greed

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Hunted

2003
Boba Fett embarks on a dangerous assignment to prove his mettle to Jabba the Hutt in his quest to become a bounty hunter.

The great white man-eating shark

a cautionary tale
1990
Greedy to have the cove where he swims all to himself, Norvin, who looks a bit like a shark, pretends to be one, scaring off the other swimmers and leaving him in happy aquatic solitude--until he is discovered by an amorous female shark.

Grim Tuesday

2005
Seventh-grader Arthur Penhaligon returns to the parallel universe known as the House to fight his latest enemy, Grim Tuesday, whose greed threatens to destroy both the House and the Earth.

Straw into gold

2001
Pursued by greedy villains, two boys on a quest to save innocent lives meet the banished queen whose son was stolen by Rumpelstiltskin eleven years earlier, and she provides much more than the answer they seek.

Lady Muck

1997
Sowk and Boark, two greedy pigs, plot to become rich from the sale of the truffles they have found in the woods, but their greed proves to be their undoing.

Playhouse

2003
Rene asks her father and mother to build her a playhouse, a play barn, a play cow, and more, until finally her parents decide that they'd like to have a play Rene.

The parrot Tico Tango

2004
A cumulative rhyme in which a greedy parrot keeps taking fruit from the other creatures of the rainforest until he can hold no more.

The leprechaun's gold

2004
A leprechaun intervenes when a greedy young harpist sabotages a royal contest.

When stories fell like shooting stars

1996
When Fox sees the sun fall from the sky, his selfish actions set in motion a series of events that lead to war, but when Bear finds the fallen moon, he gets the other animals to work together to return the moon to where it belongs.

Gobble, gobble, slip, slop

a tale of a very greedy cat
2004
In this story based on a folk tale from India, a very greedy cat eats five hundred cakes, his friend the parrot, the nosy old woman, and much more.

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