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A Song for Lola

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Molly helps her friend create a special song to honor her grandmother, Lola Miranda, who is returning to their Alaskan village from the Philippines. Following an Alaska Native tradition explained by Grandpa Nat, the children secretly gather family stories, then worry the funny ones are not serious enough for a gifted song. They learn that a song should match the person it honors, so a cheerful Lola deserves a cheerful song. At the welcome-back dinner they perform it, and Lola calls it the best gift she has ever received.

The Impossible Dream

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A boy named Carl is building a spaceship from boxes, boards and odds and ends he borrows from his neighbour Stillwater, a panda who lives next door. When Carl's brother and sister insist the spaceship will never fly, Stillwater tells him the story of Joku, a farmer who refused to believe it was impossible to catch the sun. Encouraged, Carl decides to keep trying and lowers his sights to getting just a little way up. The episode ends with Carl, Addy and Michael taking turns on a pretend flight, thrilled that it feels like the spaceship is really soaring.

A Perfect Fit

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In this Stillwater story, young Carl wants to help his older siblings Michael and Addy build a soapbox racer but feels useless when his offers to help keep getting turned down. Their panda neighbour Stillwater visits with lemonade and tells Carl a fable about Hannah and her cracked water pot, which secretly waters a path of flowers. Encouraged that everyone has a gift, Carl helps pick hard-to-reach lemons, names the racer, and discovers he is just the right size to drive it. The episode ends with Carl steering the finished racer down a hill while his siblings cheer.

3, 2, 1 Liftoff!

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Lyla, a girl who solves problems step by step with her blue companion Stu, joins a classroom project to build model spaceships with a partner. She teams up with Joey, a new boy, on a water-powered rocket, but Joey keeps going quiet and slipping away whenever the group gets big. Over two days Lyla realizes Joey feels shy in crowds, and she finds ways to include him one person at a time while they work out why their rocket won't fly. The episode ends at the park, where they seal a leak in the bottle and launch their spaceship together with the whole class.

Tusk, Tusk, and More Tusk

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Molly and her friends Tooey and Trini discover a large tusk buried in the mud near the river in their Alaska village. Grandpa Nat and an archaeologist named Olin Benedict identify it as a woolly mammoth tusk and explain the Ice Age, permafrost, and how the warming climate erodes the riverbank. The children help free the tusk through trial and error, measure it, photograph it, and give it the Gwich'in name 'Trilzok', meaning gentle. The episode ends with a separate live-action segment where children visit a museum to learn whether dinosaurs once lived in Alaska.

Lyla's Snackateria

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Lyla runs a pretend snack restaurant and invents a stacked cracker snack for her brother Luke, layering cheese, jelly, and strawberry. When a big order comes in, she teaches Luke and her companion Stu to make it step by step, and after the jelly runs out Luke swaps in honey barbecue sauce. Customers end up preferring Luke's version, which upsets Lyla until she tastes it herself. She apologizes and the two agree to become snack-invention partners.

Da Get Pep Band

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Lyla's mother comes home celebrating a win with her sports team's cheering group, the Get Pep Band, and Lyla's dad and three children decide to try out. The younger children, Mila and Ev, can play the notes of Hot Cross Buns but cannot hold each one for the right number of beats, so they grow frustrated and nearly give up. Lyla refuses to quit and invents a new way to learn: the children hop across giant notes drawn on the ground while singing, feeling the length of each beat with their bodies. It works, and all three join the band for a final celebration.

Larger Than Life

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Carl, a young boy, spends all his birthday money on a toy robot he imagines will be fifty feet tall and able to shoot light beams. When the package arrives it holds only a small robot, and Carl is deeply disappointed. His neighbor Stillwater, a panda, tells him a story about his friend Dahlia, who planted melon seeds, grew pumpkins by mistake, and turned them into a pie everyone loved. Carl decides he can still have fun with the robot in a different way and plays imaginative adventures with Addy and the others.

The New Park

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Rosie, a curious girl, and her friends spend the day at a neighborhood park with a slide, swings and climbing equipment. When sharing the play space gets crowded, Rosie sets out to work out fair ways for everyone to take turns, using her imagination to picture how a park can serve a whole community. Her friends add their own ideas, and together they settle on a plan. By the end the children are playing together happily.

Lights, Camera, Rosie

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Rosie Fuentes decides to make her own movie at home and takes on the role of director. She casts her younger brother as the camera operator and the family cat in a costumed part, then acts out a pretend detective story with hats, glasses and a treasure prop. When takes do not go to plan, Rosie keeps adjusting her ideas until the film is finished. The episode ends with the family watching the completed movie together on their TV.

La Danse of Friendship

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Nancy and her best friend Bree are asked to make up a dance for their ballet class and decide to perform a pas de deux together. They fall out when Nancy insists on being a rainbow and rejects Bree's peacock idea, and the two stop dancing and talking. After her dad shows how he and her mom shared a single room by compromising, Nancy realises her mistake and apologises to Bree at the recital. The friends forgive each other and perform 'the dance of friendship' side by side.

Nancy Makes Her Mark

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In a suburban front yard, Nancy's dad surprises the family by filling a crack in the walkway with wet cement. Nancy decides to press handprints into it to become memorable like movie stars, then keeps adding footprints and glitter, spoiling the cement each time, with help from her friend Bree and little sister JoJo. When the dog runs through it and ruins everything, Nancy confesses to her dad, who calmly helps patch and redo the prints. Mom comes home to a fixed walkway with the family's prints, and Nancy realises you do not have to be perfect to be remembered.