"A Visit with Grandpa" biscuits - round forms of baked bread dough made without yeast dough - soft, thick mixture of flour, milk, fat, and other ingredients for baking prairie - a large open area with few or no trees raisins - dried grapes rumpled - crumpled, crushed, wrinkled teasing - pestering or annoying someone with unkind jokes or tricks wrinkled - having creases or folds

"Train to Somewhere" adopt - to take a child of other parents and bring up as your own atlas - a book of maps carriage - a four-wheeled vehicle that is pulled or pushed couple - a man and woman who are married, engaged, and so on misery - great suffering or unhappiness platform - a raised level surface

"Yingtao's New Friend" instruments - devices for producing musical sounds measures - bars of music orchestra -a group of musicians playing at a concert, opera, or play rehearsal - practice to prepare for public performances triangle - a musical instrument

"Family Pictures" border - a boundary or edge future - what is to come handkerchief - a soft piece of cloth used for wiping the face, nose, inspired - caused someone to do something good involved - absorbed in, included laundry - clothes to be washed memories - all that a person remembers scene - a view or picture

"Addie In Charge" bellows - makes a loud, deep noise billows - great waves of smoke, flame, or sound crouched - stooped low with bent legs smarted - felt or caused sharp pain tufts - bunches of feathers, hair, or grass held together at one end

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