Building a Healthy School
Students at schools in New York City are getting involved in Pennies of Promise, a fund-raising campaign to build a new school in Appalachia.
Month: June 2006
The Birth of an Award-Winning Story: A Talk with Author Kathy Price
Poet Kathy Price published her first children’s book, The Bourbon Street Musicians, in 2002.
How Do They Do That? An Idea to a New Book
Book designers and illustrators are artists who decide how each page of a book is going to look. Book designers also create covers.
Book Review: Button Girl
Once upon a time, before buttons were born, people used thorns, sticks and bones to keep their blouses on and their trousers up.
Book Review: 100 Things Guys Need To Know
What’s an appropriate way for boys to resolve conflicts and handle stress? Shouldn’t guys have the right to show their emotions?
Book Review: Heat
You know that kid in Little League who can throw what seems like 800 miles per hour? Michael Arroyo, the lead character in Mike Lupica’s book Heat, is that kid.
Book Review: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
This story about four girls who learn to live apart for the first time is impossible to put down.
Book Review: Chew On This
Did you know that chickens are sometimes thrown against walls as a form of slaughter?
Try this Eggsperiment
This is a chemical reaction. The vinegar combines with the molecules of the egg shell to form a gas: carbon dioxide (CO2).
Try a Street Game: Boxball
Boxball is like a small version of tennis or ping-pong played on the sidewalk.
