimes =Rose took
=Megan to =Mike's shop. The
smell of the leather was the
same. But now =Mike did
not need =Megan's help.
Someone else cleaned up the
shop and swept up the bits of
leather.
=Mike talked to =Megan's
teachers at school.  =Megan is
no trouble,  they told him.
 But she will not try to do
anything by herself. You
must do your best to help. 
One morning, =Mike said to =Megan,  Have
=Rose bring you down to the shop after school.
We will go for a walk in the park when I am
through working. And we can go for a boat ride
on the pond. I will show you what a nice place
the city really is. 
=Megan smiled.  I'd like that very much,  she
said.
=Megan was really excited. She and =Mike
would have fun together, just the two of
them! It would be like old times.


Next day =Little =Elephant set off again to find a
Job.
 Remember,  said =Mother =Elephant.  Always
get there early when you are looking for a job. 
That night =Little =Elephant came home quite
discouraged.
 Did you get the job?  asked =Father =Elephant.
 No,  said =Little =Elephant.  I got there very
early, too. In fact, the sun was hardly up. I got
there earlier than anybody, even the boss. But
I didn't get the job. 
Too bad,  said =Father =Elephant.  What sort of
job was, it? 



The =Piglet lived in a very grand house in the
middle of a beech tree, and the beech tree was in
the middle of the forest, and the =Piglet lived in
the middle of the house. Next to his house was a
piece of broken board which had  TRESPASSERS 
=W  on it. When =Christopher =Robin
asked the =Piglet what it meant, he said it was his
grandfather's name and had been in the family
for a long time. Christopher =Robin said you
couldn't be called =Trespassers =W, and =Piglet said
yes, you could, because his grandfather was, and
it was short for =Trespassers =Will, which was short
of =Trespassers =William. And his grandfather had
had two names in case he lost one, =Trespassers
after an uncle, and =William after =Trespassers.
 I've got two names,  said =Christopher =Robin
carelessly.
 Well, there you are, that proves it,  said
=Piglet.
One fine winter's day when =Piglet was  
brushing away the snow in front of his house, he



leads him to the hive. The ratel grunts to let the
bird know he is following.
Upon reaching the hive, the ratel immediately
jumps on it, tears it apart with his claws, and
greedily eats the honey. The angry bees try to
sting the ratel, but he does not care. His thick fur
and tough skin protect him.
After the ratel has finished eating the honey, he
happily leaves, still surrounded by the angry
bees. When they are gone, the honey-guide is
finally able to get at the honeycomb and enjoy her
favorite meal.



the strongest beasts in the forest? Has it not been
said that the biggest fish shall eat the smaller? 
True enough,  answered the =Lion.  
 Something must be done.  And he set to thinking for
a while.
 I have it,  said he, after a while,  and a
splendid idea it is, even if I have to say it myself!
Listen. Which meat do we like the best? 
Goat's meat,  answered =Senora =Lioness.
 Right,  said the =Lion.  It is the finest, the
juiciest, and certainly the tasticst.
 Ah, =Senoramia  =seh-nyor'ahmee'ah , you
shall see,  explained the =Lion.
 But how are we going to get such fresh and
delicious meat?  asked the =Lioness.  To hear you
talk, one would think we are kings. 
 I will tell you,  said =Senor =Lion.  Listen
carefully. We shall give a ball, a grand ball, and
to it we shall invite our friends. You who are so
well liked will invite our neighbors, and they
will not refuse. Outside the back door we will
build a fire. When the dance begins and  
everyone is on the floor, I will push the goat and cast
him into the fire. The rest depends on me. How
do you like my plan? 
=Senora =Lioness thought for a while, shaking



no sense at all, putting sheep out, taking them in,
and prowling about among the snow and the cold
as if they had no brains in their heads. It is a
wonder that some of them don't get lost in the
snow.  
=Janet's mother was very quiet and spoke  
always in a soft voice.  If they got lost in the
snow, =Granny, you would have nobody to scold.
That would be terrible, wouldn't it?  she said.
Herself looked at =Mother, and =Janet watched
her change back into =Granny. Mother could
always make her do this.
=Granny smiled at =Janet.  But you are a clever
girl, finding the first lamb of the spring like
that,  she said.  Eat a big tea. You must be very
hungry after going such a long, long way, all by
yourself, to find that lamb. 



The owl's eyes popped open.  Are you  
talking to me? 
Yes,  said the toad.  Do you mind if I make
some tea? 
Oh, go ahead,  said the flabbergasted owl.
=Warton took some more things out of his
pack and prepared the tea.    Shortly, he had
a steaming pot of refreshing tea.
 It's ready, =George,  said the toad.
 What's ready?  growled the sleepy owl.
 Our tea. 
 I don't want any. 
But I've already got it poured,  said
=Warton.
 Oh, all right,  grumbled the owl.
So, by the light of the beeswax candles, the
owl and the toad sat down to tea.   


out and seek their fortunes. =Michael and =George
said good-by to the king and queen and mounted
their horses. Then out came =Petronella. She was
dressed in traveling clothes, with her bag packed
and a sword by her side.
 If you think,  she said,  that I'm going to sit
at home, you are mistaken. I'm going to seek my
fortune too. 
 Impossible!  said the king.
 What will people say?  cried the queen.
 Look,  said =Prince =Michael.  Be reasonable,
=Pet. Stay home. Sooner or later a prince will
turn up here. 
=Petronella smiled. She was a tall, handsome
girl with flaming red hair, and when she smiled
in that particular way, it meant she was trying to
keep her temper.
 I'm going with you,  she said. 

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It was a cold, snowy evening, but the streets of
=Albany, =New =York, were crowded with carriages
drawn by fine horses. Women in long skirts and men
in top hats smiled and nodded to one another and
called,  =Happy =Holidays! 
Through the lines of carriages came the post office
wagon bringing large sacks of mail from the railroad
station to the post office. Running along beneath the
wagon was a shaggy little puppy. He had to run hard
to keep up with the horses, but this place, under the
wagon, was safe. It was the only safety the small
brown puppy had found from the dangers of the busy
city streets. The wagon also kept the snow off him,
although he was already so cold and wet that it hardly
mattered.
Worse than being cold and tired was being  
hungry. The hunger made the puppy weak, and after a
while he fell. Part of him just wanted to lie there and
give up, but the stronger part of him said NO. He
got up and ran until he had caught up with the mail
wagon and was once again running beneath it.
Then the wagon slowed down and went into a
place that was dark, quiet, and warm! The wagon
stopped, and so did the pup.
Soon there were people around the wagon. The
puppy saw black boots, gray pants legs, and huge
gray bags labeled =US =MAIL.
When all the black boots were on one side of the
wagon, the pup trotted out on the opposite side and
climbed up onto the nearest gray sack, which was not



Another way to handtalk is to use sign language.
You have to learn many signs that other people
understand before you can talk in sign language. But
once you have learned it, sign language is easier and
faster than finger spelling.
=Gina, =Diane, and I are learning new signs all the
time. My mom and dad learned sign language when
they were little. They taught us signs when we were
young, just as hearing parents teach their children
words. Our grandparents, friends, and neighbors
helped us learn to talk.



When they returned home, no one could sleep so
they sat together around their small fire. There
seemed to be no answer to their problem.
 If I were big, I'd force the knights to leave,  said
=Harald.
 No one is big enough to do that,  answered
=Helga,  except another knight. 
=Walter said nothing, but his hands began weaving.
The giant shadows his father cast on the wall gave
=Harald an idea.
 I know how we can get rid of the knights!  he
said.
His father stopped weaving.  What do you mean,
son?  he asked.
Well, why can't we make a knight to frighten
them? 
Just how would we do that, =Harald?  asked
=Helga.
 Father is an expert weaver, isn't he? He can weave
just about anything. Why can't he weave a giant
knight? 
=A smile spread over =Walter's face.  Let's hear
more,  he said.
Excitedly they talked late into the night as idea led
to idea. By morning, they had a plan.
From the next day on, =Harald's family spent all
their time at the cave weaving their giant. =Harald
made trip after trip to the cave, bringing =Walter great
bundles of reeds.



 When I grow up,  I tell her,  I too will go to
faraway places and come home to live b~ the sea. 
That is all very well, little =Alice,  says my  
great aunt,  but there is a third thing you must do. 
What is that?  I ask.
 You must do something to make the world more
beautiful. 
All right,  I say. But I do not know yet what that
can be.


Dear =Sir,
Yesterday I received a monster. There
are a few things wrong with it. It is
not =48 inches tall. It did not talk or walk.
And it popped a few minutes after I got it

I Would like my money back.
His mother and father looked at each other across
the breakfast table, and they both said they thought it
was a good letter.
After breakfast =Buffy and =Julius put =George on
the leash and went off to mail the letter.
In a dusty little office in a warehouse in =Fresno,
=California, a secretary named =Iris was sitting at her
desk. All around her, from the floor to the ceiling,
were shelves filled with cardboard cartons. The  
cartons were all labeled. There were labels like:

So he took hold of =Pooh's front paws and
=Rabbit took hold of =Christopher =Robin, and all
=Rabbit's friends and relations took hold of  
=Rabbit, and they all pulled together.   
And for a long time =Pooh only said
 =Ow!  
And  =Oh! 
And then, all of a sudden, he said  =Pop!  just
as if a cork were coming out of a bottle.
And =Christopher =Robin and =Rabbit and all
=Rabbit's friends and relations went  
head-overheels backwards    and on the top of them came
=Winnie-the-Pooh, free!    
So, with a nod of thanks to his friends, he
went on with his walk through the forest,  
humming proudly to himself. But, =Christopher =Robin
looked after him lovingly, and said to himself,
 Silly old =Bear! 


My friend =Snitch said,  I hope it gets us some
business. We spent all our money on this ad.  =He
pulled his ear. Snitch always pulls his ear when he's
upset.
The phone rang. I answered. It was the first call
on our ad. A woman said her name was =Flora
=Greene. She told me she needed help right away.
=Snitch and I rode our bikes straight to her house.
The yard was filled with bushes and plants. It
looked like a forest. =Flora =Greene asked us inside.
Behind her a small piece of fluff jumped about.  Is
that a dog?  I asked, making a guess.
 Of course,  she said.  That's =Hercules.  At the
sound of its name, the fluff wiggled. I reached over
to pat it.
=Flora =Greene took us through the house to the
back yard. She had a greenhouse there full of plants
and flowers.

MYSTERIES SOLVED

A DOLLAR A DAY

=DEKE =KING AND FRIEND
THE UNDERCOVER KIDS


Dinosaurs lived long, long ago. A few
of them were as small as birds, but most
were enormous. Some dinosaurs ate
plants, while others were meat-eaters.
Dinosaurs lived on every continent
in the world. Then they died out. No
one knows for sure why they became
extinct, but they did.
Until about =200 years ago, no one
knew anything about dinosaurs. Then
people began finding things in rock.
They found large footprints, huge
mysterious bones, and strange teeth.
People were finding fossils. Fossils are a
kind of diary of the past. They are the
remains of plants and animals that lived
long ago. Instead of rotting or
crumbling away, the remains were
preserved and slowly turned to stone.
What a discovery these fossils were!
But digging up dinosaur bones was not
an easy job. The bones had to be dug
out of the ground, slowly and carefully.
Even today, digging up dinosaurs is
not an easy job. A team of experts must
work together.
First, they have to find a spot where
a dinosaur once lived. The spot may be
in a deep quarry, on a high cliff, or in a
steep canyon.


=Emily set her tuba on the bench and sat down
beside it.  Just because we could not improve  
=Carruthers' mood with our music, does not mean that
we should give up. We must think of another way. 
 Yes,  replied =Eugene,  we must not give up. 
So once again they thought long and hard.
 Whenever I am in a grumpy mood,  said =Emily,
 I always have a little snack. I'm sure that a tasty
snack would be just the thing for =Carruthers. Maybe
he hasn't been getting enough to eat lately. Why
don't we invite him to lunch for honey cakes and
tea? You know how fond bears are of honey cakes. 
What a clever idea,  said =Eugene.  Let's go to
your house right away and send =Carruthers an
invitation to come to lunch. 


Believe me, dragon,  said =Klaus,  I don't
want to make you into stew. I didn't think there
were any dragons when I made up that silly old
recipe. I just wanted to fool the king into
thinking I was a cook. I couldn't make any stew
if my life depended on it, and it probably does.
The king will be rid of me when he finds out
that I fooled him. 
Oh, making stew is easy,  said the dragon.
 You soak the meat in vinegar, brown it in
butter, and simmer it slowly in its own juice
with onions and carrots. And then 

 I felt the same way on my first trail drive,  =Pa
said.  You'll be fine. 
=Davy put on his hat. He climbed onto his horse
and followed =Old =Blue up to the head of the herd.
One of the cowboys gave the old =Texas call,  =Ho,
cattle, =ho, =ho, =ho, =ho!  =Soon the steers were strung
into a line a mile long with =Old =Blue leading. There
were over a =thousand of them.
=Davy watched =Old =Blue walk steadily to the
north. No one understood how =Old =Blue knew
directions as well as he did. Sometimes =Old =Blue
walked too fast, and the lead cowboys had to slow
him down.
 I don't like the looks of the sky,  one of the  
cowboys said.
 It could be a northern.  =Davy shivered. A storm
like that might bring icy weather, and they had a
long way to go.
They had left the =Goodnight ranch in =Palo =Duro
=Canyon, =Texas, a week ago. It would take two
months to bring the herd into =Dodge =City, =Kansas.
=Davy guided his horse past tumbleweeds rolling
slowly in the breeze. Sand crunched under hooves
and rose in little gold clouds.
Cattle often tried to stop and eat dry clumps of
grass. When they wandered into low trees, the  
cowboys had to drive them back to the herd.
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Low tide
and the beach becomes

The sea's department store
of treasures:

Conch shells, cat's eyes,
olives, and sundials,

Sea stars, sand dollars,
and a host of

White to brown little ones

All crowding the bargain counters.

What do we pay
for these treasures?

That's the lovely part!

Just a smile and a wave
to the swooping gulls,

A race on the sands
with a sandpiper,

A shriek of joy when the tide
catches us unaware

The shells are free to enjoy.

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As they talk, my fingers begin a river on my
thinking wood. The wood will winter in my pocket
so when I am not at =Grandpa's house I can still think
about =Nanna, =Grandpa, and the river.

When =Nanna is finished working, =Grandpa runs his
hand over the sculpture, his fingers soft and quick
like butterflies.

"It looks like me," he says, surprised.
My eyes have already told me that it looks like
=Grandpa. But he shows me how to feel his face with
my three middle fingers, and then the clay face.

"Pretend your fingers are water," he tells me.

My waterfall fingers flow down his clay head,
filling in the spaces beneath the eyes like little pools
before they flow down over the cheeks. It does feel
like =Grandpa. This time my fingers tell me.

=Grandpa and I walk outside, through the front
yard and across the field to the river. =Grandpa has not
been blind forever. He remembers in his mind the
gleam of the sun on the river, the =QueenAnne's lace
in the meadow, and every dahlia in his garden. But he
gently takes my elbow as we walk so that I can help
show him the path.

"I feel a south wind," says =Grandpa.

I can tell which way the wind is blowing because I
see the way the tops of the trees lean. =Grandpa tells
by the feel of the meadow grasses and by the way his
hair blows against his face.

When we come to the riverbank, I see that =Nanna
was right. The water is high and has cut in by the

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The ice skates of her dreams were snow-white
with gleaming blades. They had red pompons, and
little bells on the laces. On the front of the blades
were little saw-toothed points, like little teeth.
=Marsha didn't know what the teeth were for, but she
knew that they were important to a figure skater.

=Marsha herself had never skated with real ice
skates on real ice. Sometimes she skated without
skates. She would stand alone in her room, her arms
lifted in the empty air. She would bend forward and
extend one leg behind. She could even imagine the
coolness drifting up from the ice. But that was not
nearly as satisfying as being the champion star skater
who lived in her head.

Her older brother =Leonard had ice skates with
long, straight racing blades. He had mowed lawns
one summer and bought them with the money he
earned. Last winter, on one of his good mood days,
he had taken =Marsha with him to the lagoon where
everyone skated. =Marsha had run and skidded about
in her snow boots. But her legs had felt leaden and
her heart couldn't soar. She felt miles away from
being the beautiful skater of her dreams.

=Summer came with all the long, warm days.
=Marsha turned nine. She learned how to swim. She
rode on swings in the park. She helped her mother
weed the garden. She played detective with her best
friend. But =Marsha's dream followed her into =summer. At night,
while the warm air drifted through her
open window, she dreamed of ice skating.

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     The =LupineLady lives in a small house overlooking the sea. In
between the rocks around her house
grow blue and purple and rose-colored flowers. The
=LupineLady is little and old. But she has not always
been that way. I know. She is my great-aunt, and she
told me so.

Once upon a time she was a little girl named =Alice,
who lived in a city by the sea. From the front stoop
she could see the wharves and the bristling masts of
tall ships. Many years ago her grandfather had come
to =America on a large sailing ship.

Now he worked in the shop at the bottom of the
house, making figureheads for the prows of ships,
and carving Indians out of wood to put in front of
cigar stores. For =Alice's grandfather was an artist. He
painted pictures, too, of sailing ships and places
across the sea. When he was very busy, =Alice helped
him put in the skies.

In the evening =Alice sat on her grandfather's knee
and listened to his stories of faraway places. When he
had finished, =Alice would say, "When I grow up, I
too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I
too will live beside the sea."

"That is all very well, little =Alice," said her grandfather, "but
there is a third thing you must do."

"What is that?" asked =Alice.

"You must do something to make the world more
beautiful," said her grandfather.

"All right," said =Alice. But she did not know what
that could be.

