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Rapscallion Jones

Ne’er-Do-Well

The writer’s life in Rapscallion Jones by James Marshall.

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Filed Under:  Animals   Jobs   Language   Misfits & Renegades   Role Models  

Irving and Muktuk: Two Bad Bears Bad Bears and a Bunny: An Irving and Muktuk Story

By Stealth and Subterfuge

We knew him when: a master of mischief in Two Bad Bears.

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Filed Under:  Crime & Punishment   Executive Decisions of Our Time   Misfits & Renegades   Role Models  

McFig and McFly: A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (with a Happy Ending) The Boy Who Ate Around Hubert the Pudge: A Vegetarian Tale

Built to Spill

Bad eggs and tall orders in McFig and McFly, A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (with a Happy Ending).

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Filed Under:  Death   Folklore   Friends & Neighbors   Role Models  

The Flying Lesson of Gerald Pelican Oscar Otter Red Fox and His Canoe

Fears of a Feather

The Flying Lesson of Gerald Pelican by Nathaniel Benchley.

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Filed Under:  Adventure   Animals   Growing   Parents   Role Models   Scary  

Are You Going to Be Good? The Strange Appearance of Howard Cranebill Ugly Fish Egg Drop Igor, the Bird Who Couldn’t Sing McFig and McFly: A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (with a Happy Ending) The Nine Lives of Rotten Ralph Giant Meatball

All Shook Up

Are You Going to Be Good? (probably not, no) by Cari Best and G. Brian Karas.

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Filed Under:  Misfits & Renegades   Role Models  

Weird Parents

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane

It’s Weird Parents by Audrey Wood.

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Filed Under:  Misfits & Renegades   Parents   Role Models  

Me… Jane

Pretty in Beige

Princess diaries, and the portrait of a primatologist as a young girl.

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Filed Under:  Adventure   Executive Decisions of Our Time   Role Models   Travel  

Author: A True Story

The Fizzle Box

Heartbreak and highlights from the literary life in Helen Lester’s Author: A True Story.

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Filed Under:  Jobs   Misfits & Renegades   Role Models  

Miss Rumphius

These Three Things

Miss Rumphius and the art of almost happiness.

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Filed Under:  Role Models   Travel   We Are Old  

Mrs. Biddlebox

Flights of Cranky

The upside of anger in Mrs. Biddlebox.

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Filed Under:  Food   Misfits & Renegades   Role Models   Scary  

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