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Big Idea | Mythology | Specials | Turning Points | Now We're Cooking | Taste Tests | Natural Wonder
Book Beat | Schmave's Elevator | Money | American Journey

 

Big Idea Issue Availability  
9-117-9Download CD
Advertising6-8Download
Affirmative Action4-1Download
Amnesty International3-12
Animal Rights2-6
Animals: Can they feel happy? 5-1 Download
Beauty4-2Download
Berlin Wall1-1
Bosnia War3-5
Boys & Girls, Who Wears the Pants?2-9
Buy Now! Free! 8-9 Download CD
China, New9-3Download CD
Christopher Columbus2-3
Cigarettes, Smoke & Us1-7, 4-5 Download 1, 2
Civil War6-11Download
Comics, Understanding 9-5 Download CD
Competition6-10Download
Crime & Punishment3-8
Cults & Waco, Texas2-11
Cyberspace Hype4-6Download
Depression, The Great5-10Download
Differences2-9
Dinosaurs7-11Download CD
Discipline2-7
Dreams4-4Download
Easter Island8-7Download CD
Enron7-12Download CD
Extraterrestrials1-6
Failure6-2Download
Fair Trade 10-6 Download CD
Fathers in the Wild7-6Download CD
Fear5-4Download
First Amendment6-6Download
Food5-2Download
Freedom7-10Download CD
Getting Good8-5Download CD
Ghosts2-4
Girls & Boys, Who Wears the Pants?2-9
Global Warming9-4Download CD
Great Depression, The5-10Download
Great Pyramid, The8-10Download CD
Greed5-3Download
Guns1-9
Harry Potter, Science & Magic8-12Download CD
Hikari Oe7-4Download CD
Hiroshima4-3Download
History: Is Our History 'True'? 9-8 Download CD
Home Schools5-11Download
Homeless7-5Download CD
Human Spirit 10-7 Download CD
Hunger2-8
Iditarod: Ultimate Challenge4-7Download
Immigration 3-11, 10-1 Download 1, 2 CD
Information Superhighway3-7
Intelligence3-9
Kosovo & Columbine6-5Download
Laughter8-1Download CD
Longitude (Sports) 7-7, 7-8 Download 1, 2 CD 1, 2
Mars9-1, 9-2 Download 1, 2 CD 1, 2
Middle East, The8-2Download CD
Mind3-9
Moral Courage 9-12 Download CD
Nature's Hydrologists 10-9 Download CD
New China9-3Download CD
News3-6
Numbers & Risk6-4Download
Oil7-3Download CD
Olympic Games4-9Download
Outer Space5-6Download
Owls, Fish & Jobs2-10
Parents, Talking with5-12Download
Patriotism3-1Download
Peace Corps 10-2 Download CD
People & Prejudice2-5
Petroleum: Big Oil, Little Oil7-3Download CD
Political Conventions4-11Download
Political Parties7-2Download CD
Politics4-8Download
Politics and the Olympics 10-10 Download
Pottermania7-1Download CD
Power and Politics6-3Download
Pyramid, the Great 9-7 Download CD
Rainforests1-8
Reaching Out 9-9 Download CD
Recession2-2
Risk6-4Download
Rivalry, Sibling5-5Download
Road to Mars 9-1, 9-2 Download 1, 2 CD 1, 2
Robotics5-9Download
Saddam and Other Bullies8-6Download CD
Saint and the Princess5-7Download
School: Why Go?3-3
Science and Belief 9-10 Download CD
Shock & Awe8-8Download CD
Sibling Rivalry5-5Download
Smoking1-7, 4-5 Download 1, 2
Soviet Union Power Play1-11
Space, Outer5-6Download
Sports: How Hard? How Early?8-11Download CD
Spying and Privacy 9-11 Download CD
Steroids and Ethics 9-6 Download CD
Stock Market6-1Download
Supreme Court1-4
Talking with Mom and Pop5-12Download
Television3-2
Tiananmen Square4-10Download
Tibet: Forbidden Kingdom6-12Download
Time Travel8-3, 8-4 Download 1, 2 CD 1, 2
Tobacco1-7, 4-5 Download 1, 2
Tomorrow6-7Download
Trade 10-3, 10-4, 10-5 Download 1, 2, 3 CD 1, 2, 3
Trade, Fair 10-6 Download CD
Violence & Television3-2
Virtual Reality2-12
Waco, Texas2-11
Water

