This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia collection. It's called "Spy Team."

Martin's friend Julian is coming over and Sylvia knows that he loves to play spies. Sylvia likes spies too but she really wants to be on Martin and Julian's team - not by herself. When Julian suggests they all be together, Martin wonders who they will spy on. Their solution makes for an exciting afternoon.

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This week's featured story comes from the At Home with Martin & Sylvia collection. It's called "Backyard Water Park."

It is hot, and Martin and Sylvia want to cool off. "Can we go to a water park?" asks Martin hopefully. "I don't think we have a water park around here," answers Momma. But Daddy recollects how he and his brother used to make their own water parks in their backyard. This inspires brother and sister to pull out all sorts of materials and structures to create a cool solution to the summer heat.

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This week's featured story comes from the Sparkle Sleepytime collection. It's called "Flemming the Otter."

Flemming wants to be chief of the sea otters one day, just like his Uncle Colum. Unfortunately, he thinks that being a chief means being strong, confident and really bossy. But being strong, confident and really bossy all the time is stressful! And it makes a little otter really tired. When he learns from his uncle that the most important quality in a leader is telling the truth, Flemming relaxes, and finds life is so much easier when you're just being yourself.

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This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia: More Adventures! collection. It's called "So Much Kale."

Martin and Sylvia discover that their garden is filled with kale ready to harvest. This begs the question - what do you do when you have so much kale?

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This week's featured story comes from the At Home With Martin & Sylvia collection.

It's called "Morning with Momma."

After a long soaking rain, Sylvia is excited about joining Momma on an early morning adventure — foraging for mushrooms in the woods next to the Town Lake. When the morning comes, however, she just wants to sleep late and have pancakes with Daddy and Martin. Reluctantly she gets up and joins Momma on the adventure — and what an adventure it turns out to be! Mushrooms, muffins, and a moose make the morning with Momma full of magic.

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This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia's Nature School collection.

It's called "Kings and Queens of the Forest."

When Martin leaves for Wilderness School, he can't help but feel envious for Sylvia's project with Daddy: preparing for May Day by building a huge bonfire and cooking Beltane Bannock Bread. This has his attention all morning until Eva gives his group an inspiring May Day question: What kind of King or Queen of the Forest do you want to be? His answer helps Martin understand not only the gift of May Day, but of leadership itself.

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This week's featured story comes from the So Many Fairies collection.

It's called "The Bookmender's Helper."

The bookmender works alone. He has always worked alone. And he has been happy enough over the years. But one day, a bedraggled girl with a very old and valuable book arrives at the door to his workshop, interrupting his solitary work. The whisperings of a paper fairy help the bookmender discover the true treasure that lives in both the book and the girl.

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This week's featured story comes from the So Many Fairies collection.

It's called "The Magic Birthday Candles."

Sarah Jane's friends love all her fancy toys and her big playroom, but she would rather play "Hide-and-Seek" or "Explorers", or tag — and not cars or dolls. On her sixth birthday, surrounded by her friends, she makes a birthday wish that inspires a certain fire fairy to create some unique birthday magic for the whole party.

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This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia: More Adventures! collection.

It's called "Wood Elves."

Martin would like to be an elf — specifically, a wood elf. He wants to climb trees, use sticks for magic wands, speak in the magical wood elf language, and ride squirrels from tree to tree. Momma suggests that he try doing those things even though he is not a wood elf, and he is surprised that he can do everything — with the help of a little magic and imagination!

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This week's featured story comes from the Junkyard Tales Collection. It's called "The Spring Festival."

It is time for the Junkyard Spring Festival, and all the animals are doing their part. Ben is given the responsibility of hiding the egg treats for the mice. But while he is hiding them, he finds a mysteriously-decorated egg with a most curious image on it. What could it mean? Who hid it? When the other animals find similar eggs, the true egg hunt begins.

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