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…Without thinking about it, Boy-boy jumped into the car and Napoleon ran after him, because his friends were inside.

“Ooh, Boy-Boy” – Bubu said almost crying when he saw his friend – “The hunters have caught me, what´s going to happen to me!! I heard I was going to be sold for money. I can´t live locked up far from the jungle!”

“Don´t worry, I will free you ” – Boy-Boy said. – “I will also open the parrots and the toucans cage, and free the baby leopard too. But we have to do all of this in silence. Don´t worry Bubu, Napoleon is coming to help me”.

Boy-Boy cut the rope tied around Bubu´s legs and said: “Don´t speak and don’t move. Before we escape up the road, we need to wait until Napoleon arrives. Open the parrots and toucan´s cages. Tell them not to move and to be silent. Take care of the baby leopard and keep him calm to stop him crying”.

“Ooh!” – Bubu said – “But we are already near the road and Napoleon isn´t here, I am very scared”.

The hunters were putting up a sign saying: “Parrots, toucans and wild animals for sale”.

“Poor me..” – Bubu moaned – “I hope Napoleon arrives”.

Meanwhile, Napoleon met the mummy of the baby leopard, who was also following the hunter’s trails, and she joined Napoleon to rescue them. She knew a shortcut to reach the hunter’s cage faster.

They arrived where the illegal hunters had put up their shop, and hid.

– “Well” – said one of them – “We are ready”.

Suddenly, the mummy leopard jumped on one of the hunters from where she was hiding and Napoleon bit the other hunter´s leg. Boy-Boy shouted: “Everybody out of the cages, fly to freedom!”

The hunters were screaming and begging for help, pleading so the “beasts” would go away.

A police patrol appeared, Napoleon explained to them what the hunters had done, and the police took them and handcuffed them, because they had commit a crime. Wild animals are from the jungle and have to live freely.

Bubu and Boy-Boy ran towards the jungle and waited for mummy leopard and Napoleon in the middle of the path.

When mummy leopard arrived she hugged her baby happily, Napoleon arrived behind her and also hugged his friend Bubu with joy. Then they all went back to the jungle.

Bubu said excitedly: “Thank you friends, thank you!!! What would have become of me!” – he said – “Now I know we are more than friends, we are all for one and one for all. I love friendship!”

THE END

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Our three friends lived in the jungle. They used to spend all day exploring the forest and then sleep huddled up against each other at night.

Napoleon, the dog, used to spend the day trying to catch lizards; Boy-boy, the cat, ran behind colorful butterflies, and Bubu, the badger, looked for honeycombs inside the trees and for insects on the jungle floor that he really liked to eat.

One day, they heard a strange noise. It sounded like an engine, and they also heard voices. But, who could it be? Nobody could reach that part of the jungle.

Those noises intrigued them, so they moved closer to the place where the voices were coming from and listened…

“We will be fine here! – a voice said – “It´s a good place to wait for the animals, I can see many tracks and footprints”.

Napoleon, Bubu and Boy-Boy left the place stealthily as they were afraid of being discovered. They were horrified by what they had just heard and discovered.

After recovering from their shock, Napoleon said: “How horrible! Those are illegal hunters!! I heard that they take wild cats, monkeys, parrots, toucans and other animals from the jungle, to sell them later at the edge of the road!”.

“Oops!! Thanks goodness I´m almost a pet cat and you are not in danger, Napoleon, as you are a normal dog, but Bubu is a badger, and they might want to capture him”. Then, looking at Bubu, Boy-Boy said:

“Well Bubu, we have to hide you, but not too far from us!!”

“Do not go looking for honecombs far from here! We have to stay together, this way Boy-boy and I will be able to protect you” – Napoleon said.

Then they were more relaxed and slept all together.

When daylight came, Bubu could not resist the temptation of going to look for some honey. So he went to the tree but suddenly…BAAAANG!, Bubu felt a rope around his neck and heard a terrifying voice say: “Look what I have caught! It’s a badger!”