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     He fell down the side of the sack, but landed
running. He went to the nearest man, and the miracle
happened. He was given food, a crust of the sandwich. It was gone
before he'd even tasted it.

"He's starving, the poor little devil," =Buck said.
=Buck gave the pup the rest of the sandwich, meat
and all.

"What can we do with him?" =James asked. "We
can't put him out on the streets. He'd never live."

=Buck scratched his head. "Well, I can't take him
home. =King would be jealous if I brought another
dog into the house. He thinks he owns the place."

"And I can't," =James said. "No pets are allowed in
our apartment. He's a cute little beggar, though, isn't
he?"

They thought some more. Then =James said, "Let's
just keep him here. He can be our mascot. It won't
take much to feed him. And he'll be good company,
especially at night."

And so the pup stayed on. =Buck and =James named
him =Owney, and they fixed a bed for him in a warm
corner of the office. The bed was an empty mail sack,
folded over. The other men on the night shift soon
found out about the pup. They began bringing extra
food in their dinner pails. Before long the thin little
dog was a fat and happy puppy. He had thirty loving
owners.

By the time spring came to =Albany, =Owney was
large enough, and curious enough, to go exploring.
He trotted up and down all the streets near the

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     As the years passed, the harness held many tags.
There were ones from =Mexico and =Alaska. There were
other tags from every state. Back and forth across the
nation, trains rattled and roared. From the crack in
the mail car door peered two bright black eyes in a
shaggy face.

Late one evening, when =Owney was seven years
old, he was at home in =Albany. =Buck and =James
talked about his travels as the men ate their midnight
supper.

"There's only one place =Owney hasn't been," =Buck
said thoughtfully.

"Where's that?"

=Buck looked up at =James and slowly began to
smile. "Around the world."

Three hours later =Owney was aboard the westbound =3'50. On his
back was his traveling packet


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     I didn't giggle. But I slammed the dictionary down
on your desk.

It made a big bang.

Everybody jumped. I jumped too. And that's how it
finally got quiet.

It got quiet just before you came in the door.

I was a terrible monitor. I'll never be able to be a
teacher.

Love,
=Hannah
P.S. Do I still get the cough drop?

=Hannah went up to the pencil sharpener again
and sharpened her pencil till there was nothing left
but a point on one end and an eraser on the other.
She dropped the note on Miss =Pepper's desk on her
way back to her seat.

Miss =Pepper read the note.

When she finished, she said, "Well, of all things!
=Hannah, this sounds just like a description of what
happened to me on the very first day of the very first
year I was a teacher! I know exactly how that feels. I
slammed a book down like that myself! That's when I
started to make =MissPepper'sRulesandRegulationsofGoodBehavior. Now
if there's one thing I like it's
an honest person! You used your ingenuity, and
that will be the new word for tomorrow. All right,
=Otto, stop that groaning. Would you like to clap the
erasers together now, =Hannah? And would you like a
cherry or a licorice cough drop?"

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     "=Mama," cried =Katya, as she peered through the
cottage window, "Old =Boris, the moneylender, is
coming down the road in his horse cart."

"Let him come, little one," answered =Katya's mother, as she worked
warm dough for bread. The
dough made a soft slapping sound against the wooden table.

=Boris and =Alexei, the small boy who kept his
accounts, drew up before the cottage, and the gentle
sounds of the house were shattered by the old man's
loud pounding on the door. "Widow =Petrovna," he
shouted, "I have come to collect your monthly rubles
due me from the loan of silver to your late husband."
His eyes were topaz yellow, like a cat's eyes, and his
voice rasped with the sound of greed. =Alexei stood
with his ledger book and pen, waiting for the rubles
to be dropped into his master's soft leather purse.

=Mama stood behind =Katya, slowly wiping her
floury hands on her apron. "Tomorrow, Old =Boris,"
she said, "I shall send you a fine fat goose and gander.
My daughter will bring them to your house in the
city. Today they would make a clamor in your cart,
and the ride would upset the goose's laying. They
will be my payment to you this month."

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     =Josephine wandered through the big, noisy market. All along
the sides of the square were little shops
where people were busy buying or selling or cooking
or making things.

=Josephine loved the shop with a sign that said,
"The Fine Sweet Shop." It smelled of fresh baked
goods, bread and cakes and little sweet tarts. =Josephine watched
the baker working in the little room
just beyond. How busily and expertly he worked
with the brightly-colored frostings, shaping, pushing, forming the
delicious things to eat. How quickly
he worked. What good use he made of everything
around him! Nothing was wasted, nothing at all.

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She climbed aboard. The bus moved on, stopping
now and then at hogans along the way. =Annie sat
there alone and made her plan.

In school, she would be bad, so bad that the
teacher would send for her mother and father.

And if her mother and father came to school to
talk to the teacher, that would be one day when her
mother could not weave. One day.

On the playground, =Annie's teacher was in charge
of the girls' gymnasium class.

"Who will lead the exercises today?" the teacher
asked.

No one answered.

The teacher laughed. "Very well. Then I shall be
leader." The teacher was young, with yellow hair.
Her blue skirt was wide and the heels on her brown
shoes were high. The teacher kicked off her shoes and
the girls laughed.

=Annie followed the teacher's lead, bending,
jumping, and she waited for the time when the
teacher would lead them in jogging around the
playground.

As =Annie jogged past the spot where the teacher's
shoes lay on the ground, she picked up a shoe and hid
it in the folds of her dress.

And when =Annie jogged past a trash can, she
dropped the shoe inside.

Some of the girls saw her and laughed, but some
frowned and were solemn.
&&000 MACMILLAN   (1980)   3RD GRADE               MAC9803R.ASC
SECRETS AND SURPRISES (3-1) by Carl B. Smith & Ronald Wardbaugh
FULL CIRCLE   (3-2)                "                 "
Source: SUNY Cortland: xeroxed, scannned, edited by DPH 1-11-93

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Suddenly, every camera, every microphone,
and every face turned toward =Smerb.  I just 
want to say,  said =Smerb,  that I'm here
only because we ran out of =Vitamin =Z at the
dog pound. I'm from the =Lincoln =Animal
=Society upstate, and so are my four-footed
friends here. New =York is a nice place to
visit, but I don't like to drive here. 
The crowd cheered wildly. The mayor and 
the police clapped. The cameras and the
microphones worked away. When it was quiet
again, a woman from the =PBT television
station pointed her microphone at the smiling
mayor and said,  =Mayor, it is wonderful
that you have found the =Ultimate =Auto. But
the traffic is still stuck, so can you tell us
how you're going to get it moving again? 



When they came to the corner of =Beacon
=Street, there was the police car with four
policemen that =Clancy had sent from
headquarters. The policemen held back the
traffic so Mrs =Mallard and the ducklings
could march across the street, right on into
the =Public =Garden.
Inside the gate they all turned round to say
thank you to the policemen. The policemen
smiled and waved good-by.
When they reached the pond and swam
across to the little island, there was
Mr =Mallard waiting for them, just as he
had promised.
The ducklings liked the new island so much
that they decided to live there. All day long
they follow the swan boats and eat peanuts.
And when night falls, they swim to their little
island and go to sleep.   



Part Two The Wish

=Sillibill was happy that he now had a
free wish. But he decided to wait until he
could think of something clever. Since
nothing came to his mind, he soon forgot
all about the little blue man and his wish.
He walked on until he came to a town
that looked very odd. Houses, roofs, doors,
windows, all were round. As he walked
through the streets, he noticed another
strange thing. Wherever he looked, he saw
signs with =Don't's. 


 I have a still better hat,  said the  
storekeeper.  But it's made of felt. 
 I don't want a better hat,  =Simon =Boom
said.  I want the best hat. 
 Very well,  said the storekeeper.  The
very best hat I have is made of wool. It will
keep your head warm on the coldest day. 
 If it is the very best, I'll buy it,  said
=Simon =Boom. And he did.



During these years he was often cold,
hungry, and sad. But he kept on painting
and painting and painting. The people
he saw along the waterfront and on the
streets were cold, hungry, and sad, too.
He watched them. Then he went home to
his tiny studio and painted them. He
tried to remember just how they looked,
and how they made him feel. These years
have become known as his  =Blue =Period. 
During this period, the colors of his
pictures were mostly blues, greens, and
grays. These colors reflected his sadness
and the sadness of the people he painted.



 I do, too,  said =Margarita.  It's easier for me
to shop in =Mexico. I speak better =Spanish than
=English. 
The next game was guessing the number of
beans in a jar. =Margarita didn't even come close.
She guessed =77, and there were =139 beans in the
jar! The winner of the guessing game got six
=Mexican jumping beans for a prize.
 Hold them in your hand and warm them up, 
said =Barbara to the winner.  Then the beans will
begin to jump. 



The little tadpole had not heard of =Thurman's
troubles, and so he stayed to play. But it was
not long before he too noticed something odd
about =Thurman. Then he began to laugh.
 What is it?  cried =Thurman.
The little tadpole laughed and laughed. His
tail shook and he swam round and round. At last
he stopped and turned to =Thurman.
 Things,  he cried,  are growing under your
tail! They look like little stumps. What's the
matter with you, =Thurman? 



Fireworks have been around for about a
=thousand years. But where did they come from?
The =Chinese people may have invented them
But nobody knows for sure.

How did fireworks come to be? Again, we can
only guess. But chances are, they began with
an accident!
The colors in fireworks come from chemicals
The exploding chemicals make fireworks as
noisy as they are. Maybe, long ago, chemicals
cooking in a pot bubbled over into the cooking
fire. They hit other chemicals in the fire and
exploded. =Blam! Can you imagine what a
surprise that must have been?
For many, many years people everywhere
have celebrated special days with the  
wonderful sights and sounds of fireworks. Over the
years people have learned to use fireworks to
put on more and more amazing shows. They
made many different kinds of fireworks. Some
of these are rockets, firecrackers, fire fountains,
and pinwheels.
Now there are even fireworks that make
fantastic pictures in the air. They make pictures



=Joe said,  Are they going to take away our
pile of dirt? 
=Arleen said,  They can't. 
Two little kids started to cry.
I said,  Keep still, you kids. Let me think. 
The ladies were pointing at our things and
talking. The =Mayor kept shaking his head.
I thought,  I have to do something. 
Then, before I could think any more, I marched
out. I felt as if someone were pushing me, only
no one was. I walked right in front of them and
said,  Please leave our stuff alone. 

=Kate jumped up and ran outside, pushing
the letter into her pocket.  Nothing strange ever
happens here at =Shadow =Lake,  she sighed,
walking slowly along beside the stream.
A mile down, the stream ran into =Shadow
=Lake, which gave its name to the town where
=Kate lived. She liked =Shadow =Lake in the
summer, when people came from the city. But
in winter, it was dull. Her only fun was making
up stories like the one about the lion she saw in
the woods. The lion was really Mrs =Rico's cat.
Kate went on around the lake until she came
to a sign that said =SMITH  
away, she could see some people getting =Lake
=Road ready for summer. The countryside was
nearly ready, too, =Kate noticed. The colors of
the leaves and flowers were even more beautiful
after the rain.

 


White dust appeared as he openedthe box. All at once =Taro became
an old man with white hair and a long
white beard. Then, softly, from over the water, he
heard the sad voice of the princess.  Oh, =Taro, =Taro, my husband,
my beloved . You promised me that you would never open the lacquer
box. It was your life I had closed up in the box so that you would
never grow old. Farewell, =Taro. Farewell, beloved, farewell.
And then the voice of the princess was lost. =Taro, an old man,
could hear only the sound of the sea waves as they hit the beach at
his feet. 


I like the word, space,
A mighty word
With room for ace and pace and even =Cape
Between its s and e;
A word suggesting air and race,
Expanse, escape,
Mystery.
In short,
Suggesting
SPACE,
That magnificent
Place.
&&000 MACMILLAN  (1983)  3RD GRADE           MAC9833R.ASC
SECRET SURPRISES & FULL CIRCLE
Source: Kutztown U. xerox by LW; scan/edit DPH 12-22-92

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The next morning, as the sun came up, =Ricky crowed
to wake everyone. Then, after a big breakfast, =Zym went
out to watch =Thompson do his work.
He was amazed to see =Thompson milking the cow.
But he was even more amazed to find the egg in =Myra's
nest.
 What kind of animals do you have on your planet? 
=Thompson asked him.
 Oh, we don't have room for animals any more,  =Zym
said.  We need all the space for machines and houses
and moving roads. We do have some cats and mice,
but they aren't real. They are just for playing with. You
push buttons, and the cat runs after the mouse. I find
it very dull. 
How sad not to have any animals,  said =Thompson.
 But come, let's look around a bit. 



=Alice had written that her family would be at
the lake in four weeks. =Kate walked up the path
to the =Smith's house.  I wish =Alice were here
right now,  she thought.  We could have so
much fun. 
The big house stood quiet and closed, as if it
were sleeping. Kate looked at it carefully. Then
she walked up to the front door.  Everything
looks all right to me,  she said to herself.  But I
wish I could check inside, too. 
=Kate walked back down the path and sat on a
stone bench near the house. Taking out =Alice's
letter, she read again: =Four more weeks and  
then just you and me and the old =sp remember?
How could =Kate forget? The letters =sp stood
for  secret passageway!  It was in the =Smith's
house, and it went all the way from the cellar to
=Alice's room on the second floor. Every summer,
=Kate and =Alice would hide there when they 
wanted to get away from =Alice's little brother.  
It was their special place.



Have you ever heard the word aloha? It's a word
that comes from the state of =Hawaii. It also says a lot.
about the people who live there.
The word aloha means many different things. It
means  hello,   good-by,  and  come back soon.  It
means  friend,   I'm happy,  and  I like you,  too. It's
a word that the friendly =Hawaiians use all the time.
=Hawaii was settled by people from many lands
throughout the world. When these people came to
=Hawaii, they brought their own languages and
customs with them.


of people, of buildings, of waterfalls, even of
waving flags! These fireworks are called  set
pieces. 
Set pieces are made so that each glowing
spark, after it bursts into the sky, floats slowly
down. Then the sparks burn brightly at just the
right spot on a specially treated metal frame.
Each metal frame is in the shape of a picture.
Because the dark frames on the ground cannot
be seen before the sparks explode, the set
pieces have a very special beauty.
Slowly, the bright sparks disappear into the
night. Look! The last red, white, and blue dots
of color. in the flag are still glowing.

Fireworks bring us fun and beauty. But it is
important to remember that they can also be
dangerous. When fireworks get into the wrong
hands, they can cause very bad accidents. Yet,
in the right hands, fireworks can save lives!
Do you know how?
Imagine that a ship is lost on the high seas
or that a car has broken down on a busy road.
What do you think someone could use to call
for help? Bright flares!



The next afternoon they set up the trap
with =Parker's skates for bait, and sat down to
watch television.  This is going to be easy, 
=Parker said.  Why didn't I think of it before? 
By five o'clock, they had been watching =TV
for two hours.  Don't you think we better take
a look outside?  =Doug asked.
What for?  said =Parker.  The bells will
ring.  =On =TV, a bear on skates was speeding
down a hill, and =Parker wanted to see what
would happen when he got to the bottom.
=Doug went outside anyway. In a second, he
came back and said,  Your skates are gone,
=Bloodhound. 
They can't be gone,  said =Parker.  We'd
have heard the bells ring when he picked
them up. 

I never missed a party at =Grandpa
=Theo's. All my aunts, uncles, and cousins
were there. All =Grandpa =Theo's friends
and music pupils came, too.
The table was covered with good food.
People talked and laughed and sang.
Sometimes =Uncle =Dimitri pulled out his
handkerchief. He took =Aunt =Myra's hand,
and =Grandpa =Theo took =Grandma's hand.
Then they did the snake dance. We all
joined hands and lined up behind them.
We wound in and out, dancing the slow
snake dance.


You're not strong enough to open the
hydrant. But what are you doing with
that garbage can top? 
We were trying to make a sprinkler, 
said =Erica. She took the garbage can top
and explained to the police officer how
it would work.
 You're quite an inventor,  said the
police officer, as he put the cap back
on the hydrant.
 We have to keep these caps on,  he
said.  The city loses too much water
when the hydrants are open. If there
were a fire, there might not be enough
pressure to put it out. I wish we could
have sprinklers though. It's a good way
to cool off. Well, stay out of trouble. 
He handed the garbage can top back
to =Erica and went down the street.
The heat wave went on all week. =Erica,
=Susan, and =Jay were miserable, as was
everyone else in the city.



It wasn't very different, but it made
her feel a little more at home.
Whenever =Jennifer and her imaginary 
friend played hopscotch, they said
the numbers out loud as they jumped
=Life was beginning to look a lot better
for =Jennifer.
Then one day, =Jennifer notieed that
a girl in her class was watching her.
Her name was =Mimi. All of the other
girls seemed to like her very much.
 She must think we're crazy,   
=Jennifer whispered to her imaginary friend.
And she quickly stopped counting.
The next day, when =Jennifer was
playing, =Mimi walked over and watched
her very carefully.



=Hm,  said =Sillibill, scratching his
head.  I never thought of that. 
=The little blue man looked carefully
at the boy and then said,  I'd like to
pay you back for your good deed. I can
grant you one wish, but this wish will
come true only if you use your common
sense. Mind you, I can grant you only
ONE. So be careful not to waste it. 
With these words the little blue man
disappeared.



As soon as Mrs =Mallard and the ducklings
were safe on the other side and on their way
down =Mount =Vernon =Street, =Michael rushed
back to his police booth.
He called =Clancy at headquarters and said:
There's a family of ducks walking down the
street!
=Clancy said:  =Family of what? 
Ducks!  yelled =Michael. Send a police car,
quick! 
Meanwhile, Mrs =Mallard had reached the
Corner =Book =Shop and turned into =Charles
Street, with =Jack, =Kack, =Lack, =Mack, =Nack,
=Quack, =Pack, and =Quack all marching in line
behind her.
Everyone stared. An old lady from =Beacon
=Hill said: Isn't it amazing!  And the man who
swept the streets said:  Well, now, ain't that
nice!  And when Mrs =Mallard heard them she
was so proud she tipped her nose in the air
and walked along with an extra swing in her
waddle.



