Law For Kids

The Treasure Cave: A Story of Courage, Adventure, and Self-Belief "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." — Joseph Campbell Many people go through life never discovering the rewards that lie just beyond their fears. From childhood, we are often taught to play it safe, to follow the path set before us, and to avoid the unknown. But what if we could change that for our children? What if we could teach them to embrace adventure, courage, and the power of self-belief? This is the story of Gertie—a young girl who dares to step outside her comfort zone and seek something ...

On November 24, 1971, an unidentified man hijacked an airplane that was flying from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington. He demanded $200,000 and told a flight attendant that he had weapons. After stopping in Seattle, the hijacker was given the money and he released the attendants. But he demanded that the pilots stay on-board, refuel, and fly him to Mexico City. Just thirty minutes after the plane took off, the man jumped out of the aircraft and parachuted away...never to be seen or heard from again. Did he escape with the money? Did he even survive the jump?

Have you ever heard a bizarre law and thought, that can’t possibly be true? Is it genuine? Was it ever in existence or just an urban myth that became so embellished over time? There are surprisingly, a great many laws still in existence on the statute books today that would make your jaw drop. Whilst bizarre as these laws may now seem to us, it begs the question, are we in fact, unknowingly breaking these laws on a regular basis?

It’s Career Day at the Brite Star School, and the class gets a visit from Brett’s parents. In What’s the Law?, Brett’s father, who is a lawyer, and Brett’s mother, who is a judge, help the class understand the basics of the court system.

Joseph Silver Hawk Argent is on the run. He's running from the cops and an ancient prophecy that he doesn't want anything to do with. He's seventeen, a leader of the Los Caballeros street gang and even though he's Native American, he doesn't want any part of where he came from. A Holy man has pegged Joseph or Cheetah, as his friends call him, as a warrior who lived during the days of Crazy Horse but Joseph lives in New York. He wants nothing to do with his past or a past life that he doesn't care about. Frank Belger is the cop who only cares about one thing. He's determined to catch the ...

Jack Ross is a troubled yet irresistibly charismatic upperclassman. Despite her parents' warnings about the dangers of dating an unsaved boy, Linda Penner finds herself magnetically drawn to him. Meanwhile, Kent Gilbert, even though he lived with the Orlises, gets entangled in Jack’s gang of thieves. But when their world falls apart, both Kent and Linda must confront their choices. They discover who their true friends are and what complete surrender to Christ means.

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction listeners and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. This volume features Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.

What body parts can many lizards lose and grow back? Oddly enough, a lizard can grow back it’s tail after it has been completely lost or cut off! If you like interesting and interactive trivia questions like this, then keep reading...We know trivia is fun, especially for kids, but we also know that learning new things and gaining new knowledge on topics you love is one of the most enjoyable parts about it. We’ve made it our number one priority to create new, interesting, and intriguing questions in order to keep you interested and always wanting more.

In A Trip to the Courthouse, Officer Dan takes the class on a trip through the courthouse and jail. Guess who ends up on the inside looking out?

A man provides library services to kids in a small Iowa town and get arrested for it.

Temple of Doom: And Other Stories of Kids and Crime, by the award-winning journalist Mike Sager, is a pocket collection of five true stories—first published in Rolling Stone, GQ, and Esquire—that illuminate the tragic intersection between underage kids and adult crimes and punishments. In the title story, police are baffled when eight Thai Buddhist monks and one nun are killed execution-style in a temple outside Phoenix—the worst mass murder in Arizona history. Nobody wants to believe the crime has been committed by a pair of gung-ho ROTC students from the local high school. In “The...