Science Stories For Kids

A troop of Boy Scouts, camped by a Civil War battlefield, discover a rusty knife. Late at night, the ghost of a Confederate soldier limps toward them and they flee. They discover that the knife was the one the soldier used to kill a former Union soldier.

With their dog, twin sisters snoop around an abandoned farmhouse that had been the scene of a woman's murder months earlier. Her missing husband is the main suspect. The girls sneak inside and the dog freaks and runs off to the barn. They follow and see a glowing ball with a hideous face float out of the barn and hover near a tree. Authorities dig around the tree and find the husband's body.

While two kids are fishing in a narrow ravine, a strange boy in wet clothes warns them of danger. They ignore him, but he persists. Suddenly a flash flood sweeps the boy away and the other two kids barely escape. They run for help only to learn that the boy who warned them had died two years earlier in a flash flood.

Twelve-year-old Jeff and genetically engineered spy dog Chipper are on the run from the mysterious and sinister organization known only as The Institute, with help from Harry, the summer guest at Jeff's aunt's fishing cabins. Due to a combination of bravery, luck, and some of Chipper's more useful modifications, they've managed to evade their pursuers so far. But The Institute is closing in and Chipper and Jeff will have to keep one step ahead if they want to stay alive.... Harry seems to have a plan to keep them hidden, but now even he seems to be acting suspiciously.

While baby-sitting for an infant, a girl is awakened by a strange elderly woman who says the baby is choking. The girl rushes into the nursery and pulls out a necklace and locket. The woman disappears. The girl opens the locket and sees a picture of the woman.

In the style of Poe and Seuss, these five vivid yet dark and twisted fables will send shivers down your spine. "Gwendolyn Witch" has a magic crystal that loses its clarity. "The Tooth Wraith" seeps into your bedroom window at night searching for cavities. "The Ghost of the Canyon" is the unsettled spirit of a girl from long ago. "The Playmate" is an unseen child, heard yet never found. In "Gnomes G'Lee", gruesome creatures dead set on defending their garden.

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" began as a story told by Englishman Charles Lutwidge Dodgson to three children in a boat, one of which was called Alice and enjoyed it so much she asked him to write it down for her. He did so, under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. He was thus releasing a striking tale of fantasy, games with logic, and a wildly original play on narrative structure. Today, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is the sixth best-selling single-volume book of all time.