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Speaker 1: Hello Friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to kids

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Speaker 1: short stories. Today story is brought to us by Sophia. Hey, Sophia,

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Speaker 1: she sent me an awesome idea for her story, and

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Speaker 1: on any of our awesome stories. Are you guys ready

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Speaker 1: for today's adventure? Oh Boy, there's a dragon be too.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. It was a cold and wintry day. When

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Speaker 1: Sophia looked out the window, she knew that today was

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Speaker 1: an adventure day. She was very excited to find something new.

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Speaker 1: You see, Sophia was an adventurer. That means well, she

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Speaker 1: loves adventures. Do you like going on adventures? Oh, me too,

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Speaker 1: I I never pass up an opportunity to go on

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Speaker 1: an adventure. Sophia, she was extremely brave and had been

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Speaker 1: planning today's adventure for many weeks. You See, there were

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Speaker 1: mountains that surrounded Sophia's house and, one by one, she

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Speaker 1: had been traveling up and down all of the mountains,

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Speaker 1: but today was the big one, the big mountain called

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Speaker 1: cloud mountain because it was so tall it went through

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Speaker 1: the clouds. She grabbed all over gear, which meant snow

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Speaker 1: pants and special boots, in a very warm jacket, with

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Speaker 1: cold adventure, but Sophia was ready for anything. She headed

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Speaker 1: All right, Sophia. Well, just make sure that your home

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Speaker 1: before it gets dark and stay safe. We love you.

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Speaker 1: By I love you, shouted Sophia as she started her

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Speaker 1: hike up the trail. There was a little bit of snow.

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Speaker 1: It was definitely cold and windy, but this part of

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Speaker 1: the hike it was just, you know, maybe an inch

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Speaker 1: of snow. That was easy, but it would get much,

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Speaker 1: much harder. After about thirty minutes had passed, she had

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Speaker 1: reached a much higher elevation than she had begun and

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Speaker 1: it was time to pull out the snow shoes. What

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Speaker 1: are snow shoes? Have you ever walked in really deep

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Speaker 1: snow before? Yeah, well, if you haven't snow, when it

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Speaker 1: gets really deep, sometimes it can be really hard to

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Speaker 1: the bottom, and right now the snow was getting as

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Speaker 1: deep as Sophia's knees, which made it very hard to

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Speaker 1: walk through. As she pulled out her snow shoes, she

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Speaker 1: strapped them onto her shoes. And wait a second. What

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Speaker 1: are snow shoes? Good question. Well, they kind of look

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Speaker 1: like a tennis racket. Yes, I know that sounds kind

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Speaker 1: of silly, but snowshoes they help you stay above that

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Speaker 1: deep snow. It works in spreading out your weight. So

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Speaker 1: imagine if you had a really wide shoe, like like

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Speaker 1: a tennis racket, tied onto the bottom of your feet.

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Speaker 1: That makes your surface area much bigger and spreads out

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Speaker 1: the weight across the snow so that you can stay

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Speaker 1: on top of the snow instead of sinking all the

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Speaker 1: way down, which makes walking a whole lot easier. Sophia

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Speaker 1: was sitting on an old tree as she was strapping

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Speaker 1: She said, that'll make it a whole lot easier. I

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Speaker 1: love hiking in the snow. It's so fun, and she

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Speaker 1: continued her hike up the mountain. She was approaching the clouds. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe it. It looks so beautiful up here.

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Speaker 1: As she was looking around and turn it, she could

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Speaker 1: see for miles. The view she had was absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: She could see her house way down there and she

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Speaker 1: could even see her friend's house. Wow, she was really

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Speaker 1: high up this mountain and could see for miles. Then

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Speaker 1: she continued her hike up towards the clouds. You see,

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Speaker 1: everybody wondered what the top of this mountain. Remember, cloud

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Speaker 1: mountain is through the clouds. Everyone wondered what the top

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Speaker 1: looked like because you couldn't even see it because it

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Speaker 1: was always in the clouds. Sophia was determined to be

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Speaker 1: one of the first to ever see what's on the

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Speaker 1: stars were. Holy smokes, said Sophia. I feel like I

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Speaker 1: could just reach out and grab one of those stars.

