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Reading Rainbow - Season 14, Episode 120: How Much Is a Million?
David M. Schwartz's book provides ideas for visualizing what a million, a billion, and a trillion really represent. LeVar visits the Crayola factory and talks to workers about how they use grouping techniques to keep track of the huge number of crayons they handle every day. At Giants Stadium in New York, estimation techniques help vendors get ready to feed the crowd.
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Reading Rainbow - Season 14, Episode 119: Owen
On a visit to a playground, LeVar reminisces about being a little boy and growing up with his mother. Vignettes show a young LeVar parting with his favorite blanket and being jealous of all the attention his baby sister is getting. Matthew Broderick reads the book Owen by Kevin Henkes, and LeVar visits a company that creates comic books for children.
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Reading Rainbow - Season 14, Episode 118: How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
In the book by Marjorie Priceman, a cook discovers that his local market is closed and ends up traveling all over the world to get the ingredients for an apple pie. LeVar meets chef Curtis Aikens, who shares cooking tips as well as his own story of how he learned to read as an adult. A visit to the Turkey Hill ice cream factory shows how chemistry is used to make this sweet treat.
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Reading Rainbow - Season 14, Episode 117: Uncle Jed's Barber Shop
A black barber overcomes many obstacles to save enough money to open his own barbershop in the book by Margaree King Mitchell, read by Regina Taylor. After getting a trim from his own barber, LeVar talks to the members of the a cappella singing group the Persuasions about how they stuck with their dream of becoming performers despite discouragement from people who said that a singing group without musical instruments would never make it. A young woman who wants to be a veterinarian talks about the support she's gotten from others.
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Reading Rainbow - Season 14, Episode 116: Fly Away Home
Daniel Saltzman reads Eve Bunting's moving story about a homeless father and son who go from terminal to terminal in an airport, hoping no one will realize they have no home to go to. LeVar talks to kids from homeless families about why they are homeless and about life in shelters and on the streets. He also meets the father and daughter who started Common Sense, an organization that collects pennies and uses them to buy items for homeless shelters, and an 18-year-old boy who volunteers for a food distribution charity.
