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The Lightning Thief is a best-selling book by Rick Riordan. It has been translated into more than 40 languages. In 2010, it was made into a movie. Now the story of Percy Jackson’s quest to find Zeus’s lightning bolt is…
Disney’s Frozen was one of the most successful animated films of all time. Six years after its release, fans will get to see the Frozen crew again. Frozen II hits theaters November 22. The story picks up three years after…
The Casagrandes is a new show on Nickelodeon. It’s a spin-off of the series The Loud House, which follows the Loud family. In The Casagrandes, Loud family friends Bobby and Ronnie Anne move away and have new adventures in a…
Marvel turns from comic-book heroes to real ones in Marvel’s Hero Project. The new series on Disney+ will tell the story of 20 kids who are working to improve their communities. At the end of each episode, Marvel illustrators create…
LA LIMA, Honduras— It’s 9:00 on a steamy August morning. Students at the Gabriela Mistral school playfully line up. They stand between two yellow cords in the school courtyard. A volunteer from the Honduran Red Cross calls out a question.…
For the past year or so, the news has been filled with stories about migrants coming to the U.S. from Central America. I wanted to understand why people were leaving their home countries. So in August, I went to Honduras…
American astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have made history. On October 18, they completed the first-ever all-female spacewalk. The two floated outside the International Space Station (ISS). They repaired part of its power grid. The spacewalk lasted seven hours…
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered 30 ancient coffins. The coffins contain well-preserved mummies. This is the largest discovery of its kind since the 19th century. Details of the find were announced on October 19. The wooden coffins are estimated to…
Movies about rock climbing show people reaching the highest peaks in the world. But you don’t need to climb a mountain to feel the excitement. Climbing gyms are opening across the United States. The sport is growing more popular by…
In an ancient folktale, a giant rock blocks the entrance to a cave that’s filled with treasure. A door appears only for those who speak a secret phrase: “Open, sesame!” This is an early example of a password. Passwords have…
What do producing a hit pop song, operating a Mars rover, and making instant ice cream have in common? They take science, technology, engineering, math—and women. The new CBS TV show Mission Unstoppable asks game-changing women in STEM careers to…
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, a picture book published in 2016, featured the stories of 100 amazing women. Now it’s a chapter-book series. Each Rebel Girls book will take a closer look at an extraordinary woman. The first two…
On August 30, college-sports fans celebrated College Colors Day. A fourth grader at Altamonte Elementary School, in Florida, wanted to show support for the University of Tennessee (U.T.) Volunteers. He didn’t have one of the team’s signature orange shirts. So…
A wildfire began on October 10 in Southern California. More than 100,000 people were forced to leave their homes. The Saddleridge Fire tore across more than 12 square miles around Los Angeles. It damaged at least 58 buildings. The fire…
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 was awarded on October 11. It went to Abiy Ahmed Ali. He is prime minister of Ethiopia. That’s a country in Africa. Berit Reiss-Andersen leads the Norwegian Nobel Committee. She praised Abiy’s “efforts to…
Not long ago, toy stores had separate aisles for boys and girls. People spoke out against this, and retailers listened. Target, for example, got rid of boys’ and girls’ toy sections in 2015. Then people started paying closer attention to…
In 2012, Topher White visited a wildlife sanctuary in Indonesia. He was hiking through the rain forest when he came across a man cutting down a huge tree. White was watching illegal logging in action. Illegal logging is a big…
In 2014, Disney’s Maleficent showed there was more to the Sleeping Beauty villain than evil spells. Over the course of that movie, Princess Aurora grew close to her godmother, Maleficent, as she learned more about her. Now the story…
The Okay Witch is a graphic novel about 13-year-old Moth Hush. Moth loves anything to do with witchcraft, and she often feels out of place in her hometown, Founder’s Bluff. On Halloween, Moth finds out she’s half witch. But she…
UNITED NATIONS, New York— It’s Saturday, September 21, at 10 a.m. Five people are seated at the center of the Trusteeship Council Chamber. Four of them are youth climate activists. The fifth is United Nations (U.N.) secretary-general António Guterres. Typically,…
