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5) Not perfect
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Dot grows increasingly frustrated that she is not perfect at anything.
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A little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make the most magnificent thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. But making the most magnificent thing turns out to be harder than she thinks. All of her efforts are "wrong," so she has a tantrum and talks about quitting. Fortunately, her assistant leads her to look at her work anew.
10) I'm frustrated
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A young boy discusses his feelings of frustration with his mother who suggests ways for him to understand and deal with such emotions.
11) Skating showdown
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Thirteen-year-old Janelle loves figure skating, but when she enters a competition she is frustrated because she is not as good at the jumps as another girl at the rink and she starts to wonder if she should just quit--until her coach comes up with an idea.
12) Ode to a bad day
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Told in rhyming text, a little girl is having a day where absolutely nothing goes right, a day filled with frustration and annoyances, but even bad days end eventually.
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Andrea is looking forward to another winning volleyball season with her school team, but the new coach is putting them through a lot of basic drills, and Andrea is frustrated because she is not playing the position she is used to, and she does not understand why.
15) Cosmic
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Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This isprimarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around.
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"Lulu the lion cub hasn't learned how to roar yet -- this makes her feel really frustrated and angry. With the help of Mindy the chimp, Ernie the elephant, George the giraffe and her other friends, Lulu learns how to deal with her anger and she finally finds that roar... just when danger threatens them all!"--Back cover.
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Nell makes two wishes on her birthday, but the next day they show little sign of coming true. Everyone in her household is busy and wants her out from underfoot and no one is willing to help her find her lost cat. In the end she finds more than a cat and she makes her own wishes come true with the help of a row of tall, bright, smiling sunflowers.
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Sixth-grader Drew Howard is frustrated and planning to quit the team, because now that he is playing organized football he can not seem to throw a good pass--but a new boy, Tyler Wade, forces him to realize that quitting is not the answer to his problems.
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