=Jamie lives in a big old house in the country.
There are apple trees and cherry trees, grapes and
wild roses all around the house. The back porch
is starting to fall down, but =Granny always says
the way those roses are climbing, they'll hold it up
another =hundred years. It is a good house to live
in, warm inside and full of happiness.
=King is =Jamie's dog. King is so old now that he
sleeps most of the time in the kitchen, by the
stove where it is warm. All day he sleeps there on
his old red blanket, and sometimes he dreams, and
groans in his sleep.
&&000 MACMILLAN   (1986)   3RD GRADE               MAC9863R.ASC
ON THE TRACK--3-1  by Virginia A. Arnold and Carl B Smith
ORBITS==3-2               same
Source: SUNY Cortland  xerox, scan, edit by DPH February 1, 1993

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Young and old people can dream about
things they would like to do. Sometimes that
dream can come true.
You will read about two people whose
wishes came true as they soared above the
ground. =Sally =Ride became the first woman to
ride in a =United =States space shuttle. =Chuck
=Yeager was the first man to travel faster than
the speed of sound.



In =1964, the new train line was opened
between =Tokyo and =Osaka. The high-speed
electric bullet train could speed its passengers
on the new =Shinkansen line at above =200
kilometers  =125 miles  an hour. It was run by
computers in =Tokyo and =Osaka. Hills could
slow the train. Some tracks were above the
land so that the train would not have to go up
hills or down hills.



As you know, a. telescope helps us to see
the moon and stars. A radio telescope helps
people find out about places in space that we
can't see. There are =billions of stars that
can't be seen with the best telescope, but
their sound can reach the radio telescope. It
can pick up special sound from these stars.
Then it can turn the special sound into a
new sound that we can hear.
The radio telescope tells us many things.
It tells us the temperature of stars. It tells
us how long it might take to travel to
different stars. The radio telescope has
helped us find new stars.



The underground railroad had no train
cars. It had no track. It was a trail that people
walked from the =South to the =North. In time
they'd come to =Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was
in the =North. It was a place where slaves
could be free. Harriet =Tubman was the
fearless woman who could take the slaves
to the =North.
The slaves did not travel when the sun
was out. In the day, they'd hide and sleep on
the ground. Their food was the small animals
that =Harriet =Tubman might find for them in
the woods.
Sometimes there were stops on the
underground railroad. The stops were at the
homes of friends of =Harriet =Tubman. These
friends wanted to help everybody to be free.
At the stops, the tired slaves could eat and
rest. =Nat's family was going to stay at the
home of =John =Tucker the next day. His home
was one of the stops on the trail of the
underground railroad.



A telescope is an instrument that you can
use to see the stars more clearly and to learn
about the night sky. The very first telescope
was put together in the early =1600's. Soon
after, a man called =Galileo =Galilei made his
own telescope and began to use it to look at
the moon and the stars. Can you imagine the
feelings he had when he looked at the night
sky through his telescope for the first time?
With his telescope, =Galileo began to learn
what the moon is like. He found out that the
=Milky =Way is made up of many, many stars.
One kind of telescope we use today is like
=Galileo's telescope. A huge telescope of this
kind is at the =Yerkes =Observatory in
=Wisconsin.



Day after day, they looked across the
water, but no boat came for them. How
much they wanted to go away from the
island and its king!
Then one day as =Icarus looked over the
water, he saw a bird. It soared into the sky.
 That bird is fearless,  =Icarus said.  It
can fly away. I wish we had wings to fly
away, too. 
After a while, =Daedalus said,  We can
have wings! Now hear me, my son. Pick up
all the feathers you can find, as fast as you
can. We'll find a way to make wings and fly
off this island. 

=Keith and his mother and father had
driven for five days on their trip from =Ohio.
They were tired and anxious for a few days
rest when they stopped at an old hotel. What
they didn't know was that the room they were
about to occupy, room =215, was already
occupied. =Ralph, the mouse, and his family,
had settled in room =215 many years ago, and
they were very happy there.
After =Keith got used to the idea of a
talking mouse, =Keith and =Ralph became good
friends. They had many good times together.
When =Ralph takes =Keith's toy motorcycle for a
ride, he has a very exciting time.



Can you imagine riding a race on a horse
all day? At one time in our country, young
riders did this. They were racing to help
deliver the mail.
In =1860, you could not go from =New =York
to =California by train. The train went from
=New =York to =Missouri. Then you had to go by
stagecoach to =California. The mail went this
way, too.



August is a special time in =Akron, =Ohio. It
is the time when many children come to race
in the =All-American =Soap =Box =Derby.
Children of the =United =States and the
world come to =Akron for this contest. To come
to =Akron, the children have to win a soap box
derby where they live. They are proud of their
racers. They want the judges to see their work.
This is an important race for each of them.
The judges look at each racer before the
race. It must have been made at home. A
mother or father may have helped work on it.
The judges measure each racer to see how big
it is. The weight of the car and the weight of
the driver can't be under or over a special
weight. One race is open to children =9 to =12,
and one race is open to children =11 to =15.



 The calls weren't important, =Mother.
She wanted to know how to spell some
words in =English. 
 And you don't want to help her. Is that
true, =Millie? 
 Well, a spelling bee is a contest,  said
=Millie.  If I help her, she may do better than
I will! 
Mrs =Snow said,  I am unhappy to know
that you feel like this. A friend is more
important than a contest. 
 She has asked me how to spell too
many words,  said =Millie.
 It's good that she asked you,  said her
mother.  You will learn how to spell the
words better, too, if you help her. 
 For a time, no one spoke. Then =Millie
said,  =You are right, =Mother. =Luz is my
friend. She is more important than the
contest. I don't want to hurt her feelings.
=Grandpa can help both of us after school.
=Luz and I will work together. 
 You are a good friend, =Millie,  said Mrs
=Snow with a big smile.



 Do you exercise to take care of your
body and legs every day?' asked Dr =Winter.
 Yes, I do,  said =Larry.  But what has that
to do with my mouth? 
 Both are important for your health. If you
eat the right food and use your toothbrush
every day, you will not get a cavity.'
Dr =Winter found the cavity in =Larry's
tooth.  I will take care of this for you right
now. Then your tooth will not ache when you
chew your food. 
At last the dentist said,  Now your tooth is
like new. Now go to that race! Remember to
brush every day. 
 I will remember to brush, =Larry said.
Come on, said Mrs =Moss. I will drive
you to school. 
On they went, but soon there was a noise.
 A car can't have a cavity,  said =Larry's
mother.  But this car does have an ache. It
drove well before, but now it's stuck.
 If I run, I can get to school in time for
the race. Can I go alone?' said =Larry.



Then he and =Dudley began to walk.
 I know of a special tree on a farm in
the country,  said =Dudley.  We will walk to it. 
=Burton and =Dudley walked on.
 The birds are singing loudly. They
make me so happy,  said =Dudley.
=Burton and =Dudley walked on, and then
=Burton said,  I am very tired. Please may we
stop for a time? 
 Yes,  said =Dudley.  You don't always get
so much fresh air and exercise. You are not
ready for so much fresh air. 
=Burton began to relax.
 The clouds look pretty up there,  said
=Burton.  I have not seen the sky look so
pretty. 
&&000 MACMILLAN  3RD GRADE  (1987)                 MAC9873R.ASC
CONNECTIONS 
Friends Aloft (3-1) and Adventuring (3-2)
'authors' = Virginia Arnold and Carl B. Smith
Substituted for the stolen 3 rd grade Readers for the 1990
   Macmilan series from SUNY Cortland
source: SUNY Cortland xeroxed, scanned, edited DPH 12-15-92

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The bear, feeling very
wise, picked up the boot
and carried it along.
The animals continued their stroll through
the woods until they came upon a rusty kettle.
 What could this be?  they wondered,
sniffing the strange thing.
 We know,  cried the birds, who did not
want to seem less wise than a bear.  It's some
kind of nest,  they said.
 Look here!  said one bird, pecking at the
rim of the kettle.  This is where the bird goes
And down here,  chirped another bird
from deep inside,  is the hole where the eggs
are safe.


It was hard to watch her kite and the hat
as well, but =Sumi knew she must help Mr
=Mayor. Now the hat was at the water's edge
and =Sumi had to save it. She took one last
look at her beautiful butterfly. Then, holding
tight to its string, she ran as fast as she could.

She threw herself on the hat with a great
thud and felt it flatten below her. She had
saved the hat, but she had squashed it flat.
Worse still, she had given her kite such a
jerk, it turned upside down and came
tumbling from the sky. Her beautiful butterfly
soared to earth and fell in a heap on the sand.

=Ohhhh.  =A sad =CIy went through the
crowd, for now everyone saw what had
happened.


He packed a bag of wool he sheared from the
sheep in =April.

He packed a shawl his wife wove on a loom
from yarn spun at the spinning wheel from sheep
sheared in =April.

He packed five pairs of mittens his daughter
knit from yarn spun at the spinning wheel from
sheep sheared in =April.

He packed candles the family made.

He packed linen made from the flax they grew.

He packed shingles he split himself.

He packed birch brooms his son carved with
a borrowed kitchen knife.



The mine owners thought and thought, and
finally they came up with a solution.  We will
move your homes!  they said.  We will move the
whole town! 
It sounded like a wonderful idea. But how on
earth would they do it?
The mine owners and the people sat down
together to think and talk.
 We have horses and tractors,  said one man.
 Maybe we could pull the buildings. 
But we can't pull big buildings along the
ground,  said the mayor.  They will break into
pieces. We need wheels or something. 
Wheels are a problem,  said the mine
owners.  Most of our wheels are just not large or
strong enough to move a building. 
Well,  said someone else,  we certainly have
lots of trees. We could cut them down, then make
them smooth, and roll our houses on them. 
 That's it!  everyone cried.
So the mine owners and the people began to
get ready for moving day. They separated all the
buildings from their basements. Then they dug
new basements for all those buildings. They
chopped down trees. Then they cut away the
branches. They made the logs smooth.



Commander =Toad and =Lieutenant =Lily sail
down in a little sky skimmer. They will make sure
that nothing nasty or mean waits for the crew on
this brand-new world.

Commander =Toad leaps out of the skimmer
and laughs as he lands.  A fine, quiet planet for a
picnic. Come join me, =Lieutenant =Lily. 

=Lily smiles. Then she sneezes.  
 =Ah-chippichoo. There is something on this calm world I am
allergic to,  she says and sneezes once again. She
wipes her nose with a regulation starfleet  
nosekerchief and prepares to leap from the skimmer.
But before she can move, something begins to
grow under =Commander =Toad's feet.

First it is a bump. Then it is a lump. Then it
is a bubble that looks like a giant grape.  Wait a
bit,  warns =Commander =Toad.  Things grow too
quickly on this quiet world. 



=Henry hopped to the basket floor. He
looked for something to push or pull that
meant =Dow1l. Nothing. Standing on his hind
legs, he looked over the edge of the basket.
He couldn't see his people anymore. And the
balloon was sailing toward the mountains.

=Henry glared up into the bright cave of
the balloon.  Come on down now!  he
yowled. Then he saw a cord leading down
from the balloon. He could reach it from the
edge of the basket. When he clawed the cord,
he saw a little hole of sky open in the balloon
cloth. As air spilled out, the balloon began
to sink.


Do you ever go outside at night to see
the sky? How many stars can you see? Try to
count them. Do you think you can count them
all?

The best way to see the stars is to ride in
a rocket ship. You could go sailing up into
the black and silent night. Higher and higher
you would go. Soon you could look down on
the earth below. You would be in space!
You may really do
this one day. Many
people have already
gone into space on
rocket ships. The rocket
ships carried the people
high into space. The
earth looked like a giant
ball to them. It just
seemed to sit in space
without moving.


=Louie and his friends liked their flying trip
on Imagination I. Some people just don't like
adventures. =Hamet likes traveling, but her
brother, =William, doesn't. When =Harriet makes
a spaceship, will she be able to talk =William
into coming with her into space? What strange
adventures do you think they may have?

=Harriet and =William were twins. Harriet
liked going places. William liked working in
his garden.

The day =Harriet finished building her
spaceship, she said,  =Let's go on a trip. 

 No, thank you,  said =William.

 Why not?  asked =Harriet.

 Because I could not sleep in a spaceship.
I can only sleep in my own bed. 

 You can't take your bed with you. It's
a very small ship,  said =Harriet.  But you
can take your pillow. Now will you come? 

=Mandy put on clean jeans, her favorite
sweater, and her floppy hat.

=Mandy's grandmother came in a furry coat and
a funny hat with flowers. She had an interesting
box in her arms.

 And who is this little fellow?  she said
to =Mandy.

 Why, that's our =Mandy,  said =Mandy's
mother quickly.

 Oh, dear,  said =Mandy's grandmother,
embarrassed. She was fumbling with her packages
and trying to smile at =Mandy.

 I can hardly wait to see =Mandy in this, 
=Mandy's grandmother said.

Maybe it's cowboy clothes, =Mandy thought,
tearing the ribbons off.

The dress was yellow. So was the hat. The
purse had a little lace hanky inside.  Thank you, 
said =Mandy softly but politely. She tried to smile
but it came out crooked.



=Sam and =Jacob helped each other learn
new things because they were good friends.
Sometimes, though, you can help yourself by
being your own best friend. Olympic ice
skater =Tiffany =Chin gets help from her
family and coach. But when she skates she
knows she has to count on herself. Read to
see why =Tiffany thinks that  If you believe
you can do something, you usually can. 

=Tiffany =Chin's love of skating began with a
pair of ice skates that cost one dollar. =Tiffany
=Chin's mother saw them at a neighborhood sale.
She thought =Tiffany might like them. So she
brought them home.

=Tiffany was eight years old then. She did like
the skates. But when she tried to skate in them,
she got a surprise. She fell down! She and her
mother looked hard at the skates. They were
toy skates.

That did not stop =Tiffany though. She had
decided she liked skating. Her parents soon bought
her some real skates.


=Donkey: There must be someone at home. You
hide behind this clump of bushes, while I go
and look through the window.
=Storyteller: The donkey went alone to the house
and peeked through the window. There he
saw a band of robbers eating dinner. On the
table was lots of gold, and on shelves behind
the robbers were stored all kinds of food.
=Donkey: This is the place for us. Now all we have
to do is scare the robbers away.
=Storyteller: The donkey went back to the other
animals behind the bushes, and together they
made a plan. First the donkey went over to
the window. Then the dog got on the
donkey's back, the cat got on the dog's back,
and the rooster flew up on top of the cat's
back. Then they all began to sing. Suddenly all
four animals fell through the window. The
robbers were so scared by all that noise that
they ran out of the house into the woods.
=Donkey: We did it! We scared them away!
=Dog: Look at all this good food. Come on, I'm
ready to eat.


Behind the wagon walked =Anna,
their old mare. She was not tied to the
wagon but followed faithfully. She
carried two sacks of cornmeal on her back.
It was hot in the noonday sun. The
children were cranky and bored. The
wagon cover shaded them, but little air
came in through the openings at front
and back.
=John and =Billy started in on each
other. =Trudy, the oldest, who was trying
to read, asked them to be good. Their
quarrel was stopped by =Father's voice.
 Quick, everybody, look out! There's
a herd of mustangs. 
The children rushed to the back of
the wagon. In the distance they could
see the wild horses. The horses galloped
swiftly and, in minutes, were out of
sight.
 Look at =Anna,  =John said.
The old mare stood still. She had
turned her head toward the mustangs.
Her usually floppy ears were lifted high.
The wagon had moved some distance
before =Anna trotted after it.
It was hotter than ever inside.


=Sarah lay on a quilt under a tree. The
darkness was all around her, but through the
branches she could see one bright star. It was
comfortable to look at.
The spring night was cold, and =Sarah drew
her warm cloak close. That was comfortable, too.
She thought of how her mother had put it around
her the day she and her father started out on this
long, hard journey.
 Keep up your courage,  her mother had
said, fastening the cloak under =Sarah's chin.
 Keep up your courage, =Sarah =Noble! 
=And, indeed, =Sarah needed to keep up her
courage, for she and her father had been traveling
all the way into the wilderness of =Connecticut.


=Maxie lived in three small rooms on the
top floor of an old brownstone house on
=Orange =Street. She had lived there for many
years, and every day was the same for =Maxie.
Every morning, seven days a week, every
morning at exactly seven o'clock, =Maxie raised
the shades on her three front windows. Every
morning at exactly =7'10, =Maxie's large, orange
cat jumped up onto the middle windowsill and
sprawled there in the morning sun.
At =7'20, if you were watching =Maxie's
back window, you could see her raise the
shade to the very top. Then she uncovered a
bird cage. On the perch inside the cage was a
yellow canary. He was waiting for his water
dish to be filled. It always was, if you were
still watching, at =7'22.

Then the king called for the crow. That
big bird came flapping up. He said,  =King
=Lion, it was the rabbit's fault! I saw her
running for her life in the daytime. Wasn't
that reason enough to spread an alarm? 
The king nodded his head and said to the
council:  =So, it was the rabbit who startled the
crow, who alarmed the monkey, who killed the
owlet, and now =Mother =Owl won't wake the
sun so that the day can come. 
Then =King =Lion called the rabbit.  Rabbit, 
cried the king,  why did you break a law of
nature and go running, running, running, in
the daytime? 

