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This book is based on a true story. Kaitlyn was never a typical little girl. She thinks about all that she has learned since she was three years old. From her pet cat, Mel, she learned responsibility and unconditional love. From her ballet teachers and classes, she learned about teamwork, perseverance, and discipline. But most of all, she loves her parents for all their love and support.

Why are there bullies and what can you do about them? This audiobook is written for children, parents, counselors, and teachers to review or open discussions about bullying and what to do about it.

We can pretend and have fun listening to stories that are not true. Give your answers to the questions before you proceed. You answer can be different or the same. If two or more persons are listening to this book, you can take turns listening to the story, and then stop and have the others use their imagination and guess by saying what they think will happen next.

At one time or another, we all tell lies (white lies versus hurtful lies) for different reasons. This colorful story uses a group of students and adults to discuss why children tell lies and what lessons they can learn from lying?

The Great Depression took place during the 1930s in the United States. There was huge unemployment, banking failures, declines in factory production, and increases in poverty and homelessness.

Awww, come on now, do you actually believe those stories that they tell about me? Let me, Rapunzel, tell you the true story. What? Don’t you like my hair short? It all started when I was a baby. Aren’t I cute. Except that I’m bald!

Esau was born before Jacob. Jacob came out holding onto his older brother's heel. It seemed like Jacob was trying to pull Esau back into the womb so that he could be first born. What can you learn from this Bible story?

Enjoy two fables to find the meanings as well as recipes to make pizzas and stone soup without the stone.

My Pet Rattlesnake is an interactive story between storyteller and children. Usually, whatever the children say, the storyteller says something different.

A thinker puzzle can be easy or hard depending on your mindset. Try to guess or discuss with other people to see what they say as an answer before you listen further. It is okay to have different answers than the ones in this audiobook. These puzzles can have more than one answer.

A day without learning and laughter is a day wasted. Nobody understands every joke. You will get it when you are older or you can ask someone to explain it.

I sit down and look at my computer screen. Oh! No! A virus alert! My fingers touch the dusty screen. I feel like I’m falling into a pit. I shrink smaller and fly into my computer. I see a computer chip. I’m smaller than an ant. I’ve changed and don’t even look like the real me. I burst into a computer chip.

Three great Black Americans are Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, and George Washington Carver. Their contribution to Black History was enormous.

A retelling of an Aesop fable to guess the moral. "A woman and her husband lived at the top of Gooseberry Hill. (Have you ever tasted gooseberries?) They went to their goose pen and were greatly surprised! It was the surprise of all surprises, or was it? What do you think they saw?

Twice upon a time long ago, Kathryn and Jordan are on a walk with their bows and arrows. Who is that up ahead?

I’m reading a book about Robin Hood. Oh, how, I wish I could go back in time to the Sherwood Forest in England. Suddenly, I’m spinning around and around. Where am I going? Why am I wearing this forest green outfit? Why do I hold a bow and arrow?

My name is Orion. I am walking by a river. I’m thinking that I ought to be an otter. Suddenly, lightning flashes. After the lightning storm stops. A gray otter sticks his head out of the water and winks at me. He whistles and says, “You ‘otter’ be an otter!” Suddenly, I’m in the river. I’ve turned into a brown otter. Wow!

In the royal palace is Odin. He says, “As All-Father, I challenge you other gods to a contest to prove once and for all who is the best!”

The universe and our world are full of magical glories. Our blue marble earth is a miracle. It is located just the right distance from the sun for life to exist. This is called the “Goldilocks Effect”. We’re not too hot, not too cold.

Choco is a dog who is part chihuahua, part toy poodle, and part gremlin. At least he thinks he’s a good gremlin. Looking through a hole in the fence, Choco wonders if the grass is greener on the other side. He decides to wander. Where will he go?