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Grandpa's Drum

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Molly finds an old photograph of her grandfather Nat as a boy, singing and drumming with a young girl, and learns that he no longer sings because he gave his drum away long ago. With her friend Tooey, she uses clues in the photo (mountains, a water tower, train tracks, and partial letters on a sign) to locate the town of Tiritchik and find the now-grown woman who still has the drum. The elder Shyahtsoo explains that at boarding school Native children were forbidden from singing their own songs, which is why Grandpa stopped. Molly returns the drum, and during the community show Grandpa rediscovers his songs and drums alongside her, followed by a live-action segment of Alaska Native children sharing their own traditions.

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.

Nancy's Devine Sleepover

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Nancy takes her little sister JoJo for a sleepover at the fancy Mrs. Devine's house and packs a survival kit to help JoJo feel brave. Once the lights go out, it is Nancy herself who cannot sleep because she misses her parents. With Mrs. Devine's kindness and a phone call home, Nancy learns that feeling homesick in a new place is normal. She decides to stay and the sleepover ends happily.

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 Scientist Who Studied Bug Brains

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Two hosts and their robot rat Squeaks watch honey bees in a garden and then tell the true story of Dr. Charles Henry Turner, a scientist who proved that bugs can learn and remember. The episode explains his colored-box experiment, which showed bees can see color and return to where they found food, and notes that he was refused a university job because he was Black. It closes with the hosts wondering about their own bee questions and inviting children to experiment. Real bee footage and simple animations illustrate the science and Turner's life throughout.

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.

The Search for Mono

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Dora, Kate and Pablo are handing out donated toys at the Children's Hospital when they meet Miguel, who has lost his stuffed monkey Mono. After helping him calm down enough to remember that Mono fell out of his bag on the train, they follow the trail to the station, meet a room full of forgotten toys in the lost and found, and repair an old locomotive that carries them to the train yard. There they identify the right carriage just as a cleaning robot starts sealing it, and Pablo's soccer kick opens the door in time. Mono goes back to Miguel, and the leftover toys from the lost and found find homes with the other children.

Hops Home

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Wanda brings her pet bullfrog Bella to the classroom, but Bella hops out an open window during class. Miss Frizzle turns the search into a field trip on the Magic School Bus, which shrinks and hops the students through a meadow, a tree, a fast stream and finally a beaver pond, testing each spot for the food, water, space and shelter a frog needs. Wanda finds Bella safe at the pond, where a heron and a new frog friend named Herman make it clear this is her real home. Wanda decides to leave Bella there and say goodbye, and the class returns to school.

Petey the Stargazer

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Petey, a boy who loves stargazing, decides aliens must not be real after a supposed UFO turns out to be a blimp. His friends Goldie and Romeo, unwilling to let him lose that wonder, secretly stage crop circles, a homemade UFO and an alien visitor named Zor-Zor, and soon the whole town of Boysenburg prepares a welcome. When Petey discovers it was all his friends' doing, he decides that having friends like them means anything is possible and keeps believing. The segment ends with the group back at their telescopes and a short teaser for the next story.

Silent Treatment

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George, a quiet moose in the town of Elwood City, becomes convinced his friends never notice him, so he decides to stop talking until someone does. A dream in which his dummy Wally shows a world where George never existed helps him realise he does matter. His friends, who had been secretly planning a surprise party, reveal that he won the woodworking contest, and the group ends up playing hide-n-seek together. Real children then share their own funny misunderstandings.

Li'l Cutie

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Goldie, a giant girl in a colourful town, longs for a pet and adopts a ladybug she names Lil' Cutie. Determined to keep her safe, she builds a tiny bed and seals her in a jar, until the ladybug escapes and the friends search the whole town to find her. Goldie realises that keeping Lil' Cutie shut away made her unhappy and apologises. The episode ends with Goldie setting the ladybug free to join her own family living nearby.

Muffy Misses Out

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Muffy, a confident organizer at Lakewood Elementary, is thrilled to visit Italy with her father but worries about leaving her friends to run the school bake sale. While she is away, the friends swap her Italian theme for New Orleans beignets and jazz, and the sale is a hit, which leaves Muffy feeling unneeded. When her friends realize how much her ideas and presence meant, they bring her back to help settle a disagreement over decorating the stage curtain. A short closing segment has real children explain who civil rights leader John Lewis was.