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    Shell Swap

    May 01, 2020 2 minutes
    by Nancy Dawson
    text © 2020 by Nancy Dawson

    A LITTLE HERMIT crab living in a tropical forest has a big problem. Her body grows bigger each day, but the sea snail shell she lives in doesn’t. It just gets tighter. To keep growing, she must find a new shell.

    Her next shell has to be the right size,

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