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  • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 

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    Each evening Ali Baba went out to gather twigs and branches for his wife so that she had enough firewood to cook the stew for dinner. One day, Ali Baba went further than usual to hunt for fallen branches beneath the trees that grew beside the rocky cliffs near the high hills. Suddenly, he heard…

  • Baba Yaga the Russian Witch

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    Once upon a time an old man lived in a hut with his little girl, Natasha. So happy they were!  At tea time, they would play peek-a-boo behind the samovar (a very tall teapot used in Russia).  They would drink tea with honey bread and strawberry jam. Everything was fine! The only sad times were…

  • Exponents

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    Skills needed: Multiplication Using exponents is just a short way of saying that you want to multiply something by itself a number of times. Let’s say for example that you want to do the following: 4 x 4 x 4 This could be written with exponents and would look like this: 43 They both equal…

  •  Yuuki and the Tsunami 

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    FOR AS LONG as people can remember, the shores of Japan have been swept from time to time by enormous tsunamis. These awful sudden risings of the sea are caused by earthquakes or by underwater volcanic action. The story of the boy Yuuki is the story of such a calamity. Yuuki lived with his family…

  • Two Brothers Story

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    ONCE THERE WERE two brothers who inherited their father’s land. The two brothers divided the land in half and each one farmed his own section. Over time, the older brother married and had six children, while the younger brother never married. One night, the younger brother lay awake. “It’s not fair that each of us…

  • Wise Girl Becomes Head of the Household

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    In China there once lived a father, his four sons, and three daughters-in-law.  His three older sons had married within a few months of each other and all with young women from the same village.  Recently these three new daughters-in-law had been brought into the house. Their new father-in-law’s wife had died a few years…

  • The Tsars Daughter

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    ONCE in western Siberia there lived a great Tsar. While he had many subjects and large herds, he had but one daughter and her name was Altyn-Aryg. When the Tsar grew old, he said to his wife, a woman as old as he, “We have no sons and my strength is leaving me. A daughter…

  • The Story of the Aged Mother

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    Long, long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and his aged, widowed mother. They owned a bit of land which supplied them with food, and they were humble, peaceful, and happy. The province where they lived was called “Shining.”  Shining was governed by a terrible leader.  He was a warrior…

  • The Poor Farmer’s Wish

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    There was once a poor farmer who found it a great struggle to get ahead in the world. Though he worked very hard and lived carefully, it was impossible for him to save money year after year. After an entire lifetime of labor he was no better off, it seemed, than he had been on…

  • Man, the Hawk and the Dove

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    LONG AGO IN NIGERIA, there was a man who had been blind and lame all his life. One evening, as he was sitting in front of his house, he couldn’t help but feel sorry for himself. After all, he couldn’t walk or see. All of a sudden, a dove flew into his robe. “Save me,”…