10-8, 10-11

Download 1, 2, 3 CD 1, 2, 3
We Are What We Eat5-2Download
Welfare3-4
Work5-8Download
Working Kids 5-12 Download

 

Mythology Issue Availability  
Daedelus & the Minotaur3-9  
Echo & Narcissus3-7
Phaeton's Golden Chariot3-11

SpecialsIssue Availability  
Deep Blue vs. Humankind4-7Download  
Dreams in the Cornfield1-12
Goodbye, Mr. Air3-2
Lincoln Theatre Spotlights1-1
So Long, Superman2-8

Turning Points Issue Availability  
Adams, Ansel8-8Download CD
Anthony, Susan B.5-11Download
Beethoven, Ludwig2-11
Bell, Gertrude10-11 DownloadCD
Bly, Nellie1-6
Bonaparte, Napoleon5-5Download
Bourke-White, Margaret 10-8 Download CD
Braille, Louis1-8
Brown, John 9-9 Download CD
Bull, Sitting 9-11 Download CD
Byrd, Admiral Richard 5-7, 10-10 Download 1, 2
Carson, Rachel6-1Download
Carter, Howard2-7
Chavez,Cesar3-2
Chief Joseph5-2Download
Cook, Captain7-2Download CD
Cousteau, Jacques 10-9 Download CD
Crockett, David2-9
Curie, Marie4-6Download
Dahl, Roald7-7Download CD
Darwin, Charles5-12Download
Dickinson,Emily2-10
Disney, Walt1-11
Donner Party2-9
Dr. Suess4-10Download
Duncan, Isadora3-10
Earhart, Amelia7-6Download CD
Edison, Thomas1-4
Einstein, Albert6-10Download
Elephant Man7-1Download CD
Ellis Island1-3
Fossey, Dian4-4Download
Frank, Anne2-8
Franklin, Benjamin3-7
Ford, Henry 9-12 Download CD
Frost, Robert6-5Download
Ghandi, Mohandas7-12Download CD
Goddard, Robert1-7
Grey, Zane7-9Download CD
Guthrie, Woody8-9 Download CD
Hubble, Edwin 9-5 Download CD
Hurston, Zora Neale3-12
Ishi3-9
Jefferson, Thomas5-3Download
Joan of Arc3-3
Johnson, Lady Bird 10-4 Download CD
Jones, Mother8-11Download CD
Joseph, Chief5-2Download
Keller, Helen4-8Download
Kennedy, John8-12Download CD
King, Martin Luther4-5Download
Leopold, Aldo 10-5 Download CD
Lewis, Merriwether 4-12 Download
Lili'uokalani, Queen 8-5Download CD
Lincoln, Abraham2-3
Lindbergh, Charles6-6Download
Lovelace, Ada8-1Download CD
Markham, Beryl7-8Download CD
Matisse, Henri 10-2 Download CD
McCarthy Era5-8Download
Mead, Margaret5-6Download
Meir, Golda6-7Download
Mendes, Chico3-11
Michelangelo7-11Download CD
Mille, Agnes de 9-7 Download CD
Morgan, Julia7-10Download CD
Muir, John4-3Download
Murrow, Edward 9-10 Download CD
Neruda, Pablo 10-1 Download CD
Nightingale, Florence6-4Download
Oakley, Annie5-4Download
O'Keeffe, Georgia3-5
Parks, Rosa7-3Download CD
Pocahontas4-2Download
Polo, Marco5-10Download
Pony Express8-6Download CD
Potter, Beatrix3-8
Presley, Elvis2-5
Queen Lili'uokalani8-5Download CD
Ripley, Robert3-6
Robinson, Jackie2-2
Rockwell, Norman9-4Download CD
Roosevelt, Eleanor6-12Download
Roosevelt, Franklin2-12
Roosevelt, Theodore6-2Download
Sacagawea2-4
Sagan, Carl 10-7 Download CD
Salem Witch Trials5-1Download
Salk, Jonas3-4
Sasaki, Sadako8-7Download CD
Scholl, Sophie5-9Download
Schultz, Charles6-11Download
Schweitzer, Albert4-1Download
Shackleton, Ernest8-2Download CD
Shakespeare, William 8-4Download CD
Stowe, Harriet Beecher7-5Download CD
Suess, Dr.4-10Download
Sullivan, Anne4-8Download
Tecumseh9-3Download CD
Tesla, Nikola 10-3 Download CD
Thoreau, Henry David9-1Download CD
Titanic4-9Download
Truman, Harry6-9Download
Truth, Sojourner4-11Download
Tubman, Harriet1-9
Twain, Mark4-7Download
Van Gogh, Vincent5-2Download
Verne, Jules8-10Download CD
Washington, George 9-8 Download CD
Whitman, Walt 9-6 Download CD
Wilder, Laura Ingalls3-1Download
Williams, Ted8-3Download CD
Wright, Orville and Wilbur9-2Download CD

