Rory's Funny Story
  • By Janice Graham
  • Duration: 0:03:23
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Rory thinks nothing funny ever happens to him until he tells the class about his weekend.

Seconds from Winning
  • By Gordon McAlpine
  • Duration: 0:04:48
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Paxton won't be satisfied with second place in the go-kart race today...but can he beat Mark who has more sponsors and a better kart?

Stuck by Luck
  • By John Samony
  • Duration: 0:04:53
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

When a boy's lucky rabbit foot drops into a vase on display in an art gallery he's left attached to the vase during the auction.

Talent Night
  • By Annie Gage
  • Duration: 0:01:40
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Benjamin's skill helps make Talent Night a success.

Building a Better Shortcut
  • By Elizabeth Thwing
  • Duration: 0:05:12
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Ben learns how a cruise ship passes through the Panama Canal using a water elevator called a lock.

Champions of Hibernation
  • By Alison Pearce Stevens, Ph.D.
  • Duration: 0:03:51
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

This article is about fat dormice or "seven sleepers" animals related to squirrels. They hibernate for seven or eight months of the year slowing their breathing and heart rates to...

Changing-Up Your Pitching
  • By C.G. Morelli
  • Duration: 0:04:15
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Find out how to throw a circle change-up.

Map for Columbus, the Traveling Bear
  • By Sharlene P. Nelson
  • Duration: 0:05:43
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Article about a black bear named Columbus who traveled more than 10 miles amongst people in Washington state before being captured and moved to the wild.

Creating a Symphony of Steel
  • By Cheryl M. Reifsnyder
  • Duration: 0:03:47
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

How a poor kid from Trinidad developed what became the only new instrument of the century: the steel pan drum. A bio of musician/drum maker Ellie Mannette.

Dueling Dinosaurs
  • By Sharon Pochron
  • Duration: 0:03:20
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Article about Triceratops' horns and their purpose. Triceratops had a sharp horn growing above each eye and a smaller horn growing in the center of its nose. Scientists wonder...

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