=Sam looked at =Bangs for a
minute. Then she said,  =Pardon
me while I go to the moon. 
=Bangs stood up. He stretched
his front legs. Then he stretched
his back legs. Slowly he stalked
away from =Sam toward =Blue =Rock.
Sam was so busy thinking that she was
unaware of thick muddy clouds that blocked
out the sun. Nor did she hear the rumble of
thunder. She was almost knocked off the
doorstep by a sudden gust of wind.
Sam leaped into the house and slammed
the door. She went to the window to look at
=Blue =Rock, but she could see nothing through
the grey ribbed curtain of rain. She wondered
where =Thomas was. She wondered where
=Bangs was. Sam stood there looking at
nothing, trying to swallow the lump that rose
in her throat.
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THE PLACE CALLED MORNING (3-1) & CITIES ALL ABOUT (3-2)
Level F and G  by Marianne Carus
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One night about nine o'clock I was walking home with
some friends from a party. The air was quiet. Our eyes fixed
upon the full moon. We each spoke about it. One friend said
that he thought the moon was a window of heaven. Another
believed it to be the sun itself, who at night peeped through
a hole to see what was happening in the world during its
absence .   As for me, friends ,  =1 said,   I think the moon is a
world like ours to which our earth is likewise a moon. The
response to my statement was loud laughter. Still I  
continued to think about my idea all the way home.
When I entered my room, I noticed a book open on the
table. That was strange, because I had not put it there. I
glanced at the page. My eyes fell upon a passage in which a
philosopher told of two tall old men who appeared before
him one night. They had entered through the closed door of
his room. He asked them many questions. Finally they said
they were people of the moon. Then they disappeared.
Imagine my surprise to see the book on the table, opened
to that passage ! Perhaps it was a sign that I should visit the
moon. This I made up my mind to do.
So I shut myself up in a house in the country and made
plans. I thought of many ways to get to the moon. I decided
on the best way and got ready for my journey.
I hung a great many bottles filled with dew around my
body. I thought that since the heat of the sun draws up the
morning dew, it would also attract the bottles of dew. As
they rose in the air, I would rise with them.
This plan worked so well that soon I was high above the
clouds. Here the sun's attraction was even stronger. 



The cat heard these words and looked up at his master.
 Do not worry,  he said.  You will not have to eat me. Only
give me a bag and get me a pair of boots, and I will show you
how we can live very well. 
The young man did not see how the cat could help him to
live, but he knew the cat was clever. Besides, what else could
the young man do?
So he got the cat a bag and a pair of boots. Puss put on the
boots and tied the bag around his neck. Then he set off for a
place where there were some rabbits.
He filled the bag with grain and left the mouth of the bag
open. Then he lay down and pretended to go to sleep. Soon a
young rabbit smelled the grain and saw the open bag. He
crawled into the bag to eat the grain. Quickly the cat drew the
strings of the bag closed and caught the rabbit.
Puss now went to the palace and asked to speak to the
king. The guards took him to the king. He made a low bow
and said,  =Sire, this is a rabbit which my master asked me to
give to you. 
And who is your master?  said the king.
 He is the =Marquis of =Carabas,  said the cat, bowing low.
 Tell your master that I gladly accept his gift,  said the
king with a smile.  Here are some coins for your master to
show him that I like his gift. And before you go, get
something for yourself in my kitchen. 
=Puss returned home and gave the coins to his master and
said,  =Now you need not go to bed hungry or sleep on the
ground. And I have something else for you too. 
What can that be?  said the young man, amazed.



iron rod. After the ore melted, =Marie added other chemicals
that helped her find the new element.
For months =Marie and her husband worked. They got
more ore. They borrowed some money and got more  
equipment. After four years of hard work in the leaky shed, =Pierre
became sick. He had to give up for a while. =Marie worked on
alone.
In =1902, she succeeded. In the bottom of a test tube were a
few tiny grains containing an element no one had ever seen
before.  =Marie named the element radium.
It was an amazing element. It was five =million times more
radioactive than uranium. The rays could pass through wood
and even steel. Only a thick screen of lead could block them.
They could act on a person's body.  =Marie's fingers had
been badly burned by them.  =Pierre had purposely exposed
himself to the rays, to see what would happen.
When doctors heard of these new rays, they wondered
whether the rays could destroy diseased cells in the human
body. They tried and found that the rays could. And after the
diseased cells were destroyed, healthy cells often grew in their
place. Because the rays worked this way, they could be used
to treat some kinds of cancer.
At once, radium was wanted all around the world. Only the
=Curies knew how to get it out of the ore. The secret belonged
to them. They could sell the secret in countries everywhere.
They could become rich.
A letter came from =American. People wanted to produce
radium there. =Pierre asked =Marie what she wanted to do. 



The kingdom of ancient =Egypt lay in northeast =Africa and
=Asia =Minor. Its capital city, =Alexandria, was a great center of
learning. =Egypt was called the gift =øS the =Nile because each
summer that great river flooded its banks and left black soil
on the land. The =Egyptian farmers planted their crops in this
rich soil. Beyond the =Nile =River valley stretched the desert.
Now the queen of ancient =Egypt two =thousand years ago
was =Cleopatra. =Cleopatra was the last of the =Ptolemies, a
family that had ruled =Egypt for =300 years. She was  
intelligent, ambitious, and crafty. She was also so beautiful
that she became a legend in her own time.
=Cleopatra was just eighteen when she became queen. It was
a time when =Egypt feared the growing power of =Rome. In her
public life, =Cleopatra wanted to keep power for herself and to
keep =Egypt strong and free. In her private life, she wanted
luxury and love. She tried to make these two parts of her life
work together. And, for a while at least, she succeeded. Two
great =Roman conquerors, =Julius =Caesar and =Mark =Antony,
made alliances with her and helped to further her plans.
=Julius =Caesar had conquered much of =Europe and then had
chased his enemy into =Egypt. When he came to the city of
=Alexandria he met =Cleopatra and at once fell in love with her.
He took her side in a civil war she was fighting and helped her
gain more power in =Egypt. They were united, and =Cleopatra
went back to =Rome with =Caesar. When =Caesar died two
years later, she returned to =Egypt with their son, =Caesarion.


One day an old king returned from a journey and asked his
three daughters if they were glad to see him.
 Your return is like the return of the sun,  said the eldest.
 To see you again is like light to my eyes,  said the second.
 To have you back is as good as salt,  said the youngest.
 WHAT!  said the king to his youngest daughter.  That
doesn't sound as though you love me very much. 
 I love you as meat loves salt,  said the little girl.
This made the king angry, and he scolded her. She was  
impudent, he said. But she would not change her words.
WORDS TO WATCH

value     banish    guest
journey   tended    sipped
forgiven  shepherd  knelt
impudent  page saltcellar


 =Australia lives on the sheep's back.  =Australia ships its
wool to many different countries, for it is the largest producer
of wool in the world.
The first sheep and cows and rabbits in =Australia were
brought in from other countries, but =Australia also has its
own animals. Some of them are the strangest and funniest
animals in the world.
Many animals in =Australia carry their babies in their
pouches. Kangaroos are the most famous of these animals.
Kangaroos hop around on two hind legs and use their very
strong tail for balance. They also have two little skinny front
legs that are so weak that they cannot walk well on them.
A mother kangaroo with a baby in her pouch can easily jump
=twenty-five feet when she is hurrying or afraid.
Another strange animal in =Australia is the koala bear. A
koala bear looks like a teddy bear. Koala mothers also carry
their babies around in their pouches. After several months, a
baby koala is brave enough to come out of its pouch, and
then it rides on its mother's back for several more months.
The word koala means  no drink,  and it is true that koala
bears never drink water. All they need is the juice from tree
leaves.
The funniest-looking animal in =Australia also has the  
funniest name. It is called a duckbill platypus. The platypus  
can



parents who came here from another country? Long ago the only
people who lived in =American were =Indians. But after
=Columbus discovered =American, people began to come here
from all over the world. Not many years ago, =American was
called  the melting pot.  It seemed that people from
everywhere had been thrown into a big pot to be melted down
into something new called =Americans. Newcomers who had
names that were hard for their neighbors to spell changed
them to be more  =American.  Sometimes =American officials
like the ones at =EllisIsland just gave them new names. But
=American never really was a melting pot. The people who
came here became =Americans, but they did not forget that
they had come from =Poland or =Italy or =Greece or =China or
=Africa. They kept alive the memory of their old countries.
They taught the old stories and dances and songs, and even
the languages, to their children and grandchildren. They  
discovered that their differences helped them to understand
themselves and each other.
The very first people to come to =American were the Indians.
These native =Americans arrived =thousands of years ago from
=Asia. Much later, =Europeans began to come. Some of these,
like the =English, went to every part of =American. Others at
first stayed in smaller areas to be with people of their own
kind. Spanish-speaking people settled in =Florida and the
=Southwest and =California.  =French from =Canada settled in
=Louisiana. Germans settled in =Pennsylvania and the
=Midwest. =Chinese and =Japanese went to the =West =Coast.
Africans, who were brought here very early, first lived mainly
in the =South. =Italians, =Irish, =Russians, and others from



=Greeks told about their gods. Everywhere in =India beautiful
temples have been built to honor these gods.
Animals are sacred to the =Hindus, especially cows. In
many places, cows are allowed to go where they please. So if
you go to =India, you might bump into some of them.
Another important religion that started in India is
=Buddhism. Today, =millions of people in =Asia are called
=Buddhists because they follow the teachings of =Buddha.
=Buddha was born about =2'500 years ago in India. He had a
happy childhood because he lived in a palace and was not
allowed to see all the sad and poor people who lived around
him. After he married at nineteen, he met more and more
people outside the palace, and he saw that many of them were
very unhappy.
=Buddha decided that he would no longer live in his palace.
He left his home and wandered about northern =India. One
day he felt that he had found the answer to the problems of
life.
For the rest of his life, =Buddha went among his people
teaching and caring for them. His followers later spread his
teachings to =China, =Japan, and most of =Southeast =Asia.
=Buddhism is still one of the most important religions in the
world.
Some people say that the most beautiful building in all the
world is in =India. It is called the =Taj =Mahal and was built to
the memory of an Indian emperor's most beautiful and loving
wife. The emperor and his wife loved each other very dearly.
Wherever the emperor traveled, even on the battlefield, he
had his queen by his side. To please her, he ruled his people




Once upon a time, many, many years ago, there lived in
=Italy a gentle, peaceful king called =Numitor. His younger
brother, =Amulius, wanted the kingdom for himself. Since
=Amulius was wicked and cruel, he gathered enough evil men
to attack his brother. He drove him from his kingdom, killed
the king's son, and imprisoned his daughter, the lovely
=Princess =Rhea =Silvia. =Amulius made himself king, and the
good, gentle =Numitor had to live outside the city on his farm,
tending his cows and sheep like a poor man.
The people hated =Amulius, but they did not dare fight
against him. Several years had passed when news spread that
=Rhea =Silvia had escaped from prison and given birth to twin
baby boys. =Amulius was very angry and had his men search
everywhere for the princess and her babies.
One day =Amulius's men carried a large basket before their
king. In it were two small baby boys, wrapped in the royal
cloak of the princess. The men had also seen =Princess =Rhea
=Silvia, but just as they had wanted to seize her, she jumped
into the river =Tiber and was drowned. =Amulius was beside
himself with rage.

WORDS TO WATCH

=Numitor  =PrincessRhea =Silvia    =Faustulus
=Amulius  =TiberRiver    revenge
den  seize     shaggy
trot cloak     shepherd


Many educated people and the growing numbers of factory
workers in the cities were also unhappy being ruled by the
czars. They also revolted unsuccessfully a number of times.
Finally, in =1917, during the =First =World =War, the czar and his
government were done away with.
People had many different ideas about what kind of
government =Russia should have. Eventually a man named
=Lenin seized control of the government. He and his followers
were =Communists. A long civil war and many years of
hardship and suffering resulted.
Under communism, the people of the =Soviet =Union do not
have many of the freedoms that we have in the =United =States.
Everything is owned and controlled by the government. But
the =Communists have tried hard to make =Russia into a
modern, industrial country. Today, =Russia is a world power.
In =1957, the =Russians startled the world by putting the first
man-made satellite into orbit around the earth. The satellite
was called =Sputnik =1. Other satellites followed, some with
animals in them. Four years later, =Yuri =Gagarin became the
first human space traveler. He made one orbit of the earth.
Since then, the =Soviet =Union has had many successes in
space, although the =United =States was able to put the first
men on the moon. In =1975, an =American =Apollo spacecraft
and a =Soviet =Soyuz spacecraft linked up with each other
while in orbit. This was the first international adventure in
space.
In =Moscow, the =Communist rulers work in the =Kremlin,
which is a huge castle with walls around it. Wide streets go
out from the =Kremlin like the spokes of a wheel. On these


=Four =hundred years ago, when =Elizabeth I was =Queen of
=England, a young, handsome man named =Walter =Raleigh
once saw her crossing a street. It had rained hard, and the
streets were muddy. He took off his rich velvet cape and
threw it down in front of the queen so that she could step on it
as on a carpet. The queen was so pleased that she made
=Walter =Raleigh a knight. From then on, he was called =Sir
=Walter =Raleigh, and he became one of the queen's special
friends.
Sir =Walter =Raleigh was very much interested in the new
land of =American. He sent some =Englishmen to the =American
coast to found a colony, which he named =Virginia. They
brought back potatoes and tobacco to =England, and =Sir
=Walter =Raleigh learned how to smoke as the Indians did.
The =English people did not know about tobacco, and they
did not know how to smoke. One day while =Raleigh was
smoking his pipe, a servant saw the smoke coming out of his
master's mouth and thought he was on fire. He ran for a
bucket of water and dumped it on his master's head. Of
course, neither the Indians nor the =English understood the
harm tobacco could do.
Another famous knight who lived when =Elizabeth I was
queen was =Sir =Francis =Drake. He was a born sailor and
became captain of a ship when he was twenty-two years old.
He was the first =Englishman to sail all the way around the
world. He captured many =Spanish treasure ships and sailed
back to =England with shiploads of =Spanish gold and jewels.
Sir =Francis =Drake fought bravely in the famous sea battle
against the huge =Spanish fleet called  =The =Armada.  The
=Spanish thought that they could not be beaten because the
&&000 SCRIBNER (MACMILLAN)  (1987) 3RD GRADE   SCR9873R.ASC
EACH NEW DAY & TURN A CORNER by Jack Cassidy et al
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the little finger. Then she counted from six to
ten on her right hand, starting with the little
finger. For eleven to twenty, she did the same
thing all over again.
Some of =Fatu s people count from eleven
to twenty on their toes. Her people, the
=Mende, have a special word for twenty. It is =nu
=gboyongo. It means a whole person. All ten
fingers and all ten toes have been counted.
=Fatu's mother does not need to count on
her fingers. She can do even the biggest sums
in her head. =Fatu will be able to do that, too,
when she is older.
Do you know that some of our =English
number words are named for finger counting?
Eleven means one left. Count out all tell
fingers. Then you will need one more to reach
eleven. Twelve means two left over, after
counting all ten fingers.


 What are they laughing at?  asked
=Daniel, but =Jeff didn't answer.
Someone said,  Look at the duck! 
More people came to look, and they
were laughing, too. Someone else said,  =That
duck is so funny! 
Now =Daniel knew they were laughing at
his duck. At first he wanted to hide, but then
he was angry. He went to the table, picked up
his duck, and ran out of the hall with it.
Someone was running after him, but
=Daniel ran faster, until he came to the river.
He wanted to throw the duck as far as he
could.
But before he could, a man grabbed his
arm and asked.  What are you doing with
that duck?  


What do you recommend?  asked the
people from the town.
 After the =Chaudierede =Clam, the
gingerbread is best. 
Thank you,  said the people from the
town.
 It is my pleasure to serve you,  said the
moose. The moose brought bowls of chowder
balanced on his antlers.
At the end of the meal, the moose
clumped to the table.  Has everything been to
your satisfaction?  he asked.
Yes,  said the people from the town,
their mouths full of gingerbread.
 I beg your pardon?  said the moose.
 What did you say? 
 It was very good,  said the people from
the town.  It was the best we've ever eaten. 
 I will tell the chef,  said the moose.
The moose clumped into the kitchen. He
told Mr =Breton that the people from the town
had said that the food was the best they had
ever eaten. Mr =Breton rushed out of the
kitchen and out of the house. The people
from the town were sitting on the porch,
putting on their snowshoes.


Then, suddenly, =Chin =Chiang stumbled,
but instead of falling he did a quick step and
kept his balance. Excitedly, he leaped into the
air, and again, and higher again. And as the
dance went on, =Chin =Chiang's feet moved
more surely, his steps grew firmer and his
leaps more daring. Mrs =Lau and Mr =Koo
cheered from their market shops while people
poured out of their houses onto the balconies
and sidewalks, filling the streets. High in the
sky, flags of fire and falling moons burst into
light. They sizzled and sparkled, rocketed
straight up and whistled to the ground.
Just then =Chin =Chiang caught sight of a
familiar face in the crowd. It was =Pu =Yee.
=Chin =Chiang leaped to the sidewalk and
pulled her into the street.


Perhaps the biggest pet problem is
something pet owners don't like to think
about, the death of a pet. Most pets have
shorter lives than people.
How does =Emily know that something is
wrong with =Petey? Why is =Emily not sure that
she wants a new pet?
In the afternoon, like always, when I get
home from school, I say hello to =Mom. I
check out what =Benjy, my little brother, is up
to and grab an apple. Then I run upstairs and
drop my schoolbag on my bed and see what
silly old gerbil, =Petey, is doing. Usually
he's banging this juice can he's so crazy about
against the glass sides of his cage. He makes
whole song of happy clinks and clunks. He
does it at night, too. Daddy always says,
when he comes in to kiss me,  How can you
go to sleep with that racket?  But the real
truth is I can hardly go to sleep without it.
It's a friendly noise.


