Maribeth Boelts
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Ruben feels like he is the only kid without a bike. His friend Sergio reminds him that his birthday is coming, but Ruben knows that the kinds of birthday gifts he and Sergio receive are not the same. After all, when Ruben's mom sends him to Sonny's corner store for groceries, sometimes she doesn't have enough money for everything on the list. So when Ruben sees a dollar bill fall out of someone's purse, he picks it up and puts it in his pocket. But...
2) Those shoes
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Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.
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Evalina has trouble tending her sheep, so she bakes a gingerbread pup to help her. But once the pup comes out of the oven, it races around town causing trouble. When the gingerbread pup gets a ride across the river from a shaggy stray dog, Evalina comes up with a solution for both of her problems.
12) Summer's end
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With the summer almost gone, a girl thinks sadly that her fun is over, but then she recalls some interesting things about school.
15) The PS brothers
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Sixth-graders Russell and Shawn, poor and picked on, work together scooping dog droppings to earn money for a Rottweiler puppy to protect them from bullies, but when they learn the puppies' owner is running an illegal dog-fighting ring, they are torn about how to respond.