“That is worth a lot of money, I know someone who will pay a good price for this animal”

Another voice said: “Let´s go, so we can be on the road selling our parrots, toucans, a baby leopard and this badger before midday”.

Napoleon and Boy-Boy were afraid when they noticed that Bubu had disappeared. They decided to look for him.

Napoleon smelled everything around searching for a track, while Boy-boy followed him. The track took them to the ilegal hunters campsite.

When they arrived, they heard a baby leopard crying, parrots screaming, toucans shouting and could hear the hunters putting Bubu, with his legs tied, inside the back of a car.

Without thinking about it, Boy-boy jumped into the car and Napoleon ran after him, because his friends were inside.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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There was a girl called Anna, who was studying in Esmarth Vil, a primary school in the United States.

She was the most hardworking girl at her school, her marks were higher than the others. She was the best, but nobody wanted to be her friend. They didn´t want to play with her and teased her.

One day, the teacher set an exam and a boy called Robert signed his exam using Ana´s name. So, when the teacher returned all the exams, everybody was shocked. Anna found out she had failed the exam, and the other kids were happy of this.

The next day, when Anna arrived at school all the kids wanted to be with her and invited her to play with them. Suddenly, when Anna was playing with the other children,the teacher appeared to inform her that there had been a mistake, and she hadn´t failed.

The teacher explained them what had happened and afterwould, they all stopped playing with Anna.

One day, the First Lady of the United States went to visit the school. She wanted to visit every child in every schools. During her visit, the First Lady saw that Anna was crying and so she said:

– “What is your name?”

The girl answered: “Anna”

And the First Lady asked her why was she crying, Anna explained what had happened. She told her how the other kids didn’t like her just because she was the most hardworking at the school and she always got good results.

Then, the First Lady took the school microphone and told stories about her childhood that were similar to Anna´s.

After her speech all the children realized that they had been rude to Anna, and felt sorry. They should have been happy to have a friend that got such good marks and made such a big effort at school.

Then they followed Anna’s example and their marks began to improve and they always played together without ignoring her or anyone else.

From then on they were very happy and learned the lesson of respecting others.

And that is the end of the story…

Values of the story: Respect, friendship.

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Once upon a time, there were two friends called Vela and Lily, who were always together until one day, due to a study commission in class, Vela was sent to sit beside another girl who was called Poppy.

They soon laughed together, and when Lily went to Vela´s house she was with Poppy, laughing and playing. Poppy didn´t even noticed when Lily arrived. So Lily went home really sad, looked at the picture of them playing in the park, then went to bed and didn´t want anything.

Vela called her and said:

– “Hi Lily, can I go to your house? Poppy just left and I want to see you. My mum told me you were at home”.

– “Yes I am whilst you were with poppy” – Vela said with vengeful tone.

– “Well, can I come?”

– “Yes, sure, come, but…Are you a friend of Poppy?”

-“Yes”

Lily became furious, but said with her normal voice:

– “Ok, I will wait for you”

– “See you later”.

Lily was angrier than a giant ogre, but she simply took a pillow, put it against the wall, relaxed and watched TV. She was watching “My little pony” when Vela arrived, and Lily said:

– “Oh, hi! Come in Vela, let´s watch My little Pony“.

-“Ok” – and they settled in front of the TV.

After a while, Poppy went to Lily´s house, and said:

– “Hi Vela”.

Vela got off her bed and left with Poppy. Lily felt guilty and angry at the same time. She threw her bag to the floor, and went to bed and little by little forgot all about it.

Next Monday, they went to school and Lily put itching powder on Poppy´s chair. Lily laughed, but not too much.

Poppy sat down and began to scratch and jumped up crazily from the chair. Everybody except Vela mocked her, especially Lily, who laughed even more. Vela said:

-“Don´t tease Poppy.”

But Lily ignored her and continued to laugh. Vela sat down feeling very offended.

After a long time they forgave each other and the three of them became friends. Vela had a Wii, so they were all entertained playing many games. They had so much fun and never fought again.

