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Matching Pair

They were dressed in matching red overalls and white sneakers. And they wore matching red baseball hats with the words WELCOME WAGON embroidered on the brim. —THE SASQUATCH ESCAPE by Suzanne Selfors

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Familiar Fashion

A figure stepped into the stoop. Dry leaves swirled all around him. His face and hands were pale in the moonlight. He was wearing a long black cloak and a black hat that looked horribly, horribly familiar. —THE NIGHT GARDENER by Jonathan Auxier

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Wear a Helmet

Mom says physical exercise is healthy and important but it’s risky and dangerous. So, I have a bike but it’s stationary. She’s too worried I’ll fall and injure myself to let me out on the open road. Or even the open driveway. But I have complete freedom to bike in place as long as I wear a helmet.—THE INCREDIBLE MAGIC OF BEING by Kathryn Erskine

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Acceptable Eats

She was not allowed to accept things to eat or drink from Non-Family Members. Liza often wished the rule applied to Family Members instead. She would much rather have had one of Mrs. Costenblatt’s cookies than her aunt Virginia’s tuna casserole. —THE SPINDLERS by Lauren Oliver

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Taste Test

When I was tiny, I’d help Mom cook, and she’d let me figure out what tasted good by putting out all the spice bottles and letting me choose which ones we’d have on our dinner. This meant we’d sometimes have chicken with nutmeg and tapioca … or milkshakes with pepper. Dad and Mom were good sports about eating whatever random combos I came up with. —AIR by Monica Roe

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The Human Tongue

There’s this totally false map of the human tongue. It’s supposed to show where we taste different things, like salty on one side of the tongue, sweet in the front, bitter in the back. Some guy drew it a hundred years ago, and people have been forcing kids to memorize it ever since. —LIAR AND SPY by Rebecca Stead

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Chocolate Pudding

Katybird tucked her knees under her chin and covertly fished a bag of jelly beans she’d swiped from storage out of a drawer. A happy mood called for lime-flavored beans, thoughtful times needed root beer, and anger demanded cinnamon. Today’s flavor was chocolate pudding, the flavor of soul-sucking misery. She commenced her brooding. —CATTYWAMPUS by Ash Van Otterloo

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Enjoy It

“Autumn—Halloween especially—was her favorite time of year. She was determined to enjoy it properly, even if her family was moving. But as the trees whizzed by in an orange-and-ruby fury, Tennie’s nerves couldn’t settle.” —A TOUCH OF RUCKUS by Ash Van Otterloo

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Changing Seasons

A gracious September and a mellow October were succeeded by a soft and sad November, when long silken lines of rain slanted across the sere hillsides. —PAT OF SILVER BUSH by L.M. Montgomery

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Good Things

"In nature, orange means good things, like pumpkins, and juice, and autumn leaves, and sunsets. But when you paint something orange it usually means something not-so-good. Except, of course, if it’s Halloween. And even Halloween is scary sometimes.” —ONE DAY AND ONE AMAZING MORNING ON ORANGE STREET by Joanne Rocklin

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