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Helen and her father are collecting the rent from their family's rental properties so they will have money for the month. As Helen and her father visit each apartment, she learns how the Depression is affecting other families. When the pair meets the Katz family, Helen learns how generosity and kindness is always the right choice at the end of the day.

Grace and Alice are helping their family make maple syrup! After making mistakes all day, Grace wants to prove she is responsible enough to help mix the syrup all night. Will Grace be able to help make the syrup and get to have the first taste? After all, the first taste is always the best taste!

Click, Jane, and CeCe are crafting toy sailboats! Once the paint dries, they get some exercise and learn about breathing on their way to race their sailboats in the creek. Jane exercises regularly, so breathing is much easier for her! Once the race is underway, who will win?

Who were Pocahontas and the Powhatan Indians? They were the Native Americans living in Virginia who met the English settlers when they arrived in 1607. Learn about their culture and how they celebrated their harvest every year!

Paloma finds a stray dog outside her public library. After taking him home, she realizes he has as many fears as she does. Together, they face their fears—Chester’s fear of being alone and Paloma’s fear of losing her military parents.

A family of pixies is looking for a place for their children to sleep, but nowhere on the farm is good enough. Will they find somewhere in time to return the farmers horse and cart for planting season? Listen along with this Cornish folktale and see just where a pixie littling can get some sleep.

Click and Jane are heading out for a bike ride. CeCe wants to join, but she needs to take a nap. When CeCe lays down for her nap, Click and Jane try everything to get her to sleep. Click and Jane soon find out that putting a baby to sleep is hard work!

Trina wants to play sports like the rest of her family, but she doesn’t know which one to try! Should she be a runner, a gymnast, or a baseball player like her siblings? Or should she find something else? With the help of her family, Trina learns that she doesn't have to pick just one!

Candace and Dejario are researchers on the Courage Space Station. Dejario believers he is a “Penguin Whisperer” but Candace just wishes he would get back to work instead of playing with the penguins all day. But when Candace and Dejario's space station is struck by a meteor, they must use Dejario’s knowledge of penguins in order to survive the falling temperature. Using the Emperor Penguins' warming tactics—huddling and collodial jamming—Candace and Dejario are able to keep warm with the help of the penguins until help arrives!

Marissa’s family is moving from their house near the ocean to a farm in the Utah desert. She will miss many things about the ocean. One morning, Marissa wakes up to the sound of sea gulls. Sea gulls don’t live in the desert, do they?

Did you know that dogs have been helping humans for thousands of years? They have done a lot of different jobs to help us, even today! Dogs are more than just pets. They help police officers, people with disabilities, farmers, and even sick people. Have you ever met a dog that does one of these jobs?

One day while playing outside, Click and Jane are watching the birds fly overhead. Click wishes he could fly, too! The gang decides to build an airplane so they can fly. After it is constructed, they each choose a role to play. Finally, they can fly! But there is one problem—Click ate all the snacks! Join Click and Jane as they put their imaginations to work so they can soar through the sky!

Mary’s class is putting on a production of a play called Her Ladyship Was Irish. Mary is excited to be the stage manager, but she's nervous about how the other students' behavior will affect the show. As they put the show together, Mary learns about judging others and working as a team.

All alone at the family trading post, Liza Jean must deal with three smelly bandits who are up to no good. She must outwit them as they steal from the family store and try to find their gold. Will the No-Good, No-Count, Stinky-Breath Gang get what they came for?

Kids have always had amazing ideas, like how to keep your ears warm on a cold winter day or an icy treat to enjoy on a hot summer day. Learn about four young inventors and their inventions that helped to change people's lives.

In this poem, a bee, a flower, a butterfly, and a snail all ask, “Where’s the rain?” Finally, a girl brings the rain to them with her watering pail.

In this comic, Click and Jane try to move a new chair into the clubhouse, but the legs keep getting stuck in the dirt. Clementine and Cloo have a few ideas that could help. Will they be able to move the chair?

This little ballerina loves to dance in her tutu, especially when her daddy joins her! Have you ever tried to dance ballet?

Merri loves her sheep. She takes care of them every day. When Merri’s mother says that she will start kindergarten soon, Merri worries about who will care for her sheep while she is gone. Will Merri be brave on her first day of school?

A young girl named Annushka is helping her Mommika Grandma make plum dumplings when she finds an incomplete set of Hungarian nesting dolls. The set of three dolls were a gift to Annushka’s mother from her great-grandmother. Where could the other two dolls be?