We all live in the same
world, but each of us sees it a
little differently. For example,
the way you see the world is
different from the way a king
might. And the world you
know is much different from
the world of a blind person.
Sometimes you may try to see
the world the way another
person does. Seeing the world
through someone else's eyes
may help you solve a difficult
problem.
As you read this unit, think
about why it is important to
be able to see the world the
way another person does. Ask
yourself what the characters
learn about their own way
of seeing by understanding
the other person's viewpoint.


As you can see, comparison and contrast help give a
clear picture of people by telling how they are like or
different from someone or something else. In the next
examples, look for different types of comparison and
contrast.

Both of my cats have orange spots.
Each cat has a toy mouse to play with.
=Muffy and =Fluffy are as quiet as whispers
when they take a nap.

The sandy beach is hot, but the bay water is cold.
Playing ball is not permitted in this park,
although roller skating is allowed.

Did you find the comparisons in the first three  
sentences? Sentences one and two tell you how the two
cats are alike, using the clue words both and each.
Sentence three tells how the cats are like something
else, using the clue word as. In the fourth sentence, two
things, the sandy beach and the bay water, are  
contrasted. The clue word but helps show how these things
are different from each other. The last sentence  
contrasts two activities, playing ball and roller skating,
using the clue word although.
Look for comparison and contrast when you read. You
will discover how much clearer and more interesting a
story is when an author tells how people, things, or
ideas are like, or different from, each other.



 Would I do that?  said =McGoogan.  Those are
sea gulls flying there,  he said, pointing to the birds.
 And sea gulls live by the edge of the sea! 
Glory be, at last!  cried the rock.
Without wasting any time, =McGoogan picked
up the rock and tucked it under his arm.
 Let's go,  he said.  The sea cannot be far away. 
Hurry,  the rock cheered him on.
=McGoogan walked briskly, saying nothing
except to answer his friend's endless question.
 Soon?  the rock asked time and time again.
 Soon!  =McGoogan answered, patting the rock
each time.
Suddenly, =McGoogan stopped and sniffed the
air.  That's salt in the wind,  he said,  or I'm no son
of =Erin. 



The parrot ruffled his feathers angrily and
didn't speak. =Grandma put him in a small cage
when she took him places, and he didn't like it.
He preferred the big cage he lived in at home.
 He's feeling grouchy,  =Grandma said. She
put the cage on the dining-room table.
=Mom came downstairs in her new dress and
with her hair in curls. Michael thought she
looked pretty and strange at the same time, as
though she were somebody else and not his
everyday =Mom.
 Here's the phone number where we'll be. 
She handed =Grandma =Cameron a slip of paper.
 Be sure to call if you have a problem. 
We won't have any problems,  =Grandma
said.  Everything will be just fine.  She yawned
widely.  Excuse me. I was up late last night. 
Reading murder mysteries, I'll bet,  said
=Mom.
 You know I just love the horrible things, 
said =Grandma.  I didn't intend to read the
whole book, but once I got started it was so
exciting that I couldn't stop. I stayed up until I
finished it. You might like it, =Carol. It's called
=The =Empty =Grave. 
 =Sounds scary,  said =Mom.

It was snowing
Last night,
And today
I can see who came
This way.

A dog ran lightly here,
And a cat.
A rabbit hopped by and, 
What was THAT?

A twelve-toed foot
Two yards wide?
Another step here
In just one stride?

It was snowing
Last night.
Who came past?
I'll never be knowing
For I am going
The OTHER way,
Fast.

The wheels of the power-mower

Never once slowed;
And, suddenly scared, 
I shouted,  =Toad,
Hurry up.
Hop !
Or you'll get mowed! 
A mower,  I told him,
Trying hard to talk,
Can grind up a toad
Like a dandelion stalk. 
The toad peered over
A bud of white clover
And slowly
Hopped on the flagstone walk.
That was the second thing
But still not the last.
After a minute
A puppy lolloped past.
I drove off the puppy,
And I scatted a cat,
And I took the toad
To the woods
After that.

I like being helpful,
And I'm no quitter,
But that toad needed
A baby sitter.


There are two ways a blind person can travel
without help from sighted people. The first is by
using a cane.
A cane is used by moving it from side to side
in front of you as you are walking. You tap the
cane lightly on the ground in front of the foot
that is about to take a step. In this way, you can
check the area in front of you before each step.
Besides telling you about things in your path, the
cane can also tell you if there is a step or curb
ahead.
The second way for a blind person to travel
without help is by using a guide dog. A lot of
patience and work is needed to train a guide
dog. First, the dogs are given to families as
puppies. They spend the first part of their lives
in a warm and loving home. They are taught
some basic commands and manners. Later, the
dogs are sent to a special training center. Here
the dogs are taught to follow commands quickly
and not make mistakes. They are also taught to
ignore such things as noises and other dogs. If a
dog turns out to be too excitable or unable to
learn everything it needs to know, the dog will
not become a guide dog.

 What pure good luck,  =Shirley said.  Looks
like when that branch broke, it opened a honey
cache, =Claude. You'll have something good on
your biscuit's tonight. 
She took his arm and pointed him toward the
sloping hillside.  Take notice that my vegetable
garden's already plowed. And there's two  
goodsized trout down by the stream that are going to
be pan-fried for supper. 
=Claude thought on this a moment. Then he
said,  =Shirley, get back in the wagon and start
pulling out the stuff we'll need. If you can just
learn to do your chores without making so much
noise, then I think we've found us our place of
peace and quiet. 
=Shirley leaned against the wagon and gave a
happy sigh of relief. She looked down at the
stream that was sparkling with pieces of
afternoon sunlight. She gazed over the hills and
the meadows that were soft and pleasing to the
eyes.
She gave =Claude the biggest smile he'd ever
seen anyone come up with, and she said,  If you
say so,   aucle.

=Aldo looked at =DeDe. She was calmly
chewing on her sandwich as if nothing
happened. All around them children were
shouting and laughing, but =DeDe was acting as
if raw eggs flew through the air every day.
The parent aide marched over to =Aldo.  Was
that your idea of a joke?  she asked.
 No,  said =Aldo honestly. He was about to
say that he hadn't even brought the egg to
school, but he didn't want to tell on =DeDe.
 I don't play with food,  he said.
 I don't think anyone else will after this
either,  said the aide. For the first time she
smiled at =Aldo.  That was a good trick. He
deserved it,  she said, as she walked off.
=Aldo looked at =DeDe. She was putting her
moustache back on as she always did after
lunch. Even though it hid most of her mouth, he
could see that she was smiling at him.
 I told you I couldn't bring a hard-boiled
egg,  she said.  So I brought a raw one. 


=Hester nodded and returned to =Warton
and =Morton.  Very well,  she said,  you may
come in for a short while if you promise to obey
our rules. 
Rules?  said =Warton.
 Yes,  said =Hester.  When my cousin and I
first moved in together, we quickly discovered
that when there is more than one creature
living under the same roof, there can be many
problems. So we made rules to keep problems
from happening. 
 That's right,  said =Cora.  And this is what
they are. One, don't touch anything that is not
yours. 
=Cora said no more, and after a while =Warton
said,  =What are the other rules? 
 That's all there are,  said =Cora.  We found
that if we followed that rule we needed no
others. Now, will you obey it? 
Yes,  said =Warton and =Morton.
 Then we may all go inside,  said =Hester.
=Warton and =Morton followed the tree toads
into their home. As =Hester and =Cora bolted
to the door, =Warton looked around and he was
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00001 111 If I were as big as a lion, if I were as small as a flea,
00002 111 if I were as wide as a whiskery walrus, what in the world
00003 111 would I be? If I were as old as a tortoise, if I were as young as a
00004 111 bee, if I were as long as a silvery snake, what in the world would
00005 111 I be. If I were as smooth as a slippery seal, if I were as smooth
00006 111 as a flippery seal, if I were as strong as a lumbering ox or as shy
00007 111 as a deer or as sly as a fox or as wise as an owl or as dumb as a
00008 111 fowl or as a smart as a dog or as plump as a hog or if I were as 
00009 111 nice as a milky cow or as stout all about as a pot-bellied sow
00010 111 well, I'd certainly be a sight to see but I wouldn't, I wouldn't be 
00011 111 me!

00012 111 On the first day of spring, it was beautiful. It made =Delilah
00013 111 happy. It made her so happy that she wanted to sing. Oh, what a
00014 111 beautiful morning, she sang as she put on her favorite pair of 
00015 111 jeans. Her mother came rushing in from the kitchen. =Delilah, what's
00016 111 wrong, she asked? Nothing, =Delilah answered. It's a beautiful day,
00017 111 and I was just singing about it. So that's what it was. I thought 
00018 111 you were in pain. =Delilah blushed. =Delilah, I know it's not right
00019 111 for a mother to be discouraging, but you are the worst singer I've
00020 111 ever heard. If you must sing, please sing somewhere else. Okay?

00021 111 What does a table have that you have? Legs! A table stands on four
00022 111 legs. You stand on two legs. Some table legs end with feet. Your 
00023 111 legs end with feet. What has elbows but no arms?  The pipes in the 
00024 111 kitchen. Elbow is the name for the part of a pipe with a bend.
00025 111 Some macaroni has a bend too. It is called elbow macaroni. What do
00026 111 your head and a clock have in front? A face! What else does a clock
00027 111 have that you have? Two hands. A clock's hands point to the time
00028 111 on its face. Your hands can point anywhere. A clock's face has no
00029 111 eyes, no nose, and no mouth. But your face has all of these. A
00030 111 potato has eyes but no face. A potato's eyes can't see. 

00031 111 It's theater. It's music. It's colors and costumes and magical
00032 111 lights. But more than that, it's learning and constant practice.
00033 111 It's hard work and striving to be the best. It's the =DanceTheater
00034 111 of =Harlem! The =DanceTheaterofHarlem is one of the newest ballet
00035 111 companies in the world. It was started in =1969 in =Harlem. =Harlem
00036 111 is a black community in NewYork city. The =DanceTheater began as a 
00037 111 dream of one man, =ArthurMitchell. Now the dream is more than just
00038 111 =ArthurMitchell's. It's shared by all the dancers, dance students, 
00039 111 and audiences of the =DanceTheater. The =DanceTheater has danced all
00040 111 over the world.

00041 111 =EdwardBear, known to his friends as =Winnie-the-Pooh, or =Pooh for
00042 111 short, was walking through the forest one day humming proudly to
00043 111 himself. He had made up a little hum that very morning, as he was 
00044 111 doing his stoutness exercises in front of the glass. =Tra-la-la-la
00045 111 as he stretched up as high as he could go, and then =tra, as he 
00046 111 tried to reach his toes. After breakfast he had said it over and 
00047 111 over to himself until he had learned it by heart, and now he was 
00048 111 humming it right through, properly. Well, he was humming this hum to
00049 111 himself, and walking along gaily, wondering what everybody else was
00050 111 doing, and what it felt like being somebody else, when suddenly he
00051 111 came to a sandy bank, and in the bank was a large hole.

00052 111 Once, a long time ago, a beautiful house was built in NewYork city.
00053 111 It had a wide stoop and an iron railing with a gate in front.
00054 111 Inside, the rooms were large, with high ceilings, and almost every
00055 111 room had a fireplace. Many of them had glittering chandeliers that
00056 111 were lighted with hundreds of tiny candles. The stairway, with its
00057 111 banisters of smooth mahogany, was wide and graceful. The people who 
00058 111 built the house wanted it to last for many, many years. The house
00059 111 did last for many years, although it was slowly surrounded by tall
00060 111 buildings.

00061 111 The years was =1816. There were no airplanes, no trains, and no 
00062 111 cars. How did people get around? They walked, they rode on the backs
00063 111 of animals, or they used wagons or carriages. The one day, Baron
00064 111 =VonSauerbronn of Germany got tired of touring his land on foot or 
00065 111 by carriage. He wanted a new and easier way to get around. So what 
00066 111 did he do? He invented the bicycle. The Baron's bicycle was an 
00067 111 immediate success. Within a few years, it began to be used in many 
00068 111 different countries. But back then, a bicycle wasn't cheap. Believe 
00069 111 it or not, in the =1800's, a bicycle cost the same as what =$2400 is
00070 111 in today's money. It took many years to develop a bicycle that was 
00071 111 inexpensive enough for most people to buy.

00072 111 The doorbell rang, and =Lisa galloped over to help =Mother open the 
00073 111 door. =Heather, =Lisa's favorite babysitter, walked in. =Heather 
00074 111 bent down and said, Hi, =Lis. You got your haircut. Now I can tickle
00075 111 you right here on the back of your neck. What do you have on, asked 
00076 111 =Lisa? She opened =Heather's coat. =Heather had come right from
00077 111 hockey practice. Under her long coat she wore shorts. Purple and 
00078 111 orange stripes chased each other around her knee socks. =Lisa always
00079 111 had a good time with =Heather. =Heather liked to read books aloud,
00080 111 and she laughed hard at the silly parts and made her voice spooky
00081 111 for the scary parts.

00082 111 Did you know that the plants you see in this kitchen window garden
00083 111 grew from fruits and vegetables you can find in your supermarket?
00084 111 What kinds of vegetables and fruits are they? They are avocados, 
00085 111 carrots, beets and sweet potatoes. And, as you can see, they all
00086 111 make lovely and interesting plants. By following the steps
00087 111 on the next few pages, you can grow these plants yourself. You might
00088 111 find one of these fruits or vegetables at home in your own
00089 111 refrigerator. If not, you can ask your mother or father to help you
00090 111 pick some out. Then you'll be well on your way to growing your own
00091 111 kitchen window garden.

00092 111 =AndrewMarcus wanted freckles. =NickyLane had freckles. He had 
00093 111 about a million of them They covered his face, his ears, and the 
00094 111 back of his neck. =Andrew didn't have any freckles. If he had 
00095 111 freckles like =Nicky, his mother would never know if his neck was
00096 111 dirty. So he wouldn't have to wash. And then he'd never be late 
00097 111 for school. =Andrew had plenty of time to look at =Nicky's freckles.
00098 111 He sat right behind him in class. Once he even tried to count them.
00099 111 But when he got to eighty-six, Miss =Kekky called =Andrew, are you 
00100 111 paying attention?
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00001 111 =Jan walked home from school slowly. The question she was asking
00002 111 herself over and over again made her hurt inside. Why wasn't she 
00003 111 asked to the party? When she reached her house, her younger 
00004 111 brother =Bart came to meet her, carrying a baseball and bat. Want to
00005 111 throw the ball for me? =Jan did not really want to, but she knew
00006 111 he has been waiting for her. Okay. =Bart missed most of the balls
00007 111 but hit a few. =Let's stop and get some milk, =Jan said finally.
00008 111 They raced each other to the house. The kitchen smelled spicy-warm.
00009 111 Their mother was just taking fresh-baked apple tarts from the oven.
00010 111 Have one each, she offered.

00011 111 I have a sister. My sister is deaf. She is special. There are not
00012 111 many sisters like mine. My sister can play the piano. She likes to
00013 111 feel the deep rumbling chords. But she will never be able to sing.
00014 111 She cannot hear the tune. My sister can dance with a partner or 
00014 111 march
00015 111 in a line. She likes to leap, to tumble, to roll, to climb to the 
00016 111 top of the monkey bars. She watches me as we climb. I watch her too.
00017 111 She cannot hear me shout Look out! But she can see me swinging her
00018 111 way. She laughs and swings backward, trying to catch my legs. I
00019 111 have a sister who likes to go with me out to the grassy lot behind 
00020 111 our house. Today we are stalking deer. I turned to speak to her.

00021 111 I think that great dinosaurs would be such fun to ride. If only I
00022 111 could figure out a way to get a ride. When I go to the =Museumof
00023 111 =NaturalHistory, I like to look at the skeletons of those monsters
00024 111 who lived long, long ago. I keep thinking how great it would be
00025 111 if they were around now. I'd tame them and train them to carry me 
00026 111 around on their backs. It might be a little scary but it certainly 
00027 111 would be fun. If I could ride a =diplodocus, the longest dinosaur,
00028 111 as long as three school buses, I'd ride it to the middle of the 
00029 111 river and stop. Its head would reach one bank, its tail the other.
00030 111 It'd keep busy nibbling water plants all day, and I'd set up a 
00031 111 tollbooth for people who wanted to short cut across the river.

00032 111 Young =BenjaminBanneker was full of curiosity. What was that object
00033 111 in =JosephLevi's palm? When =Benjamin took it up in his hand, he 
00034 111 noticed that the thing made a sound, a soft ticking sound. On what
00035 111 was obviously the front side, there were two long stems pointing
00036 111 at different numbers. The thing in his hand was a pocket watch. 
00037 111 =JosephLevi knew that =Benjamin was fascinated with the watch. 
00038 111 But he probably didn't know what =BenjaminBanneker was going to 
00039 111 achieve with it. On his way home that night with =JosephLevi's
00040 111 gift clutched tightly in his hand, =Benjamin thought about his new
00041 111 watch.

00042 111 One of =Angie's favorite places was the secondhand store. The sign
00043 111 in front said Antiques and junk for sale. The old store had three
00044 111 rooms. The front room contained expensive furniture and dishes, but
00045 111 items in the second room cost less. The junk was in the third room.
00046 111 Some things in the junk room cost less than a dollar. The junk
00047 111 room overflowed into a weedy fenced-in junkyard in the back.
00048 111 =Angie went to the secondhand store hoping to find an unusual
00049 111 but inexpensive present for her father's birthday. Have you got any
00050 111 really good junk today, Mr =Whitaker, asked =Angie.