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Speaker 1: She unstrapped her snowshoes and thought about jumping up and

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Speaker 1: out of the sky? I don't think so, but Sophia

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Speaker 1: As she knelt down and started to stretch her legs,

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Speaker 1: just maybe, she could reach one of the stars. She

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Speaker 1: up her hand. Her Glove, was now holding something, something

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Speaker 1: that was very strange. Wow, what is this thing? It

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Speaker 1: glowed like a star, but it was hard in it.

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Speaker 1: It looked almost like an egg. Wow, I gotta take

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Speaker 1: this home and check this out. Sophia carefully placed it

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Speaker 1: in her bag. She now switched out her snow shoes

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Speaker 1: for Snow Skis and zoomed down the mountain. Do you

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Speaker 1: ski down a Snow Mountain? Yes, it is way faster,

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Speaker 1: as Sophia is zooming down the mountain back towards her house.

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Speaker 1: As she slid to a stop in her backyard, she

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Speaker 1: couldn't wait to show her parents what she had found.

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Speaker 1: They were absolutely amazed. They had never seen someone grab

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Speaker 1: a star out of the sky, but this was not

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Speaker 1: an ordinary looking star. There's something strange about this. Like

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Speaker 1: Sophia said, it looked like an egg and something amazing

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Speaker 1: was about to happen. Sophia carefully placed it on a

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Speaker 1: like a nightlight and she fell asleep. She really loved

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Speaker 1: the glow against the ceiling. Early the next morning she

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Speaker 1: was awoken by a sound. More she jumped out of

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Speaker 1: star egg thing that she had found up in the

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Speaker 1: sky had now hatched, and there stood before her a

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Speaker 1: tiny baby Rainbow Dragon. She started screaming and her parents

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Speaker 1: raced in. What, What's wrong? What's wrong? Oh dear, they

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe their eyes. Sofia, stand back. They pulled Sophia

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Speaker 1: away from that Dragon, but the dragon was scared and

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Speaker 1: or something. Can I go help him, said Sophia. Okay,

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Speaker 1: It's okay, little guy, it's okay. Can we keep him?

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Speaker 1: Sophia instantly turned to her parents and begged to keep

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Speaker 1: the Dragon. I totally understand. I would do the same

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Speaker 1: thing if if I found a little dragon, Egg star

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Speaker 1: thing and at Hatchton, I would totally want to keep

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Speaker 1: the Dragon. What about you? Would you want to keep

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Speaker 1: a dragon? Okay, Sophia, but it's up to you to

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Speaker 1: take care of it. It's your responsibility. They said. Perfect,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna Name Him Rainbow Star. And even though that's

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Speaker 1: the end of our story today, it is only just

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Speaker 1: the beginning of Sophia's amazing adventure with her new dragon friend,

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Speaker 1: Rainbow Star. The End. Great job. You listen to all

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Speaker 1: the way to the end, and you know what time

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Speaker 1: it is. It's time for kids. showed. All I want

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Speaker 1: to say hello to Olivia and might go from California,

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Speaker 1: Hana from Texas, Matteo and Devon from New Zealand, Nathaniel

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Speaker 1: and Zachary from Tucson, Arizona, Jack from Texas and Kea

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Speaker 1: from Spokane Washington. I am so glad that you're all

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Speaker 1: on the kids short stories, family and on our spy team.

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Speaker 1: We could not stop Dr Stinky breath and his crew

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Speaker 1: without you, my friends. Well, thank you again for leaving

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Speaker 1: to read those every day. Well, you have a super

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Speaker 1: duper day and I will see you next time. Bye.