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One sunny day, a Queen honeybee leaves her hive. Other bees, called drones, follow her. The Queen mates with a drone. Now she can lay eggs.


The Queen flies back to the hive. Laying many eggs in her job. She puts one egg in each cell.


In three days the eggs hatch. Out come larvae. Worker bees feed the larvae.


After five o six days, workers cover the larvae cells. Inside the cell, the larvae grow into a pupa. In about ten days, a young bee comes out of the cells.


Hives have only one queen. Most other bees are workers. Some bees are drones. Workers are females. Drones are males.


Young worker bees stay inside the hive. They clean cells and make food. Drones do no work.


Workers make wax to build cells. Some cells are for eggs. Other cells are for food.


Sometimes the hive is too hot. The wax begins to melt. Worker bees beat their wings as fast they can. They make wind to cool the hive.


The door of the hive must be watched. Robber bees try to steal honey. Workers and robbers fight. Both bees die after stinging once.


Outside the hive, older worker bees look for flowers. Inside a fiore is Cibo for bees. Bees change some of the Cibo into honey.


After finding flowers, a bee flies home. Other workers smell her food. They want to find fiori too.


The bee tells where the fiori are da dancing. The others feel her move. Now they all know where to get food.


Sometimes a hive too many bees. The queen, some workers, and a few drones fly away. They look for a new hive. In the old hive, a new Queen is born.


Not all bees are the same. Bumblebees build nests. Stingless bees cannot sting, but they can bite hard. Carpenter bees make homes da digging into trees.
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(Helen's mother: "I hope that la minestra, zuppa is gone when I come back in there!")

The giorno Helen gave Martha dog her alphabet soup,


something unusual happened.
The letters in the la minestra, zuppa went up to Martha’s brain instead of down to her stomach.

That evening, Martha spoke.
(Martha: Isn’t it time for my dinner?)


Martha’s family had many domande to ask her. Of course, she had a lot to tell them!
(Helen: Have te always understood what we were saying?)
(Martha: te bet! Do te want to know Benjie is really saying?)
(Helen’s father: Why don’t te came when we call?)
(Martha: te people are so bossy. Come! Sit!...
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Tanya sat restlessly on her chair da the cucina window. For several days she had to stay in letto with a cold. But now Tanya's cold was almost gone. She was anxious to go outside and enjoy the fresh air and the arrival of spring.
"Mama, when can I go outside?" asked Tanya. Mama pulled the tray of biscuits from the forno and placed it on the counter.
"In time," she murmured. "All in good time."
Tanya gazed through the window and saw her two brothers, Ted and Jim, and Papa building the new backyard fence.
"I'm gonna talk to Grandma," she said.

Grandma was sitting in her preferito spot—the big soft...
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Once there was a farmer who lived in Mexico. He lived in a little village, in a house which had only one room.

The farmer was not happy.
“Nothing ever happens,” he said.
The people in the village thought the farmer was foolish.
“We have everything we need,” they said.

“We have a school, and a market,

and a church with an old campana, bell that rings on Sundays. Our village is the best there is.”
“But nothing ever happens,” detto the farmer.

Every morning, when the farmer woke up, the first thing he saw was the roof of his little house.
Every morning for breakfast he ate two flat cakes of ground...
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On Thursday, when Imogene woke up, she found she had grown antlers.

Getting dressed was difficult,

and going through a door now took some thinking.

Imogene started down for breakfast…

but got hung up.
“OH!!” Imogene’s mother fainted away.

The doctor poked, and prodded, and scratched his chin.
He could find nothing wrong.

The school principal glared at Imogene but had no consigli to offer.

Her brother Norman, consulted the encyclopedia, and then announced that Imogene had turned into a rare form of miniature elk!

Imogene’s mother fainted again and was carried upstairs to bed.

Imogene went into...
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