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It's Christmas Eve, and you're about to roller coaster up and down the mountains, slip slide over ice fields, teeter across mile-high bridges and be served hot chocolate by singing waiters more astonishing than any you can imagine.

Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost.

Nerdy Peter Parker acquires super powers after a bite from a genetically modified spider.

Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman investigate urban legends, including if a child be lifted off the ground by helium balloons and if ping pong balls can be used to raise a sunken ship.

Presents an introduction to the process of story writing, as the editors of "Wordswork" magazine learn that a story idea can begin anywhere, including characters, settings, or plots.

Learn about sound from the source that creates it to the mechanics of the ear that hears it.

The student editors at "Wordswork" literary magazine set out to identify resources that will help them become better writers.

Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius is loyal to emperor Marcus Aurelius, so when the emperor's son murders his father, Maximus refutes him.

Examines terrorist organizations and incidents around the world from the early twentieth century to the twenty-first, covering such topics as the anarchist movement, violence in Northern Ireland, and the September 11 attacks.

Explains the concepts of motion and balance, looks at the connection between them, and discusses the related topics of gravity, friction, momentum, and equal and opposite reaction.

Uses period accounts and journal excerpts to examine the voyages of Ferdinand Magellan, and describes his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.

Describes Hernan Cortes's and Francisco Pizarro's conquests and explorations in Mexico and Peru, discussing how European diseases aided in the destruction of both the Aztec and Inca civilizations.

Presents an introduction reading, providing information on basic reading skills, phonics, syllables, sight words, and contextual clues.

Introduces fiction and nonfiction comprehension and interpretation skills for the early grades, discussing structural patterns, themes, genres, text organizers, and summaries.

Explains how wind occurs, what jet streams are, how wind is measured, the effects of wind storms, and the use of wind as a source of energy.