<p class="krtHeadline">The family cat was the first to discover the Painted Lady butterfly that was flitting around in our Insect Lore Butterfly Pavilion. Within the next two days, we had six butterflies in our netted cages and I had two daughters fighting over whose butterflies ...
Captain Underpants and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" led the way for a whole new type of fiction for kids: graphic novels. Of course, your parents may not like to see you reading books that have more pictures than words. They may complain, saying, "They're just comic books!"But what if your mom saw ...
The Summer Olympics are over, and it's time to salute the big winners: the United States women.The U.S. team won the most medals of all countries at the 2012 Games. And female athletes played a big role in that achievement. Let's look at the numbers.The U.S. women won 29 of the team's 46 gold ...
Many kids have summer jobs. Maybe they water a neighbor's garden or take care of pets. It's a good way to earn money and learn responsibility during the long summer months. So 14-year-old Dewey and his older sister, Lil, are ready and willing to operate the family's bike-repair business while ...
Get a $5 bill from your piggy bank (or ask a parent if you can borrow one). A $5 bill lasts for almost four years, until the ink starts wearing off and it gets crumpled up and loses its texture. Banks return old bills to the Federal Reserve, which then destroys them. In 2006, the Bureau of ...
It's almost September, and the baseball pennant races are heating up. Washington fans might need a refresher course on pennant races. After all, no Major League Baseball team from Washington has played a postseason game since the Senators lost the World Series in 1933.Even the team closest to ...
