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As the Pee Wee Scouts prepare for Easter they also visit the firehouse during Fire Prevention week, and after Sonny's mother meets and starts dating the fire chief, Molly helps Sonny come to terms with his mother's new boyfriend.

In this dual biography, McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his Wild West show, Buffalo Bill Cody helped invent the image of the West that still exists today--cowboys and Indians, rodeo, rough rides, sheriffs and outlaws, trick shooting, Stetsons, and buck-skin. His most celebrated prote�ge�e, the short, slight Annie Oakley--born Phoebe Ann Moses in Ohio--spent sixteen...

Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...

'Raccoon brothers Bingo and J'miah are the newest recruits of the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts. The opportunity to serve the Sugar Man, the massive creature who delights in delicious sugar cane and magnanimously rules over the swamp, is an honor, and also a big responsibility, since the rest of the swamp critters rely heavily on the intel of these hardworking Scouts. Now it's up to the Scouts to save the swamp from attack by not only hogs, but...

Evil Weasel McGreed devises a flying secret weapon to silence the admirable Bear Scouts.

Brother Bear is convinced to stop smoking with the help of the Bear Scouts and Gramps.

First-grader Molly, a Pee Wee Scout, wants to earn the cookie badge and attend her troop's skating party but finds that neither baking or skating comes easily for her. Includes recipes for cookies, fudge, and cupcakes.

Sylvia Jean disguises herself in order to assist a neighbor who does not want her enthusiastic help, but she still might be the only one in her Pig Scout Troop who will not earn a Good Deed Badge.

Cordelia and her troop of dino-scouts enjoy a camping trip in the great outdoors.

When the Widow Bearkin passes away, she leaves her property on Spook Hill to the Bear Scouts, on the condition that they can spend one night in the house to prove it isn't haunted.