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You're invited to a glorious Fourth of July picnic where you'll learn all about sharing, the good things along with the bad. Pie is for sharing. It starts off round, and you can slice it into as many pieces as you want. What else can be shared? A ball, of course. A book? A tree? What about time? You're invited to a glorious Fourth of July picnic, where you'll learn all about sharing, the good things along with the bad, courtesy of Stephanie Parsley...

Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the theft of a great deal of money from the belly of a nearly life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex model that their friend, Jud Wheat, is using to raise money for a dinosaur museum.

Kylie Jean Carter plans to sing in the annual Fourth of July Jubilee talent show.

A giant spider and several other odd creatures from the earlier books in the Hamlet Chronicles return as the small Vermont town celebrates a grammar school graduation, Miss Earth's wedding, and the Fourth of July.

In rhyming text based on "The Night Before Christmas," a family, decked in red, white, and blue, heads to the Fourth of July parade, hosts a backyard BBQ with neighbors, dodges an afternoon thundershower, and watches the fireworks show.

Fighting over a Fourth of July contest for the best decorated mailbox threatens to tear apart the Cul-de-sac Kids.