00051 111 Today, cowboys sing, in Texas. They sing =zzzz. Everybody knows how
00052 111 cowboys sing, today, in Texas. But it was not always so. Things were
00053 111 quiet, once, in Texas. Long ago, cowboys were silent. And the most
00054 111 silent cowboy in all of Texas was =SlimJimBean. Once, in that old 
00055 111 and silent time, =SlimJim was guarding a herd of cattle at night.
00056 111 It was a long, dark night. And =SlimJimBean was lonely. I wish I
00057 111 could hear a little noise, he thought. Any kind of a little noise
00058 111 that would not frighten the cows. =SlimJim knew that if anything
00059 111 frightened the cows, they would stampede. They would stampede and
00060 111 run all over Texas.

00061 111 =Gussie was a friendly ghost, who lived in an attic apartment
00062 111 in an old house in the country. The house was so old that its 
00063 111 shingles curled, its windows were cracked, and its paint was
00064 111 peeling. In the summer Mr and Mrs =Scott lived in the house.
00065 111 The =Scotts didn't believe in ghosts, but when =Gussie banged
00066 111 and clanked with her =bang-clank equipment, they told their
00067 111 friends proudly, We've got a ghost named =Gussie. When the 
00068 111 =Scotts moved out in the fall, =Mouse moved in. =Gussie made
00069 111 cheesecake for him, and they played checkers by a crackling fire.
00070 111 Summer and winter, =Gussie led a happy life.

00071 111 =Grandpa and I like summertime best. We like packing the car, 
00072 111 squishing everything in. We come to the cottage at night, and the
00073 111 windows look yellow and warm. The cottage has a long, long porch,
00074 111 and it sits on a bluff by the lake. But it's what we do there that's
00075 111 special for =Grandpa and me. In the morning we walk to the beach
00076 111 when there's no one there but us. The sun's just up and the sand's
00077 111 still cool between our toes. The lake's still calm. There's a kind 
00078 111 of quiet we like to hear, crying gulls and freighters horns and
00079 111 waves along the beach. We listen and we walk. There are tracks on 
00080 111 the sand in the morning, from gulls and pipers, from crabs and 
00080 111 spiders.

00081 111 Many people have discovered a new way of communicating. They can do
00082 111 it anywhere, in a car, at home, even in a resturant. What is this 
00083 111 great discovery? The =CB or citizens band radio.  =CB radio first 
00084 111 became popular with truck drivers in =1974. Today many people 
00085 111 who drive cars use =CB radios.  For people on the move, a =CB radio
00086 111 set can be a useful tool. People use =CB radios for many reasons. 
00087 111 Most people use their radios to make driving safer. They swap 
00088 111 information about the weather, the condition of the road, the 
00089 111 traffic. They use =CB radios to call for help in case of an
00090 111 emergency. Truck drivers who drive long distances find that having a
00091 111 =CB helps them keep awake and prevents them from becoming bored.

00092 111 =Amos, a mouse, lived by the ocean. He loved the ocean. He loved the
00093 111 smell of the sea air. He loved to hear the surf sounds, the bursting
00094 111 breakers, the backwashes with rolling pebbles. He thought a lot
00095 111 about the ocean, and he wondered about the farwaway places on the 
00096 111 other side of of the water. One day he started building a boat
00097 111 on the beach. He worked on it in the daytime, while at night he 
00098 111 studied navigation. When the boat was finished, he loaded it with
00099 111 cheese, biscuits, acorns, honey, wheat germ, two barrels of fresh
00100 111 water, a compass, a sextant, a telescope, a saw, a hammer and nails
00101 111 and some wood in case repairs should be necessary, a needle and
00102 111 thread for mending torn sails, and various other necessities such
00103 111 as bandages and iodine, a yo-yo and dominoes.
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00001 111 If I were as big as a lion, if I were as small as a flea,
00002 111 if I were as wide as a whiskery walrus, what in the world
00003 111 would I be? If I were as old as a tortoise, if I were as young as a
00004 111 bee, if I were as long as a silvery snake, what in the world would
00005 111 I be. If I were as smooth as a slippery seal, if I were as smooth
00006 111 as a flippery seal, if I were as strong as a lumbering ox or as shy
00007 111 as a deer or as sly as a fox or as wise as an owl or as dumb as a
00008 111 fowl or as a smart as a dog or as plump as a hog or if I were as 
00009 111 nice as a milky cow or as stout all about as a pot-bellied sow
00010 111 well, I'd certainly be a sight to see but I wouldn't, I wouldn't be 
00011 111 me!

00012 111 On the first day of spring, it was beautiful. It made =Delilah
00013 111 happy. It made her so happy that she wanted to sing. Oh, what a
00014 111 beautiful morning, she sang as she put on her favorite pair of 
00015 111 jeans. Her mother came rushing in from the kitchen. =Delilah, what's
00016 111 wrong, she asked? Nothing, =Delilah answered. It's a beautiful day,
00017 111 and I was just singing about it. So that's what it was. I thought 
00018 111 you were in pain. =Delilah blushed. =Delilah, I know it's not right
00019 111 for a mother to be discouraging, but you are the worst singer I've
00020 111 ever heard. If you must sing, please sing somewhere else. Okay?

00021 111 What does a table have that you have? Legs! A table stands on four
00022 111 legs. You stand on two legs. Some table legs end with feet. Your 
00023 111 legs end with feet. What has elbows but no arms?  The pipes in the 
00024 111 kitchen. Elbow is the name for the part of a pipe with a bend.
00025 111 Some macaroni has a bend too. It is called elbow macaroni. What do
00026 111 your head and a clock have in front? A face! What else does a clock
00027 111 have that you have? Two hands. A clock's hands point to the time
00028 111 on its face. Your hands can point anywhere. A clock's face has no
00029 111 eyes, no nose, and no mouth. But your face has all of these. A
00030 111 potato has eyes but no face. A potato's eyes can't see. 

00031 111 It's theater. It's music. It's colors and costumes and magical
00032 111 lights. But more than that, it's learning and constant practice.
00033 111 It's hard work and striving to be the best. It's the =DanceTheater
00034 111 of =Harlem! The =DanceTheaterofHarlem is one of the newest ballet
00035 111 companies in the world. It was started in =1969 in =Harlem. =Harlem
00036 111 is a black community in NewYork city. The =DanceTheater began as a 
00037 111 dream of one man, =ArthurMitchell. Now the dream is more than just
00038 111 =ArthurMitchell's. It's shared by all the dancers, dance students, 
00039 111 and audiences of the =DanceTheater. The =DanceTheater has danced all
00040 111 over the world.

00041 111 =EdwardBear, known to his friends as =Winnie-the-Pooh, or =Pooh for
00042 111 short, was walking through the forest one day humming proudly to
00043 111 himself. He had made up a little hum that very morning, as he was 
00044 111 doing his stoutness exercises in front of the glass. =Tra-la-la-la
00045 111 as he stretched up as high as he could go, and then =tra, as he 
00046 111 tried to reach his toes. After breakfast he had said it over and 
00047 111 over to himself until he had learned it by heart, and now he was 
00048 111 humming it right through, properly. Well, he was humming this hum to
00049 111 himself, and walking along gaily, wondering what everybody else was
00050 111 doing, and what it felt like being somebody else, when suddenly he
00051 111 came to a sandy bank, and in the bank was a large hole.

00052 111 Once, a long time ago, a beautiful house was built in NewYork city.
00053 111 It had a wide stoop and an iron railing with a gate in front.
00054 111 Inside, the rooms were large, with high ceilings, and almost every
00055 111 room had a fireplace. Many of them had glittering chandeliers that
00056 111 were lighted with hundreds of tiny candles. The stairway, with its
00057 111 banisters of smooth mahogany, was wide and graceful. The people who 
00058 111 built the house wanted it to last for many, many years. The house
00059 111 did last for many years, although it was slowly surrounded by tall
00060 111 buildings.

00061 111 The years was =1816. There were no airplanes, no trains, and no 
00062 111 cars. How did people get around? They walked, they rode on the backs
00063 111 of animals, or they used wagons or carriages. The one day, Baron
00064 111 =VonSauerbronn of Germany got tired of touring his land on foot or 
00065 111 by carriage. He wanted a new and easier way to get around. So what 
00066 111 did he do? He invented the bicycle. The Baron's bicycle was an 
00067 111 immediate success. Within a few years, it began to be used in many 
00068 111 different countries. But back then, a bicycle wasn't cheap. Believe 
00069 111 it or not, in the =1800's, a bicycle cost the same as what =$2400 is
00070 111 in today's money. It took many years to develop a bicycle that was 
00071 111 inexpensive enough for most people to buy.

00072 111 The doorbell rang, and =Lisa galloped over to help =Mother open the 
00073 111 door. =Heather, =Lisa's favorite babysitter, walked in. =Heather 
00074 111 bent down and said, Hi, =Lis. You got your haircut. Now I can tickle
00075 111 you right here on the back of your neck. What do you have on, asked 
00076 111 =Lisa? She opened =Heather's coat. =Heather had come right from
00077 111 hockey practice. Under her long coat she wore shorts. Purple and 
00078 111 orange stripes chased each other around her knee socks. =Lisa always
00079 111 had a good time with =Heather. =Heather liked to read books aloud,
00080 111 and she laughed hard at the silly parts and made her voice spooky
00081 111 for the scary parts.

00082 111 Did you know that the plants you see in this kitchen window garden
00083 111 grew from fruits and vegetables you can find in your supermarket?
00084 111 What kinds of vegetables and fruits are they? They are avocados, 
00085 111 carrots, beets and sweet potatoes. And, as you can see, they all
00086 111 make lovely and interesting plants. By following the steps
00087 111 on the next few pages, you can grow these plants yourself. You might
00088 111 find one of these fruits or vegetables at home in your own
00089 111 refrigerator. If not, you can ask your mother or father to help you
00090 111 pick some out. Then you'll be well on your way to growing your own
00091 111 kitchen window garden.

00092 111 =AndrewMarcus wanted freckles. =NickyLane had freckles. He had 
00093 111 about a million of them They covered his face, his ears, and the 
00094 111 back of his neck. =Andrew didn't have any freckles. If he had 
00095 111 freckles like =Nicky, his mother would never know if his neck was
00096 111 dirty. So he wouldn't have to wash. And then he'd never be late 
00097 111 for school. =Andrew had plenty of time to look at =Nicky's freckles.
00098 111 He sat right behind him in class. Once he even tried to count them.
00099 111 But when he got to eighty-six, Miss =Kekky called =Andrew, are you 
00100 111 paying attention?
00000 000 SCOTT FORESMAN READERS  GRADE 3--2ND READER  LEVEL 8  SCOT32.TXT
00000 000 "GOLDEN SECRETS" NO AUTHOR ON COVER  1981         DISKS 91; 539
00000 000 TRANSCRIBED BY DPH  MAR 83  STRAT. SRS beginning with passages
00000 000 on pages 25; 78; 93; 129; 155; 208; 260; 288; 313; 347.

00001 111 =Jan walked home from school slowly. The question she was asking
00002 111 herself over and over again made her hurt inside. Why wasn't she 
00003 111 asked to the party? When she reached her house, her younger 
00004 111 brother =Bart came to meet her, carrying a baseball and bat. Want to
00005 111 throw the ball for me? =Jan did not really want to, but she knew
00006 111 he has been waiting for her. Okay. =Bart missed most of the balls
00007 111 but hit a few. =Let's stop and get some milk, =Jan said finally.
00008 111 They raced each other to the house. The kitchen smelled spicy-warm.
00009 111 Their mother was just taking fresh-baked apple tarts from the oven.
00010 111 Have one each, she offered.

00011 111 I have a sister. My sister is deaf. She is special. There are not
00012 111 many sisters like mine. My sister can play the piano. She likes to
00013 111 feel the deep rumbling chords. But she will never be able to sing.
00014 111 She cannot hear the tune. My sister can dance with a partner or 
00014 111 march
00015 111 in a line. She likes to leap, to tumble, to roll, to climb to the 
00016 111 top of the monkey bars. She watches me as we climb. I watch her too.
00017 111 She cannot hear me shout Look out! But she can see me swinging her
00018 111 way. She laughs and swings backward, trying to catch my legs. I
00019 111 have a sister who likes to go with me out to the grassy lot behind 
00020 111 our house. Today we are stalking deer. I turned to speak to her.

00021 111 I think that great dinosaurs would be such fun to ride. If only I
00022 111 could figure out a way to get a ride. When I go to the =Museumof
00023 111 =NaturalHistory, I like to look at the skeletons of those monsters
00024 111 who lived long, long ago. I keep thinking how great it would be
00025 111 if they were around now. I'd tame them and train them to carry me 
00026 111 around on their backs. It might be a little scary but it certainly 
00027 111 would be fun. If I could ride a =diplodocus, the longest dinosaur,
00028 111 as long as three school buses, I'd ride it to the middle of the 
00029 111 river and stop. Its head would reach one bank, its tail the other.
00030 111 It'd keep busy nibbling water plants all day, and I'd set up a 
00031 111 tollbooth for people who wanted to short cut across the river.

00032 111 Young =BenjaminBanneker was full of curiosity. What was that object
00033 111 in =JosephLevi's palm? When =Benjamin took it up in his hand, he 
00034 111 noticed that the thing made a sound, a soft ticking sound. On what
00035 111 was obviously the front side, there were two long stems pointing
00036 111 at different numbers. The thing in his hand was a pocket watch. 
00037 111 =JosephLevi knew that =Benjamin was fascinated with the watch. 
00038 111 But he probably didn't know what =BenjaminBanneker was going to 
00039 111 achieve with it. On his way home that night with =JosephLevi's
00040 111 gift clutched tightly in his hand, =Benjamin thought about his new
00041 111 watch.

00042 111 One of =Angie's favorite places was the secondhand store. The sign
00043 111 in front said Antiques and junk for sale. The old store had three
00044 111 rooms. The front room contained expensive furniture and dishes, but
00045 111 items in the second room cost less. The junk was in the third room.
00046 111 Some things in the junk room cost less than a dollar. The junk
00047 111 room overflowed into a weedy fenced-in junkyard in the back.
00048 111 =Angie went to the secondhand store hoping to find an unusual
00049 111 but inexpensive present for her father's birthday. Have you got any
00050 111 really good junk today, Mr =Whitaker, asked =Angie.

00051 111 Today, cowboys sing, in Texas. They sing =zzzz. Everybody knows how
00052 111 cowboys sing, today, in Texas. But it was not always so. Things were
00053 111 quiet, once, in Texas. Long ago, cowboys were silent. And the most
00054 111 silent cowboy in all of Texas was =SlimJimBean. Once, in that old 
00055 111 and silent time, =SlimJim was guarding a herd of cattle at night.
00056 111 It was a long, dark night. And =SlimJimBean was lonely. I wish I
00057 111 could hear a little noise, he thought. Any kind of a little noise
00058 111 that would not frighten the cows. =SlimJim knew that if anything
00059 111 frightened the cows, they would stampede. They would stampede and
00060 111 run all over Texas.

00061 111 =Gussie was a friendly ghost, who lived in an attic apartment
00062 111 in an old house in the country. The house was so old that its 
00063 111 shingles curled, its windows were cracked, and its paint was
00064 111 peeling. In the summer Mr and Mrs =Scott lived in the house.
00065 111 The =Scotts didn't believe in ghosts, but when =Gussie banged
00066 111 and clanked with her =bang-clank equipment, they told their
00067 111 friends proudly, We've got a ghost named =Gussie. When the 
00068 111 =Scotts moved out in the fall, =Mouse moved in. =Gussie made
00069 111 cheesecake for him, and they played checkers by a crackling fire.
00070 111 Summer and winter, =Gussie led a happy life.

00071 111 =Grandpa and I like summertime best. We like packing the car, 
00072 111 squishing everything in. We come to the cottage at night, and the
00073 111 windows look yellow and warm. The cottage has a long, long porch,
00074 111 and it sits on a bluff by the lake. But it's what we do there that's
00075 111 special for =Grandpa and me. In the morning we walk to the beach
00076 111 when there's no one there but us. The sun's just up and the sand's
00077 111 still cool between our toes. The lake's still calm. There's a kind 
00078 111 of quiet we like to hear, crying gulls and freighters horns and
00079 111 waves along the beach. We listen and we walk. There are tracks on 
00080 111 the sand in the morning, from gulls and pipers, from crabs and 
00080 111 spiders.

00081 111 Many people have discovered a new way of communicating. They can do
00082 111 it anywhere, in a car, at home, even in a resturant. What is this 
00083 111 great discovery? The =CB or citizens band radio.  =CB radio first 
00084 111 became popular with truck drivers in =1974. Today many people 
00085 111 who drive cars use =CB radios.  For people on the move, a =CB radio
00086 111 set can be a useful tool. People use =CB radios for many reasons. 
00087 111 Most people use their radios to make driving safer. They swap 
00088 111 information about the weather, the condition of the road, the 
00089 111 traffic. They use =CB radios to call for help in case of an
00090 111 emergency. Truck drivers who drive long distances find that having a
00091 111 =CB helps them keep awake and prevents them from becoming bored.

