Shawn Seles
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Mami surprises Alma with a pair of brand-new soccer cleats. Now Alma must choose: play her best soccer game and get her AMAZING new shoes dirty or protect her cleats by staying on the sidelines. Then, stuck inside on a beautiful day, Alma, Rafia and André make up a new game called Star Ball. It's a BLAST at first, but her friends don't want to play anymore when Alma keeps changing the rules.
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Junior really wants to find a book about a Puerto Rican boy, dinosaurs, and the Bronx, but Alma and André can't find any stories that have all three at the bookstore. Luckily Alma has an idea: what if they help Junior make his own book? Then, Alma and Eddie want to surprise Nestor and Gloria for their anniversary, but when Gloria gets called into work unexpectedly, their plans might be a bust!
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After rescuing Junior's paper tube tower from collapsing, Alma decides to open her own traveling fix-it business: Alma's Rescue Repair! But Alma can only carry so much in her toolbelt and running back home for fix-it items is exhausting. Then, when Howard tells Junior he can't play water tag, Alma must figure out how to make her brother feel better and how to tell Howard how she feels.
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When Mami's former music student, Sonny Soto, invites Alma's family to his big concert, Alma excitedly invites her friends to come along without asking first. Then, When Alma gets creeped out by a bearded dragon, she realizes that with enough information, it's not as scary as she thought.
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When Chacho chews holes in the socks that Alma was planning to donate for the Community Center's Bomba Drum Fundraiser, she has to figure out a way to transform the holey mess into a new success. Then, Alma offers to record Papi's animal show while he's busy and recruits her friends and their talented pets to help. But Alma keeps messing up on the camera. Will this week's show be cancelled?
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When Alma and Rafia find a bird's nest in the park's basketball hoop, they recruit their friends to help keep it safe. But when it's time to go home, Alma tries to think of a way to protect the nest, even when her friends aren't around. Then, after cleaning up the playground, Alma and her friends go undercover and follow the litter clues to find out where the trash is coming from.
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Alma invites Howard to play in the park's drum circle. After searching for the perfect drum, Howard settles on a bucket drum. But when the bucket goes missing, what will he play? And Mami and Papi offer to give Alma and Junior toy tickets in exchange for doing extra work around the house. When Alma gets Junior to help her with a job, she pays him less than she got. Why does she feel bad?
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The Kids' Club must vote on how to spend the money from Mrs. Ramirez's donation. But when Alma wants everyone to vote for new board games and André wants new art supplies, it's a tie! Who is the missing vote? Alma and Harper decide to open a lemonade stand on a hot day. But it gets to be too much work and too much of a mess when they add more and more drinks to their menu.
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Beto invites Alma and her friends over to break the piñata his Abuela made for him. But when Alma sees he looks hesitant, she wonders if he really wants to break it. Then, Alma donates her toy octopus at the Community Center's Free Table. But when she sees Lucas playing with her old toy, she wants it back.