This week's featured story comes from the The Willowbee Tree collection. It's called "Meeting New Friends."

Clancy is feeling nervous about the school's "Winter Festival" and is worried that he might get lost in a group of people he doesn't know very well. When the willow tree takes him to Catahoula Lake in Louisiana, he meets a shy duck from Manitoba and helps her find new friends — and finds his own courage in the process.

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