Edison's first invention was the

electric vote counter. Although

it worked well, few people wanted to

buy it, so the invention was considered a

failure. After that, Edison decided he would

only invent things that he was sure people

would want.

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Kari sat by herself at lunch, again.

As she ate her sandwich, she

watched the girls at a nearby table

talking and laughing. For the millionth time

she thought about her friends back in Topeka

and wished her family had not moved.

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"You're such a freak." Bryon

said with a sneer. "Where do you

even buy clothes like that?"

Emmy knew she shouldn't do it, but she just

couldn't take Bryon's teasing anymore. She

pointed her finger at Bryon. "Transforma!"

she said, and turned him into a goat.

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"Whoever took the ring must

have done it between 1:14 and 1:33.

That rules out Mr. Carson, Mrs.

Hughes, and Mrs. Patmore."

Mr. Crawly could not believe what he was

hearing. "That only leaves...Mr. Bates, but

surely it couldn't be him!"

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It was so very cold. John's jacket

was thread-bare and his boots were

hardly holding together. Already

37 soldiers had died and more were getting

sick every day. He hoped General

Washington was right about supplies getting

to the camp soon.

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A kinkajou is a small mammal that

lives in the rainforests of South

America. Kinkajous have long,

slender bodies, and long tails that they can

wrap around branches like a monkey. They

spend almost all of their time in the trees.

Kinkajous eat mostly fruit and flower nectar.

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Once upon a time there was a

beautiful princess. She had long

dark hair, fair skin, and lips as red

as roses. The princess lived in the castle with

her father, the king, and her evil stepmother,

the queen.

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Detective McCready looked carefully

around the room. Nothing seemed

out of the ordinary. Then he noticed

the bookcase in the corner. There was a book

missing from the third shelf. Could that be a

clue?

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appear?

Savannah closed her eyes and

drank the blue liquid as quickly as

she could. At first nothing happened.

But then she slowly started shrinking. Soon

she was too small for her clothes. By the time

the shrinking stopped, she was no taller than

a cereal box.

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When Helen was not quite two

years old, she got very ill. Although

she recovered, the illness left her

both deaf and blind. Although she was a

bright girl, Helen got frustrated because she

could not communicate with other people.

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I set the date for April 1, 2007.

It had to work, it just had to. If I

could just go back and stop my

younger self from playing that stupid April

Fool's Day prank, everything would be

different. I pushed the button. The time

machine began to spin - faster and faster!

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Jason's eyes were glued to the

window as the plane slowly

descended. In a few minutes, the

plane would land, and Jason would be in

another country. He hoped his host family

would be nice and that he had learned

enough French.

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You must make sure that you use

dry wood to start your fire. Begin

by placing a ball of newspaper in

the center of your fire pit. Then surround the

paper with small sticks, which are called

kindling. When you are ready to light your fire,

ask an adult to help.

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Then the frog said to the monkey,

"Why do you spend all your time

swinging around in trees when you

could be catching flies with me?"

The monkey replied, "I have no use for

flies, for I am a monkey, not a frog."

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appear?