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Inventor Garrett Morgan: Champion of Safety!

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Malik came home from school with heaps of homework to do, but he knew the first task he should work on was his assignment for Black History Month. He had to choose and research an African American inventor to write an essay about but had no idea where to start. Writing reports wasn't Malik's favorite thing to do. Still, he thought if he started right away and found someone unique and exciting to learn about, it might help him write a better report.

Las Dos Ranas

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Había una vez una rana que siempre estaba muy feliz, por fortuna, su vivienda estaba muy cerca del mar. ¿Acaso había un lugar mejor donde vivir? Una hermosa mañana de primavera, como todos los días, la rana se despertó y se acercó a la orilla para disfrutar de lo bello y lindas que se miraban las olas del mar.

The Little Red Hen

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A Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time walking about the barnyard In her picketty-pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere for worms. She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they were absolutely necessary to the health of her children. As often as she found a worm she would Call “Chuck-chuck-chuck!” to her chickies. When they were gathered about her, she would distribute choice morsels of her tid-bit.

Buster and the Pickles

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Buster and the Pickles Buster was always getting into trouble. Sometimes, he had good ideas that went badly. Sometimes he had bad ideas that went well. And sometimes, well, sometimes it was a little bit of both. One day, when Buster was about two years old, he was at the ice cream shop down the street with his parents when he noticed a big jar full of pickles on the countertop. The sign next to it said, “Pickles, one dollar” – he wasn’t worried about that. He couldn’t read it anyway.