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The locket wouldn't budge. It was sealed shut by years of river muck and time. Silas spent three nights at his workbench, using fine brushes and drops of oil to coax the hinge open. He didn't want the gold; he wanted to know who had cherished it enough to engrave a sequence of numbers that looked more like a coordinates than a date.

: The All By Myself series by Mercer Mayer follows a "Little Critter" who can do everything alone—except fall asleep without a story. 112432

: Ricky, the Rock That Couldn't Roll is a popular tale about a flat-sided rock whose friends help him find a way to join in. The locket wouldn't budge

: You might be thinking of The Boy Who Cried Wolf or The Lion and the Mouse . He didn't want the gold; he wanted to