00092 111 =Amos, a mouse, lived by the ocean. He loved the ocean. He loved the
00093 111 smell of the sea air. He loved to hear the surf sounds, the bursting
00094 111 breakers, the backwashes with rolling pebbles. He thought a lot
00095 111 about the ocean, and he wondered about the farwaway places on the 
00096 111 other side of of the water. One day he started building a boat
00097 111 on the beach. He worked on it in the daytime, while at night he 
00098 111 studied navigation. When the boat was finished, he loaded it with
00099 111 cheese, biscuits, acorns, honey, wheat germ, two barrels of fresh
00100 111 water, a compass, a sextant, a telescope, a saw, a hammer and nails
00101 111 and some wood in case repairs should be necessary, a needle and
00102 111 thread for mending torn sails, and various other necessities such
00103 111 as bandages and iodine, a yo-yo and dominoes.
&&000 SCOTT, FORESMAN (1985)  3RD GRADE      SF19853R.ASC
Combined 2 books
Source: Kutztown U.  xeroxed by LW scanned/edited by DPH 12-22-92

&&111

I walked into the room where my mother
was working.  Mom,  I said,  next =Monday
=Maria will be moving away. How can I make
her moving day a happy =one7 I promised I
wouldn't buy her a present, but I can't think
of anything else. What can I do? 
Why not give her something of yours? 
asked =Mom.  Sharing it with her would make
it really special. 
 That's great, =Mom,  I said.  But I don't
think I ha~e anything special enough to share. 
I went to my room and looked at
everything there. Not one thing seemed to be
special enough for =Maria. Then I had an idea.
The following =Monday morning I sat on
the steps with the present in my lap. When
=Maria came out, she sat down next to me.
 Oh, =Maria,  I said,  I'll really miss
you. Here, I want you to have my plant. Do
you know the best part? The plant is called a
forget-me-not. 

Soon =Jerry, =Sally, and =Mother were
standing by the lake. A few ducks came
swimming by. Jerry gave his little sister the
loaf of crushed bread.
 For me?  =Sally asked. She could not
remember ever before having so much bread
to feed the ducks.
All for you,  =Jerry said.  Happy
birthday. 
=Sally took some bread and broke it into
little bits. She began to throw them into the
water. This soon drew a crowd of ducks
around them.


There is motion all
around us.
Have you ever watched
a puppy chase its tail?
That is motion.
Have you ever watched
bee moving from flower to
flower? That is motion.
Have you ever watched
people walking along a
street? That is motion.
Look at this picture.
Can you see motion in it
too?

 The curtain goes up. MRS =BROWN is in the
kitchen. Her two children troop in. 

MRS =BROWN  holding a letter : =Aunt =Mary left a
gift for you today, but she hid it. She's
written clues. Follow the clues, and find
the gift.  
=AMY takes the letter and reads to
herself

=SUE: I want to hear it.  Read it aloud.

=AMY  reading aloud from the letter : I'm sorry I
had to hurry home. Put on your
thinking caps and follow the clues I've
written. Then the surprise I've left will
be yours. Love, =Aunt =Mary.
Clue one: =Said =Uncle =John to =Unde =Hugh,
This will make me tall, like you.



=David and =Julio know it is necessary to
pay attention during every moment of their
acts. It would be dangerous for =David if he
did not know where each bear was. It is
necessary for =Julio to have his full attention
on the wire so he will not fall.
Perhaps performing in front of people is
the most interesting part of =David and =Julio's
lives. They like knowing that they make
people happy. Circus shows are exciting and
wonderful to see. The acts the boys are in
are very popular. Perhaps you'll see them
someday.


Once long ago in a country far away, there
was a good and great king. He lived in a
beautiful and rich city. Yet he had no
palace. Of course, there was a reason why
the king had no palace.
Years before, there had been a beautiful
palace in the city. The walls of the palace
had shone in the sunlight. People had come
from far away to see this grand palace. 


Silky is a big dog. Silky was =Josie's pet.
For a while, she lived in =Josie's small
apartment. =Silky was not happy there because
the apartment was too small for her.
If =Silky wagged her tail, she would knock
something over. If she barked, the neighbors
complained. But there was something else not
good at all. =Silky could not exercise. There
was no room in the apartment for her to
exerclse.
=Silky went to live with some new people.
They lived on a farm. Anyone can guess how
happy she was. She could wag her tail. She
could bark loudly. And no one complained.
Best of all, =Silky could run far and wide.


=STORYTELLER: =So the shoemaker and his wife
got more leather. They cut the leather
for two pairs of shoes.  The shoemaker
and his wife are cutting leather.  That night
they left it in the shop and went to    
bed.  They go out. The shop gets dark. 
Just like the night before, something
happened.  The elves come in and make
two pairs of shoes. They depart.  In the
morning.     The shop gets light. The
shoemaker and his wife come in. 

=SHOEMAKER: Come and look! Two pairs of
shoes! They are very well made. Where
did they come from?  a knock 

=WIFE: I hope it is somebody wanting shoes.
How did those fine, shiny shoes get
here? Somebody will pay quite a lot for
such shoes.  The shoemaker opens the door. 

=WOMAN  She comes in and sees the shoes. 
What fine shoes! They are very well made. I
would like to buy them.  She pays the
shoemaker. 


Not all actors on =TV are people. The
animals in these pictures are acting. How do
you think an animal gets to be an actor?


=Larry lifted the cover.  A parrot! 
 It's for you. She can talk, and one of the
things she says best is do me a favor.' 
 Oh, no! cried =Larry.  It was the parrot
asking for those things. I thought it was
you! 
 I'm glad you did,  said his uncle. When
she asks for something, it means she wants
it. Give her some water and some of the
banana. You pleased both of us. You did me
a favor by letting me sleep. You did her a
favor by bringing what she wanted. 
 But,  asked =Larry, feeding the parrot,
 why does she want the book? 
 I can't imagine,  said =Uncle =Brad.  Most
of the time she reads the newspaper. 
=Larry looked to see if his uncle was
kidding. He was.


Another balloon game is  Hit the =Mark.
It is a game in which a balloon pilot tries to hit
a mark with a bag of sand. The mark is a
large cloth =X placed on the ground. The pilot
tries to fly over the =X and drop the bag. The
pilot whose bag lands closest to the =X wins.
Both  =Hare and =Hounds  and  =Hit the
=Mark  test the skills of balloon pilots. It is
not always easy to fly a balloon to the right
place. The pilot has to think and act fast.



 It means these turkeys are not telling the
truth. Because turkeys don't fly south. 
Then let's go get them!  said =Captain
=Bill. And he waved his musket in the
direction of the woods.
=Solomon ran and found his wife =Regina
and his two children, =Lavinia and =Alfred.
took them to the woods.
 You see those =Pilgrims?  =Solomon said.
 They want us for =Thanksgiving dinner.
We've got to stop them! 
=Lavinia and =Alfred strung a rope between
the trees. As =Captain =Bill and his men
marched into the woods, they tripped and fell.
&&000 SCOTT, FORESMAN   (1987)  3RD GRADE           SF19873R.ASC
CITY SPACES (3-1) LEVEL 7; ON PARADE (3-2) LEVEL 8
By Richard L. Allington et al
Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scan, edit by DPH January 14, 1993

&&111


The police chief took off the lid.
 Thank you,  said =Chameleon, dripping pickle juice
over the desk. He followed his mother out the door
and hurried home.
 =Chameleon,  said his mother at breakfast,  how did
you like your new job? 
 It was all right,  said =Chameleon,  if you like being
a pickle. 
The telephone rang.
 Hello,  answered =Chameleon.
 I've read the morning paper,  said the president of
the =Pleasant =Pickle =Company.  Good work! 
 Thank you,  said =Chameleon.
 Did you get the formula      ? 
 Yes,  said =Chameleon.
 =YAHOOOOOOOOOO!  yelled the president into the
telephone.
 I'll be right down,  said =Chameleon.



Mrs =Higgenbottom nodded.  What is it, =Emily? 
 I think we should decorate the room with origami.
All different colors. We can hang them on strings, lots
of them, by the windows and in front of the boards
and from the lights, too. 
 =Hey, that will look great,  =Ivy said.
Mrs =Higgenbottom agreed.  Good idea. But who
will make them all? We haven't much time. 
 =Johnny!  shouted the class.
=Johnny looked up, surprised.
 How about it, =Ringer?  called =Leo.
 Okay,  said =Johnny.  I guess I can do it. 
They spent the day preparing for the party. =Emily
wrote haiku. =Ivy drew pictures. =Leo and =Phyllis
practiced a puppet show. =Mary =Louise and =Patricia
worked on the kimono. And =Johnny sat by the window
and made origami figures.
The class stopped their projects after lunch to learn
a =Japanese song, and they each wrote a letter to a
child in Mr =Uchida's class in =Japan.
 I hope they write back,  said =Leo.
=Johnny wrote an extra letter. It was to Mr =Uchida.
Emily noticed it when she put her letter in the box.
 Want some help hanging up your animals?  =Emily
asked =Johnny.
He nodded.  But be careful not to bend them. 
They strung the figures across the boards and hung
them in front of the windows. The wind turned them
gently on their threads.



The Space Shuttle
The space shuttle gave us a better way of learning
more about space. For the first time ever, we could
put satellites in space and return to earth safely. It
costs more to send up a shuttle than it does to send
up a rocket, but a shuttle can do much more than
a rocket.
A shuttle can be used again and again. It can fly
many trips before it wears out. On one of those trips
its crew might set loose a new satellite one day and
repair an old satellite the next day. Someone from the
shuttle might float out to fix the satellite, or the crew
might bring the satellite inside.
A shuttle can carry =65'000 pounds of payload. The
really big payload fits into what is called the cargo
bay. This part of the shuttle is big enough to carry a
bus. Some payloads, like =Spacelab, stay in the cargo
bay. Others, like the =Space =Telescope, are set loose.
Some people say that someday we will be able to
build cities in space. If that is so, many heavy things
will have to be carried into space. That day could
never come without the hard-working shuttles.




 All mine!  =Yertle cried.  Oh, the things I now rule!
I'm king of a cow! And I'm king of a mule!
I'm king of a house! And, what's more, beyond that,
I'm king of a blueberry bush and a cat!
I'm =Yertle the =Turtle! Oh, marvelous me!
For I am the ruler of all that I see! 

And all through that morning, he sat there up high
Saying over and over,  A great king am I! 
Until long about noon. Then he heard a faint sigh.
 What's that?  snapped the king
And he looked down the stack.
And he saw, at the bottom, a turtle named =Mack.
Just a part of his throne. And this plain little turtle
Looked up and he said,  Beg your pardon, =King =Yertle.
I've pains in my back and my shoulders and knees.
How long must we stand here, =Your =Majesty, please? 



Using the Encyclopedia
What was one of the first things you learned before
you could read? If you think back, you will remember
it was the alphabet, that special set of letters on
which our language is built.
What makes this set of letters so special, and where
did the idea of an alphabet begin? To find out, try
looking in an encyclopedia.
An encyclopedia is a book or set of books with
articles about many different things. A book in an
encyclopedia set is called a volume. Each volume has
a number and one or more letters on it. The volumes
are in alphabetical order. Find the numbers and
letters on the encyclopedia below.
An article in an encyclopedia is called an entry. At
the beginning of each entry is a word in darker type
called an entry word. The entry word tells what the
article is about. An entry word may be only one word,



Look how =Filomena has grown,  cried
=Felipe's cousin.
 She is as tall as =Felipe now,  said =Aunt =Maria.
 =EEEEEAW-ee-AW!  sang =Filomena proudly. She let
=Felipe climb on her back. Her legs were strong. She
trotted in a little circle, showing off.
Uncle =Carlos said,  =Our cowboy has a horse! She will
pull logs when we build our new house. And she
will help us farm! 
 Easy there!  said =Aunt =Maria.  Don't work our little
friend too hard!  =She rubbed =Filomena's nose.
At last they came through the mountains. They saw
green hills rolling away to the sea.  We are home at
last,  =Felipe whispered to =Filomena. And =Filomena sang, 
=EEEEAW-ee-AW-ee-AW!  



 I don't believe that is proper,  said =Pythias.  It is
not right for any man to bow to another. If I were
king, I would not ask you to bow to me. 
 It is not for you to decide what is right and
proper. I am the king. My word is the law,  the
king shouted, his face red.  You do not obey me, so
you must die! 
Even the king's guards were shocked at his
words.
 Just because I would not bow, I must die! 
=Pythias cried.
The king was already sorry he had spoken in
haste and anger, but he was too proud to change
his mind.
 I have spoken. You must die,  =Dionysius said.
 Will you grant me one last wish?  =Pythias asked.
 Let me go to the village where my mother, father,
sister, and sweetheart live. Let me say a last
good-by to those I love. I will return before three
weeks have ended and accept my fate. 
 You must think me stupid!  the king said.  If I let
you go, you will never come back. 



Signals and Language
Almost all animals make signals to warn each other
of danger. They make signals to show that they are
angry or hungry. They signal to tell other animals to
stay away. But most animals make only a few different
signals because they can only make a few sounds.
These signals do not give much information. A
signal that means  I am hurt  does not tell how the
animal got hurt, what is wrong with it, or how badly it
is hurt. To give information like this, an animal would
have to use some kind of language.
Dolphins make many sounds. Scientists have
counted about two =thousand different whistles that
dolphins can make. Because dolphins make so many
sounds, scientists wonder if dolphins give each other
more information than signals can give. Do dolphins
have a language of their own?

What Do Dolphins Say?
Scientists know that dolphins answer each other. If
one dolphin whistles, the dolphins nearby whistle
back. To learn more about dolphins answering each
other, scientists have done experiments with dolphins
and telephones.
Two dolphins named =Doris and =Dash were in an
experiment in =1965. Scientists who worked for the
=Navy put =Doris in one tank and =Dash in another. Then
underwater telephones were set up so =Doris and
=Dash could hear one another.



As I was going to =Strawberry =Fair,
Singing buttercups and daisies
I met a maiden taking the air, 
Her eyes were blue and gold her hair,
As she goes on to =Strawberry =Fair.
Way down south where bananas grow,
The ant stepped on an elephant's toe
Then the elephant cried with tears in his eyes,
Why don't you pick on somebody your size?


So now the =Emperor walked in the procession, right
through the streets of his city.
And all the people standing by and those at the
windows cried out,  Oh, how beautiful the =Emperor's
new clothes are! How well they fit! What a splendid
train!  
No one said that he could not see any clothes, for
that would mean he was foolish or not fit for his job.
Never before had any of the =Emperor's clothes
brought about so much excitement.
 But the =Emperor has nothing on at all!  said a
little child.



 It's enormous! It's gigantic! It's immense! It's
fantastic!  they shouted with joy when they saw the
piece of cheese.
They pushed and pulled and tugged. Finally they
managed to carry it to =Geraldine's hideout.
There, =Geraldine climbed to the very top of the
cheese. She dug her little teeth into it. She pulled
away crumb after crumb, chunk after chunk.



Figuring Out the Main Idea and Details.


In a word or two, think of a name for this photo.
You might pick music or musicians. Then think of a
sentence that describes the most important thing in
the photo. For this photo, your sentence might be
This is a group of people playing music together.
The people and the instruments in the photo are
details that tell more about the main idea.
To understand what a paragraph is all about, do the
same thing. Think of one or two words that tell what
the paragraph is about. This is the topic. Look for a
sentence that tells the most important idea in the
paragraph. This sentence tells the main idea.
Knowing the main idea often helps you understand
the paragraph. The other sentences in a paragraph
give details about the main idea. Details are small
pieces of information that tell more about the main
idea.
Selections have main ideas. To find the main idea of
a selection, first decide what the topic is. Then think
of a sentence that tells the most important idea about
the topic.
&&000 Holt, Rinehart, and Winston  (1983)  L.Hunt    WIN9833R.ASC
      Grade 3, Levels 11 and 12 together
      Source: SUNY Cortland Library
      Scanned by DPH and edited by Loreen Wolfer

     
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The next morning =StanleyLambchop had his
picture in the newspaper.
For a while everywhere =Stanley went people
looked at him. He could hear them whisper,
Look at that boy over there. That's =Stanley
=Lambchop. He's the one who caught the
sneak thieves.
And then something strange began to happen.
People didn't whisper anymore. They laughed
and made fun of =Stanley as he went by. They
yelled mean things about the way he looked.
=Stanleytold his father how he felt. It's the
other children I mind most, he said. They don't
like me anymore because I'm different.
It's not right to make fun of people because
they're different, Mr. =Lambchop said.
I know, =Stanley said. Only maybe it's hard
for everyone to like everyone.

Well, I think we use an awful lot of beans,
=Manuel said. They don't use so many beans
in the school lunch. You know, =Mama, they
have different ways of doing things here.
They are different from the ways of our town
on the side of the mountain. I think we
should try new ways. I think we shouldn't
use so many beans. =Mama, please make
=MexicaliSoup without beans.
=Manuel is right! =Juan said. My teacher
said only today that there is nothing that is
so good that it cannot be made better, if we
will only try. I think there may be better
ways of making soup than our old way.
Make the soup tonight without tomatoes,
=Mama! No tomatoes? Mama said. And no
beans? In =MexicaliSoup? =Mama looked at
the thoughtful face of =Juan and at the
thoughtful face of =Manuel. Then she closed
the bags of groceries carefully. She walked
away from the play street.
We will be hungry for your soup tonight,
=Mama! =Juan said.


She laughed and said, But we have your
beard. =Perian knew her meaning at once and laughed.
I'm sure it will reach to the ground, he said.
But we haven't anything sharp to cut it off
with. That is so, said =Bedelia. Hang it out the
window and let me climb down. I'll search the
castle, and maybe I can find a ladder or a stair. If
nothing else works, I can go for help.
She and the prince gathered up the beard in
their arms and went into =Bedelia's room, which
had the largest window.
=Perian hung the beard out of the window and
held it with his hands so that it wouldn't pull too
much on his face. =Bedelia climbed out of the
window and slid down the beard.



