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THE ADVENTURES OF JIX
(ee & some ea words – long e sound) Jix’s pal Pog is free on the weekend, so they agree to meet by the creek to play hide-and-seek. Jix greets Pog with a belly bump. Jix is a jeek, and that is what they do. Then Jix hides in the weeds between the trees and...
THE LION WITH NO NAME
Once upon a time there was a lion with no name—he didn’t have one yet because he was brand-new. He still had tags on him when Collin Coats ripped off the birthday wrapping paper and said crabbily, “A stuffed lion? Doesn’t Grandma know I’m ten years old...
TIRED OF TRYING
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” read the needlepoint proverb over Katy’s bookshelf—a gift her great-aunt Ada had made her. It was the first thing she saw every morning and the last thing she saw before she closed her eyes…
THE ODDEST EGG EVER
I’d lost my left mitten;
my fingers were cold.
A snowstorm was coming,
we all had been told.
I went up the hill;
I went at a trot.
BURNWALD THE BOLD
Once upon a time there lived a very old dragon. He was so old that his wings were too stiff to fly. And when it came to breathing fire, all he could manage was a puff of smoke…so he was considered pretty much a has-been by the other dragons that lived on Draco Isle....