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GETTING IN
A 1960's teen from a family skilled at navigating societal exclusions, and taught by her family how to ‘get in’, is blindsided when trying to get into college by her parents who are keeping her out.
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108 pages
A colored girl of the 1960’s struggles to understand adult biases against diversity as she follows her astute church-going family’s successful strategies of ‘getting in’ to navigate society’s negative racial mindsets and exclusions. her older brothers sucessfully gain entrance to collegeBut she is blindsided when choosing to go to college. It is her parents who are the ones who try to keep their only girl child from getting in. Her insistence on having friends and interactions with people from different cultures and backgrounds, leads to them being the ones who help her get in.
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RETIRING SANTA
Three kids set out to revolutionize the holiday of Gifting, which is what Christmas has evolved into in year 2490; so they kidnap the one guy who is paid to play Santa for all of Earth’s children and outer worlds.
110 pages
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Retiring Santa is a story of three eleven-year-old boys in 2490 who set out to change Gifting, the evolution of holidays that involve giving; so they kidnap Santa to stop deliveries. They demand that children be in charge of gifting children instead of a symbol who just gives out presents, a paid employee of The United Worlds Group. Their journey to have children gifting children across worlds takes them to situations not in their big plan, and interactions with Wade, who plays Santa, which is unexpected by all.
EXPECTING
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An imaginative little girl finds her doll is pregnant, a prank by older sisters who tell her not to reveal it to their overburdened pregnant mother, knowing that one more prank will be the last straw.
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Older twin sisters stuff their littler sister's doll's stomach. Now there is a pregnant doll and a pregnant mom in the house. To keep their mother from finding out about the meanest of their pranks, the twins realize that they must manage the doll's pregnancy. Using mom's pregnancy as a guide, they become involved in both taking care of the pregnant doll and finding ways to keep it from their mother. However, little sister works the attention for all it's worth. The twins lose their free time to getting or making all the things a pregnant doll needs. Then their girlfriends find out about the doll and offer even more attention and care taking. The twins come up with a plan to "get rid of the doll" only to find that the celebrity doll has to be a loving idea they came up with, because mom discovers what everyone is talking about. Mom makes it clear that the twins will have to come up with a new baby doll for their sister for the birth. When the doll is ready to give birth, the little sister announces that the doll is having triplets.