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Mrs. Marigold's Menagerie
Mrs. Marigold’s Menagerie is a short story about a lady whose wild garden and countless animals annoy her neighbours. The book also discusses text connections, planning a short story, and features of a short story. A variety of sentence...
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Mudslide
Mud Slide is a realistic story about a boy who must overcome his fear of the mud slide in order to join in the fun. The book concludes with two examples of headlines, one in the newspaper and one on the internet. The story is told in dialogue...
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Mum at the Fair
Mum at the Fair is a humorous and realistic fiction story about a mum and her kids going to the fair. Mum went on the big wheel and started to feel sick as it went around. When she got off, she looked green, and her kids said it is time to go home. The...
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Mum at the Football
Mum at the Football is a humorous fiction story about a son and his Mum going to a football game. Mum was very enthusiastic about her favourite team winning and started to embarrass her son. When her team was struggling, she jumped onto the field to show...
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Mum at the Market
Mum at the Market is a humorous, realistic story about a boy who goes to the market with his Mum. Mum buys many strange things, and on their way home, they pick up a watermelon. The watermelon is so large that they roll it as they are walking home but it...
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Mum's Bag
Mum’s Bag is a humorous, realistic fiction about a boy who is travelling to at Hat Show with his Mum and her giant luggage full of hats. They encounter issues with the size of the luggage at home, at the airport, and as they are leaving the airport...
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Mum's Hat
Mum’s Hat is a humorous, fictional text about a mom who goes to the market with her child for the purpose of finding a new hat. Without realizing it, Mom ends up picking up a lampshade off of a lamp and uses that as a hat. Illustrations fully...
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Mum's Shoes
Mum’s Shoes is a humorous and realistic fiction story about a son and his Mum going shopping for some new shoes. Mum bought a pair of high heels, but her son was not sure about them. Mum struggled to walk in the shoes out the mall and one...
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My Cheese
My Cheese is a humorous animal fantasy about three mice who, while fighting over cheese, lose it as it rolls off into a smaller mouse’s house that they cannot enter. Simple dialogue is used. The story shows that fighting and not sharing is never...
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My Donkey Can Read
My Donkey Can Read is a humorous story about a donkey with a voracious appetite and the smarts and sweet good looks to convince the chickens, cows, pigs, and passersby to give him treats. The story is told in dialogue and simple narrative. Simple and...
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My Garden
My Garden is a fictional story about animals who come together to a garden with signs that say that the garden is theirs. Simple dialogue is used. Illustrations add meaning to the text. The story concludes with a two-page spread illustrating each animal...
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My Life with Birds
My Life with Birds is an autobiography detailing the life of Henrietta Higgins; an avid bird lover. The book also discusses features of an autobiography. The text unfolds in first - person with illustrations that support and enhance the text. My Life...