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Pine School Pals: Best Friend Trouble

Meet the Pine School second-grade class. Ava is having a problem. Find out what happens in "Best Friend Trouble."

By Laine Falk
From the February 2026 Issue

Learning Objective: Students will practice finding the problem and solution in a fiction story.

Lexile® measure: 340L
Featured Skill: Problem/solution

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Front row: Niki, Sara, Ben, Ava, Riley, Tate

Back row: Ms. Perez, Nora, Theo, Jack, Jun, Zoey, Malik

With Ava and Riley

Pine School Pals:
Best Friend Trouble

By Laine Falk

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