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Learning how to be a good sport can be hard for little monsters. When Elmo takes a game of Hot Potato too seriously, he hurts Abby's feelings. Can Leela help Elmo learn not to be a sore loser and that winning isn't everything? Then, Abby uses magic to make Elmo an amazing basketball player. He really has game. But Elmo realizes he wants to learn to play on his own and feel proud.

The children on a newly formed soccer team love their coach, Miss Malarky, who doesn't know much about the game except how to make it fun, but the school principal and parents have other ideas.

"You Can Read, Pout-Pout Fish! is a Level 1 Beginning Reader about learning to read featuring the star of Deborah Diesen's New York Times bestselling Pout-Pout Fish series--with illustrations by Dan Hanna. Pout-Pout Fish is learning to read! With his teacher’s help, he meets some letters, some words, and some books. Reading is fun―that is, until he meets a really big word... Turn little pouts into big smiles with this new series perfect for...

After Julia and her dog Huxley enter a very unusal dog show they quickly realize the challenges of competing against fire-breathing, levitating, extraterrestrial pets, but good-natured Huxley gives it his all.

Feeling inept in the team sports scheduled for his school's Gymboree, Clyde the rabbit develops his own event, a freestyle tumbling routine with a dazzling move called the "twirly burly."

Spurred on by the promise of a mystery prize, Harry and Doug are determined to win the most points on Field Day, but Harry's sneaky tactics annoy their competition, making the two boys targets for revenge.

Third grader Molly is jealous of Florence's superior ice skating ability but makes an interesting discovery about teamwork when she joins the hockey team.

"You can help the team from anywhere! The Mustangs are on a roll and it has a lot to do with Little Rhino's great play. Until he goes down with an injury that forces him to sit out. That means no hitting home runs, no diving for ground balls-- no baseball games until he's better. But Rhino refuses to let getting hurt keep him away from the action. There are a lot of ways to be a good teammate and he will do them all if it helps his friends continue...

Eight-year-old expert soccer player Aven Green learns to share the spotlight and be a good team player when her friend Sujata joins the team. Aven Green, the remarkable heroine of Dusti Bowling’s Life of a Cactus series, marches to her own beat in this hilarious, upbeat, and unforgettable chapter book. Third-grader Aven Green is an expert soccer player. She even has her own top secret moves! But when her friend Sujata joins the team, Aven has...