THE END

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Once upon a time there was a girl called Lily who was in her first year of elementary study. It was her first day at school and a new girl arrived. Her skin was white, she had straight hair, was Catholic and her name was Mayte.

Lily was very shy, so it was Mayte who took the initiative to talk to her.

Lily had dark skin and curly hair and was also a Catholic. Both became best friends, in spite of their differences.

A year passed and they went to a new school for their second year of elementary. It was a Spanish-American school.

They were always together through the third and fourth grade but when the fifth year started, Mayte had to move to Beauty-village, the place where Mayte was born.

Lily was very sad, like Mayte, because it was time to say goodbye. Mayte was going to miss all her friends: Dianne, Lissette, James, Phoebe, Hector, Mary, Diana, George, Olivia, Erika, Charlie, Adam, Andrea, Alex, Anna, Renee, Cynthia, Linda, Danielle , Philip, dana, Lula and Lily.

Mayte went to Scout School. When she started at her new school she met her english teacher from her old school, Rowan, Miss Faby.

At Scout everything was different from the other school but at least she was with her family in Beauty-village and that was the most important thing, to always be part of a united family.

Mayte still maintains her friendship with her other friends and continues to visit Lily when she can go back to Ciudad el Carmen, because that is where Lily and the others lived.

In spite of the fact that the two girls had to separate they wanted to keep their friendship forever. As they grew up they saw each other more often and made an effort to maintain their beautiful friendship.

THE END

Moral of the short story: Nothing is impossible, make an effort to achieve your dream.

Values of the short Story: Friendship, effort.

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Once upon a time…

There was a boy called Mike who got along very well with the other children; Ruth Charlie and Eddy. They were all very good friends.

But one day, they had a fight. Nobody knew why this had happened because they played together every day and never had arguments.

It all started when they were trying to decide what to play. Each of them chose a different game. One of them decided to play football, another wanted to skip with a rope, and another wanted to play hide and seek.

They could not reach an agreement and so started to argue. One of them stopped the dispute quickly, saying:

– “Don’t fight just because each of you have different ideas. We can organize ourselves and play all the games. A different game every day, and then all of us will be happy“.

The kids realized that arguing was not good and were very sorry, because they were very good friends. They laughed at what had happened and played everyday as before.

They decided to invent different games every afternoon, and had so much fun using their imagination.

They never argued again, and were very happy because they respected each other.

THE END

Moral Of the Short Story: We all have to learn to live with people and learn how to be happy as we are.

Values of the Story: Friendship, comradeship, self-esteem, respect.

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Once upon a time…

There was a friendly monster called Merlin, who didn´t like being bad, but everybody was afraid of him.

There were also dragons and, as they were bad, people thought that Merlin was bad too.

Merlin decided to go out for a walk with his friend Lisa. They met a group of girls who, when they saw Merlin, were really scared.

One of them was the King´s daughter who then told her father what she had seen. the King sent his best hunters in kingdom to search for the monster.

They looked for him everywhere as they did not want him to scare the town’s inhabitants again.

Merlin saw them and ran away. He was afraid for himself and for his friend Lisa as he did not want her to be hurt.

They were running away from the hunters when Lisa fell into a trap the hunters had set and was injured.

Merlin pulled her out of the trap and saved her and they went to live in another place. There, they demonstrated to everybody that they were not bad and that sometimes appearances are decieving. From then on, they could go out for walks and nobody was scared of them or tried to hurt them.

THE END

Moral of the short Story: Be with your friends and be faithful.

Values of the Story: friendship and happiness.

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Ruth was a beautiful girl with red hair like the sun’s rays. Her large, beautiful black eyes which she had inherited from her maternal grandmother, sparkled with excitement at seeing the sea. She liked to walk along the beach to greet the sea and talk to him.

Every time she visited him, the sea waves filled Ruth´s face with salty drops that gave her the feeling of receiving a thousand kisses from him.

– “Hi Ruth! How are you?” – whispered the sea – “where have you been? I have really missed you”.

