greed

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greed

Humble pie

2002
Theo, spoiled rotten by his mother and father, is sealed into a pie by his grandmother and begins to learn the error of his naughty ways.

The greedy python

2012
A greedy python swallows ten animals whole, and feeling a bit ill coughs them out, leaving him hungry again.

It was Halloween night

a scary math story--with tangrams!
2001
Angry about being giving a tangram puzzle instead of candy, trick-or-treater Greedy Pete smashes it and finds it pursuing him as it rearranges itself into various animals. Includes related math activities.

The hungry black bag

1999
Meeting several animals on their way to market, greedy Ole Goat takes their wares for his hungry black bag, but he suffers an unfortunate fate when he tries to take Bear's hat.

Barker's crime

1996
A hungry stray dog steals the aroma of a greedy man's food and a just punishment is handed down.

The boy who spoke colors

1993
When a greedy king kidnaps Felix, a boy who can only speak in colors, and tries to exploit that gift, the king encompasses his own doom.

Four fat rats

1987
Four fat sassy rats leave home and eat a wide swathe through the world, alienating everybody on the way.

McTeague

a story of San Francisco
2002
McTeague, a quack dentist in late nineteenth-century San Francisco, remains friends with Marcus even after stealing Marcus's girlfriend, but things sour between them when Trina wins the lottery and refuses to share with anyone.

Cowboy Jos?

2005
A poor cowboy enters a rodeo to win a date from a pretty se?orita, but afterwards wonders if he should spend his winnings on the girl, who is only interested in the money, or on his trusty horse, whose encouragement helped him win.

The dragon of Cripple Creek

a novel
2011
When Kat, her father, and brother visit an old gold mine that has been turned into an amusement park, she falls down a shaft and meets an ancient dragon, the last of his kind, and inadvertently triggers a twenty-first century gold rush.

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