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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Seeds of Hope	Kristiana Gregory	Susanna Fairchild and her family are on board a ship sailing from New York to the West, where they plan to start a new life in Oregon. But tragedy strikes when Susanna's mother is lost to the sea. He…	OL121804W
Cowboy José	Susan Middleton Elya	A poor cowboy enters a rodeo to win a date from a pretty señorita, but afterwards wonders if he should spend his winnings on the girl, who is only interested in the money, or on his trusty horse, wh…	OL15057681W
The land of the hungry armadillos	David, Lawrence.	Greedy Gus not only refuses to share with his little sister but also trades her to a monster which forces her to bake cupcakes for hungry armadillos.	OL15212848W
The case of the dead winner	Ralph M. McInerny	As her health declines, elderly Mrs. Mortimer's greedy family becomes increasingly interested in her estate, raising the suspicions of Father Dowling and a teenage trio.	OL15268394W
The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies	Stan Berenstain	When a cub's behavior takes a turn for the worst, it's hard for parents to know what to do first. ***Gran and Gramps come up with a plan to help selfish Brother and Sister Bear get rid of a ba…	OL15829412W
The dream merchant	Isabel Hoving	Having been hired by a mysterious corporation called Gippart, twelve-year-old Josh--along with two friends and the ghost of his dead twin sister--finds himself trapped in "umaya," a place between dre…	OL15835890W
Big Deal At Whistle Stop	Maurice L. Gimbel	A lighthearted western novel about an Arizona newspaper editor who is secretly a train robber. He learns that he's the inheritor of the train line he's been robbing -------provided he killls or capt…	OL15847012W
Cats get famous	Ron Barrett	Disguised as a trash bag, greedy cat-hater Lekvar Smirk kidnaps a trio of singing cats, Hal, Dora, and Geneva, and takes them to try out for the television show, Animal Idol.	OL17929525W
Catch and release	Lawrence Block	Block's short stories are intelligent and respectful of the reader yet often take an unexpected turn. He plays fair. If you reread the story, you'll find that he left you little clues about the final…	OL24253419W
The boy who spoke colors	David Gifaldi	When a greedy king kidnaps Felix, a boy who can only speak in colors, and tries to exploit that gift, the king encompasses his own doom.	OL2667963W
The goose and the golden egg	Aesop	Aesop and his troupe teach their audience to appreciate what they have. In retelling the fable of a farmer who finds a golden egg in his goose's nest, Aesop learns that when he is greedy, he ends up …	OL29230506W
When No One Was Looking	Rosemary Wells	A tragic chain of events threatens a 14-year-old girl's promising tennis career	OL32814W
Four fat rats	Cathy Bellows	Four fat sassy rats leave home and eat a wide swathe through the world, alienating everybody on the way.	OL4470704W
Ed & Fred Flea	Pamela Duncan Edwards,Henry Cole	As his brother prepares to leave the dog they share, Fred the greedy flea pretends to have the flu in order to stay behind and have the whole dog, unaware of the fate that awaits him.	OL451633W
Death on the Ice	Cassie Brown,Harold Andrew Horwood	*Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out 'to the ice' to hunt seals in the hope of a few pennies in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John's.* The ye…	OL5171212W
Dune Bugg	Stephen Cosgrove	The Buggs of Buggville run their cars on swamp water and blam-blam berries, until Prince Ima Greedibugg raises the price of the berries so high that no one can afford them.	OL567322W
Grooves	Kevin Brockmeier	After a seventh-grader discovers that the grooves in his Thigpen-brand blue jeans are encoded with a cry for help, he sets out to save the factory workers from greedy entrepreneur Howard Thigpen.	OL5718598W
The boy who wouldn't share	Mike Reiss	Edward, unwilling to share his toys with his sister, has a change of heart when she has something he wants.	OL5951784W
The story of the Jack O'Lantern	Katherine Brown Tegen	On Halloween night, Jack--a stingy and mean man--makes a deal with the devil for a free dinner, only to regret his choice many years later when the devil comes to collect.	OL5955267W
The Great White Man-Eating Shark	Margaret Mahy	Greedy to have the cove where he swims all to himself, Norvin, who looks a bit like a shark, pretends to be one, scaring off the other swimmers and leaving him in happy aquatic solitude--until he is …	OL86194W