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Ted, the explorer with a large yellow hat, is good friends with Bloomsberry. Bloomsberry runs a natural history museum. His greedy son, Bloomsberry Junior, wants to tear down his dad's museum and put a parking garage in its place, but the elder Bloomsberry is convinced that a spectacular new exhibit could save the museum from the wrecking ball. Ted heads to Africa on an expedition to find some special artifacts that will keep his friend in business. While he is in Africa, he befriends a playful monkey he calls George. While George is friendly, he has a taste for mischief and seems to always get Ted in trouble. Ted thinks he has seen the last of George when his ship heads back to America, but discovers that George managed to hide aboard the boat before it sailed. Ted and his good friend Maggie, a schoolteacher who's sweet on him, struggle to find of a way to save Bloomsberry's museum.

They are the men and women who populate our dreams, excite our imaginations, shock us, inspire us, and entertain us. Join hosts Peter Graves and Jack Perkins as Biography profiles the most important people of our century and centuries past. Rare footage, new research and exclusive interveiws go beyond the myths to bring their stories to life.

"Chavo and his friends can't wait to see their favorite soccer team play at the stadium. But when they arrive at the match, they learn that their seats are all the way in the last row! Can Chavo find a way to get closer to the action?,"--back cover.

Little Bear enjoys the summer he spends with Lucy, but when summer is over, the friends must part.

Seventh-grader Zoe, who comes from a big family where she's never had anything all to herself, desperately wants CJ for a best friend, but when CJ reveals that she likes the boy Zoe likes, she must make a choice.

Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.

Tommy has always enjoyed his friendship with Zoe, but when his friends tease him about it, he wonders whether he wants to be more than friends with her.