It wasn't long before the river got smaller.
The townspeople took away the sandbags and
began building a new bridge. Soon the great
rain and the flood were almost forgotten.
One summer afternoon the =OldLady and the
animals heard some lovely music. When they
opened the door, they saw the =Mayor and the
townspeople. The =Mayor began his speech. Dear =Lady,
you were not forgotten, he said. The
townspeople and I want to thank you for what
you did. I wish to give you this silver medal.
Oh, no, it's not for me, it's for =Alexander!
said the =OldLady. As she gave the medal to
=Alexander, she told the =Mayor about the night
that =Alexander swam the river.
The =Mayor and the townspeople stayed for
tea. Everyone told =Alexander how brave he
was. After they all had left, the =OldLady looked
at =Alexander. It's a lovely medal! she said to
him. What's so great about a medal? the =Brindle
=Cat said. He was jealous, of course.
=Alexander looked at his medal in the mirror
and smiled. Tears of joy ran down his face.
And inside the yarn basket the =MagicMouse
smiled, too.


=Duncer. I'm afraid that's the end of our
play. We've searched the whole town and
found no =Brontosaurus. We can't call the
police because the police can't see
=Brontosaurus. And we can't ask our
mothers and fathers for help. You , points
to audience,  are our only hope. If you find
=Brontosaurus, please feed her lots of
spaghetti and call us at this number
=555-4126.  Everyone unrolls a long paper
with a telephone number on it. =Suzy runs
onto stage, points at each number, and
says it aloud.

running off stage. =Hooray. I was in the
play. I was in the play.



Many of the men are sick from hunger, =Mary,
the =General told her. You will be helping them
very much. As they stood by the window, the =General started
to talk, more to himself than to =Mary. I wonder if
spring will ever come, he said. We can't beat
the =English without food. Then, with head down,
he left the room. I belong to the first =AmericanArmy, =Mary
thought. And it is going to be the best army in the
whole world.



Rags can't be that heavy, =Kevin said. He
reached in and pulled out some rags. Under
them was a leather box. =Kevin lifted the lid.
It's nothing but some old silver, said =Kevin.
I thought it might be worth something,
said =Ruth. =Kevin lifted out a silver spoon. It was a
beautiful shape. Maybe if we shine the silver, it
might be worth a lot of money, he said. We
could sell it. We can't sell it. It belongs to Mr. =Pendleton,
=Ruth said. He told us to take it away, said =Kevin. It's
just like we found it. Finders, keepers! The
garbage truck would have come and taken the box.



Five hundred thousand miles away
Someone is doing something today,
And I wonder what he is doing today
Five hundred thousand miles away.

Five hundred thousand miles away
Maybe he's laughing and singing today,
Or maybe he's sad and lonely today.
Five hundred thousand miles away.

Five hundred thousand miles away
I wonder if someone like me today
Is wondering what I am doing today
Five hundred thousand miles away.


At the end of a week, the first doctor
came to see the sultan. The sultan was
fatter than ever.
To the dungeon with him! shouted
the sultan. Give him nothing but fruit.
As for me, fruit just won't do.
A second doctor looked at the sultan.
Then he said, My =Sultan, you must
take nothing but hot tea.
The sultan tried for a week to take
nothing but hot tea. He had hot tea for
breakfast, hot tea for lunch, hot tea for
afternoon tea, and then hot tea for
dinner. Oh, he ate between meals now
and then, because he was so hungry.
A pile of rice with meat made a fine
snack. And he did love honey cakes.
At the end of the week, the second
doctor came to see the sultan. The
sultan was fatter than ever.


Everyone loved =Lyle the =Crocodile. The
=Primm family, with whom he lived, loved him
dearly, of course. The woman who ran the bakery
loved him. She always gave =Lyle cookies.
The man who sold ice cream loved him. He
always invited =Lyle to climb on his truck and
ring the bell. =Bird loved him. Love =Lyle! Love
=Lyle! he called. And the children loved him.
They always called for =Lyle to come out and
play. In return, =Lyle loved the whole, wide, wonderful
world. He didn't have one enemy in it or so he thought.
Then one day, quite mysteriously, a note
addressed to =Lyle was slid under the door of
the house on =East88thStreet. Mr =Primm read
the note to =Lyle.

=Skunk. Oh no, you don't mean it! That isn't
fair. Everyone knows =Tortoise can't win.
Even skunks can run faster than tortoises.

=HARE. No! No! No, =Skunk. It's not a race. It's a
contest! The idea is to see who can get the
most friends in a week. I want you to be my
friend.

=Skunk. I'll do anything to put that horrible =Fox
in his place. I don't see how people can stand
him. He smells so!

=HARE. I have to go now, =Skunk, but be sure to
be at =OldLog next =Saturday.

=HARE goes down the road to the beaver pond . 

=BEAVER working on his dam. Hello, young fellow, what can I do for
you?
If there was one thing =Jill wanted, it was
sunglasses. Big sunglasses! No one in =Jill's
class had sunglasses. Her sister didn't own a
pair and neither did her father or mother.
But =Jill wanted sunglasses, and she was
getting to be something of a pest. It began just
before =Christmas of last year.
If anyone wants to know what to give me,
=Jill said to her mother, I can tell them.
Her mother just laughed and told =Jill that she
had already bought her a =Christmas gift. =Jill
didn't get sunglasses for =Christmas. She got a
model spaceship set instead.
Spring came, and =Jill still wanted sunglasses.
Her birthday was May 5. She made up her
mind to come right out with it.

So their father took them to buy chewing gum,
but the shop was closed. It had a notice up:

GONE TO THE PARADE.

I want a parade, yelled =Jacob. Me, too! said =Mitzi.
Me, too! said =Mitzi's father. A lot of people were running, and
=Mitzi's father and =Mitzi and =Jacob ran too. Then the first
motorcycle went past, and behind it came two more. One was on the
left and one on the right side of the street. Behind them came two
more motorcycles, side by side. And behind them came a great, open
black car, with one =Secret =Service man walking on the left and
one walking on the right side. Everyone said, The  President!
=ThePresident was waving to the people on the right and to the
people on the left. He had two aides, one sitting beside him and
one sitting in back of him. They all drove past.



To this day nobody knows where =Atu's
people came from.
One morning, long ago, they had come out of
the desert and had made the =African highlands
their hunting grounds.
They carried nothing but spears and bows
and arrows and a few simple tools. They did
not build huts to live in, and they did not till the
land to farm.
They called themselves =Bushmen.
The =Bushmen were always on the move,
following wild game. They lived in rocky caves
and hunted when they were hungry and
needed food.
Living in the highlands was dangerous. Wild
animals were never far away from the
=Bushmen. But at night in their caves they felt
safe,  safe from wild animals and rain and cold
and hot sun.
At night they could rest by the fire, close
their eyes, and sleep without being afraid.

Slowly he swam to the boat and pulled
himself on board. In one hand he carried his
handcuffs and chains. Someone handed him
a quilt, and he hugged it about himself and
went to the side to wait with the others.
You'd better pull him out, =Houdini said.
Soon =Boudini was being lifted gently on
board by the rope around his middle. His
hands and feet were still in chains. His lips
were blue from the cold. He was fighting to
get his breath.
When he was able to speak, he looked up
at =Houdini, who waited beside him, and
whispered,



Being a movie star was very exciting. Every
where =Shirley went, people waved and called to
her. They bought =ShirleyTemple dolls, =Shirley
=Temple coloring books, and =ShirleyTemple
cutouts. Girls all over the country wore =Shirley
=Temple clothes. They curled their hair in
=ShirleyTemple curls. And they sang =Shirley
=Temple songs. On the =GoodShipLollipop
was =Shirley's most popular song.
Many people who saw =Shirley in the movies
began to think of her as their own little girl.
=Shirley received letters from all over the world.
She received dolls, too. =Shirley received so
many dolls that her family had to build a special
house just for the dolls.



I will not wake them, he said to himself.
They are tired out from planting the
corn yesterday, and they know that I
must take the trail at dawn.
Down, down, down the trail he went,
into the valley, and then up, up, up again.
In the late afternoon, the mountainside
he was climbing grew steeper and steeper.
He stopped on the mountaintop and
looked down. Under his black hat, his
dark eyes were wide. His chest rose and
fell quickly under his dusty jacket. He
was looking into a deep, wide canyon
between this mountain and the mountain
ahead. Steep, sharp rocks faced each
mountain. Far down in the canyon between the mountains ran a river
that looked like a thread of blue yarn.

There is no hurry about today. I reach for my
balloon. The string lies on the chair, and I find
the balloon on the floor, small and soft and
limp. It does not float. It lies in my hand, tired
and sad.
I lie there and listen to the sound of slippers
on the kitchen floor.
I tap my good luck song against the wall over
and over, but I hear the rain and I know I will
not go to the park today.
Tomorrow will be a nice day. Tomorrow my
sister and I will go to the park to find =Ahram.
He will make my balloon as good as new.
I walk to the window and lean my head on it.
The rain taps its song to me against the glass,
and I tap back.



Everyone clapped. =Martha and =Victoria hopped slowly forward. Mrs.
=Coburn placed the ribbon with =MostOriginal on it in =Victoria's
cone. That night in bed =Martha said happily, It was fun. Wasn't
it, =Vicky? Yes, =Victoria said. We'll start earlier next year,
=Martha promised. =Victoria was happy that =Martha had changed
her mind about coming back next year. Then they both fell asleep.
&&000 HOLT RINHEHART WINSTON  (1986) 3RD GRADE   WIN9863R.ASC
NEVER GIVE UP (3-1) Level 11  by Bernard J. Weiss et al
SPECIAL HAPPENINGS (3-2) level 12 by Bernard J. Weiss et al
Source: SUNY Oneonta xerox scan edit by DPH   March 6, 1993

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 Oh, yes! But I am too little,  said =Fidelia.
Mrs =Reed went out of the room and came
back with the smallest violin case any of the
children had ever seen. As she opened the case
she said,  This is a quarter-size violin, boys and
girls. Let's see how it fits =Fidelia. 
It fit =Fidelia exactly right.
=Fidelia,  said Mrs =Reed,  the boy who used
this violin needs a larger size, so I am going to
leave it here for you to use. Miss =Toomey will
start you in the beginning string class. I will
come back in a few weeks to see how you are
doing. 
=Fidelia put the little violin under her chin.
She set the bow on the strings.  I'm ready, Miss
=Toomey,  she said.
 Beginning string class meets after lunch,
=Fidelia. You'll have to wait,  said Miss =Toomey.
=Alberto played his trombone and =Carmela
played her clarinet in the =All =City =Orchestra,
but =Fidelia didn't mind. She had a violin exactly
her size, and she was in the beginning string
class.
Everyone has to start somewhere.



 How would you like that, =Agnes?  =Jack asked.
 That's okay with me,  =Agnes said.
 Let's start an =Agnes =McWilliams =Aluminum
=Crutches =Fund and get her some,  said =Kevin.
 How do we get the money?  =Ruth asked.
 Easy,  =Jack said. But he wasn't really sure.
Just then =Lucky came tearing around the
corner, carrying a long stick. =Lucky was always
finding things. Once, a long time ago, she found
a new pocket knife. After that, she always
walked with her head down, so she wouldn't
miss anything on the ground. But now she was
running, not walking. She held her head high.
 What's up, =Lucky?  said =Jack.
 Who's got some gum?  =Lucky asked. =Lucky
was excited.  You know the sidewalk grating in
front of the toy store? I saw a quarter down
there!  she said.  With some gum on the end of
this stick, I could get it. Who has some gum? 
=Jack said,  I have a piece in my pocket. For
three cents, I'll let you use it. 
 Three cents!  =Lucky said.  For ten cents I
could get a whole pack! 



=Mary walked quietly to the first bed and looked
down at the sleeping soldier. The man looked very
weak.
 I've brought you some food,  =Mary whispered.
 So you've brought food,  the soldier said in a
weak voice.  That's a nice surprise. What's your
name? 
 =Mary,  she answered.
The soldier smiled and said,  Well, =Mary, I'm
=Tom, and I sure can use some food. 
=Mary gave him some fruit and nuts. He ate
quickly while =Mary watched. When =Tom had
finished he said,  That was better than the flour
and water cakes we've been living on.
 More snow I see,  =Tom said sadly, looking at
=Mary's coat.  Every night I dream that the snow
has melted, and the roads have been cleared. I
dream that wagons are pulling food through again.
And every day I look outside and see snow and
more snow. 



 Oh, thank you, =Magic =Mouse!  whispered
the =Old =Lady. She went up to =Alexander's room
and put the cake inside his mouth. As he
swallowed it, he smiled, thinking it was teatime.
The next morning it was as rainy as ever, but
=Alexander felt much better. After breakfast he
and the =Brindle =Cat played a game. The =Old
=Lady was watching the river and the wall
through her telescope. The town looked safe.
Every day it rained and rained and rained.
The =Old =Lady was running out of food. The
=Brindle =Cat was tired of playing games. Even
the =Magic =Mouse was tired of sitting around
and ate a hole in the yarn basket.
One day the =Old =Lady got out of bed with a
funny feeling. Something was different. It was
very quiet outside. Then she knew. The rain
had stopped.



=Pablo came hurrying out of the store to
the little stand on the sidewalk.
 Let me help you, =Mama! I hope you want
something very good for our dinner tonight.
I get very hungry working here,  =Pablo said.
 Yes, =Pablo,  =Mama said.  For tonight, 
something special!  She reached for the hot
red peppers.  =Mexicali =Soup! 
 That's great,  =Pablo said. Then he looked
thoughtful. But, =Mama,  
 Yes?  =Mama said, putting some peppers
in a bag.
 Well, =Mama, you use a lot of hot peppers
in your soup,  said =Pablo.
 Of course,  =Mama said, smiling.
 A lot,  =Pablo said again.  People here
don't do that. They don't cook or eat the
way we did in the mountains of the =West. 



The first thing she saw there was her father's
rowboat filled with water.  =Lydia tried to tip the
boat over. It would not move. She found an old can
in the boathouse.  =Lydia started to take out the
water. But the more she took out, the more water
came in. =Lydia threw the can down. She ran up the
beach to the greenhouse to tell her father.
Halfway there, =Lydia stopped. On the beach lay
a bird that was hurt. Its eyes were closed and one
wing was broken. Just as =Lydia started to pick it
up, the bird opened its eyes. The bird slapped
=Lydia's face with its good wing.
 You need a doctor!  yelled =Lydia.  And I know
just where to find one! 
She began to run. She ran fast. By the time she
reached Dr =Arnold's house, she was out of breath.
But Dr =Arnold was not home. Stuck to the door
was a note. It said: Back in =10 =Minutes. At =Race.



=Whiteface clowns look as if they were about
to cry. They wear torn clothes old shoes and
hats, and sad, sad faces.
Nothing that whiteface clowns do in their
act turns out right. A whiteface clown picks
up a chair, and the chair falls to pieces. A
spotli-ght shines on the floor. The whiteface
clown tries to sweep the light away, but it
keeps moving away.
August clowns are funny slapstick clowns.
August clowns wear pants that fall down,
noses that light up, and large shoes that they
trip over.
Acrobat clowns do their funny tricks on
tightropes or turn somersaults on the backs of
horses.



The backstage of a dark, empty theater is
a lonely place where only a bat would feel
at home. To a little bat named =Hattie, this
was home.
=Hattie had lived in the =Grand =Theater all
her life, so she had never seen a green tree
or a haunted house. She had never flown
in the bright moonlight the way other bats
do.
For =Hattie, the sky was the space high
above the stage. Every night she flew
about for hours at a time, sweeping in and
out of the rafters and between the stage
curtains.
Then, when she was tired, she landed on
a rope, folded her wings tightly against
her sides, and hung upside down by her
claws to sleep.



When the tribe was not hunting, =Atu's father
sat in front of his cave and worked the long hot
day, making the simple tools the people
needed.
Sometimes =Atu helped him. But most of the
time =Atu was off and away, playing in the bush
or forest.
In the whole wide world there was no place
for =Atu like the =African bush and the forest.
There was so much to do. He could take a
swim in the water hole, or he could climb trees.
He could hide in the grass and watch the wild
animals pass nearby on their way to water.
He could follow a giraffe for fun, or keep still
and listen as a hungry lion roared far away.



The =President and the two aides walked back
to the =President's car and got in. The first  
motorcycle made a =U turn. It was followed by the two
motorcycles on either side of the street. They
were followed by the two motorcycles side by
side. Then came the =President's car.
 Goodbye!  called the =President. He waved
as he drove by.
 Goodbye!  cried =Mitzi.
 Goodbye,  yelled =Jacob.
=Mitzi and =Jacob and their father waved to the
=President. They waved to the two aides and to
the right and the left =Secret =Service men. They
waved to the two motorcycles side by side. They
waved to the motorcycle on the right side of the
street and to the one on the left. And they waved
to the last motorcycle riding by itself. When it
had passed, =Jacob said,  All gone. 



A nature detective can find many clues on a
sandy beach.
When you walk on the beach in the morning,
look for the sea-gull tracks. They can tell you which
way the wind was blowing when the sea gulls were
there.
Like airplanes, sea gulls take off into the wind.
First the gulls must run along the sand to get up
speed for a take-off. As they run, their toes dig
deeper into the sand.

Here all the sea gull toe tracks are in a line  
toward the west. So you know that the wind came
from the west.



All day in school =Ann =Marie felt bad. When
three o'clock came, it was raining hard. She
walked through the water on the way home
and got her shoes wet. All the other kids had
umbrellas. =Ann =Marie felt so bad she didn't
even care if she got wet.
After supper, =Ann =Marie helped in the  
kitchen. Then she went to bed early. She didn't look
in the secret box. She didn't do her homework.
She just closed her eyes and tried to forget what
she had done.
The next morning she went to school early.
She was the first one there. She sat down at her
desk and took the ring and the red and blue
pencil out of her bag. Slowly she put the ring
in =Vanessa's desk and the pencil on Mr  
=Freeman's. Soon the other kids came in.
=Ann =Marie went to sharpen her pencil. As
she passed =Luis's desk, she saw a new roll of
play money. She stopped and looked at it.  I
wonder if it would fit in the secret box,  she
thought.