Ruth, who was privileged to hear his voice, answered:

– “I missed you too, that is why I have come to visit you again. Do you know what, my dear sea? I could never miss the privilege of admiring you and hearing the beautiful sound you emit”.

Ruth continued saying:

-“The most fascinating thing about you is when your arms turn into waves that are similar to wings. You rise trying to touch the sky and when they break on the sand, many white butterflies come out from your foam. Also the dancing of your waves sounds like drums pounding to remind us of your power. Oh! but what I most adore about you are the ringing of your shells when you draw back to form a new wave. They ring with the sand, emitting the most beautiful and perfect melody that I have ever heard from any musical instrument. That is the reason why I love you so much, my dear sea. And I will come every day to visit you and play with you”.

Ruth said goodbye to the sea each day, after playing with him and always promised to visit him again the day after.

THE END

The moral of the Story: Love and respect nature and the environment. It is fundamental for all of us, because we are part of it.

Values of the Story: Respect, friendship, Love.

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…One night, when all the lights were switched off, a particular dew settled on the garden, and a chorus of voices filled the air which tasted like honey.

Helen saw lights jingling as fireflies approached them, and when one of them sat on her shoulders she thought she was hearing voices whispering in her ear, but that had to be impossible. Nevertheless, a sweet and melodic sound interrupted the silence:

– “Don´t cry” it said.

The voice was now really clear. Shocked, she fell backwards to the ground and as she sat up she watched as those green and grey lights became smaller and a woman dressed in brown autumn colours appeared instead.

Tiny and shiny, the woman could fit in the palm of a hand. Helen opened her eyes, rubbed them many times, until finally, she asked what was she doing there.

The fairy introduced herself and introduced the others who were with her too. They were all very sad because they had heard Helen sobbing from their houses at the top of the trees.

The rabbit was also there and came out of his den, the squirrel too, who left her wet corner, even the snake woke up from her lethargy.

Obviously, there was quite a stir that night. Helen’s worrying had reached all their hearts. Suddenly, the fairies began to exchange knowing looks, laughs and whispers. They had come up with a plan.

One of them shook her wand and pointed it up to the sky, and an emerald green light sparkled. Then, all of them said loudly:

-“Your wish will be done!”

Croaky´s eyes opened as if by magic, blinking. Helen was shocked and excited at the same time, her cry scared all the inhabitants of the forest who jumped for joy when they found out what had happened.

Helen held Croaky in her arms and gave her the most tender of kisses. The little frog had returned from her dreamy illness, and only love, real love could have made this miracle happen.

THE END

Moral of the Short Story: Wishes can come true if we wish for them from the bottom of our hearts.

Values of the Short Story: friendship, Love, faith.

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Helen was a smiling and rebellious girl, who lived with her parents in the house they had inherited from her grandmother Martha.

She fell in love with the garden immediately, and with the lush ivy growing around the balconies and columns.

A splendid lemon tree blossomed with a hundred colours. Young fruit hung from the thin branches, grazing the green ground. There was a grey plot behind, which was where she met her for the first time.

She was sitting looking at the pasture, waiting for who knows what, with her eyes half-closed due to the incessant drizzle in the sunshine. Helen approached her carefully not to scare her too much and then hesitated:

-“Hello”

The greeting that came back was both low and high-pitched, saying “Croak“. A large smile appeared on Helen’s striking face and from that moment, she and the sweet little frog to whom she baptized “Croaky”, became inseparable friends.

After a long time of friendship and sharing the little frog became ill. Helen was worried but nobody paid attention to a girl´s caprice especially when it was just a sick frog.

They could not understand what Croaky meant to Helen. So, the girl waited for a miracle, and prayed the whole day and night crossing her hands over her chest.

Days passed but Croaky did not recover. Helen sobbed intensely with sadness in her heart and then something unexpected happened…

TO BE CONTINUED…

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Moral of the Short Story: Wishes can come true if we wish for them from the bottom of our hearts.

Values of the Short Story: friendship, Love, faith.

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