Now We're CookingIssue Availability  
Brownies2-3
Chocolate Chip Cookies4-5Download  
Egg Scramble4-11Download
French Toast3-8
Pancakes2-7
Pie Crusts1-8
Pie Filling1-10
Pizza3-1Download

Taste TestsIssue Availability  
Bubble Gum Taste Test3-6
Chocolate Chip Cookies Taste Test4-4Download  
Cola Taste Test2-11
Potato Chips2-9

Natural WonderIssue Availability  
Albatross6-2Download
Alligators5-8Download
Ants4-3Download
Bats1-9
Bees2-9
Buffalo4-10Download
Butterflies, Monarch5-2Download
Camels3-6
Cicadas 7-3, 9-2Download 1, 2 CD 1, 2
Cougars8-12Download CD
Coyotes1-7
Crows2-4
Deer 9-11 Download CD
Dolphins8-3Download CD
Elephants2-5
Falcons 9-5 Download CD
Fireflies6-7Download
Frogs1-4
Giant Pandas5-6Download
Giraffe4-8Download
Gorillas6-10Download
Grasshoppers7-11Download CD
Grizzly Bear4-5Download
Hippopotamus5-10Download
Hummingbirds 10-6 Download CD
Hyaenas3-11
Kangaroos3-1Download
Koalas5-12Download
Komodo Dragons 4-12 Download
Monarch Butterflies5-2Download
Mosquitoes6-8Download
Octopus6-4Download
Owls1-8
Parrots1-11
Penguins2-7
Pigs2-2
Platypus 10-2 Download CD
Raccoon7-1Download CD
Rain1-2
Raindrops1-2
Ravens 9-9 Download CD
Rhinoceros2-4
Salmon6-11Download
Sea Horses8-7Download CD
Sea Lions8-6Download CD
Sea Otters7-5Download CD
Sea Turtles 9-7 Download CD
Sharks7-12Download CD
Sloths3-3
Slugs9-3Download CD
Snakes4-1Download
Snow Crystals 10-8 Download CD
Volcanoes1-6
Vultures7-7Download CD
Walruses8-9 Download CD
Weasels8-2Download CD
Whales3-9
Wild Horses5-4Download

Book BeatIssueAvailability
Gill, Shelley4-7Download  
McKenzie, Ellen2-6
Morey, Walt2-1
Sachs, Marilyn1-11
Thomas, Anika2-4
Yolan, Jane4-3Download

Schmave's ElevatorIssue Availability  
Account Book, The7-9Download CD
Astounding Events 10-9 Download CD
Belief 3-12, 9-1 Download CD
Big Brother4-10Download
Coach4-2Download
Courage 4-12 Download
Doctoring 10-1 Download CD
Effort2-4
Elected 10-3 Download CD
Excuses1-8
Family5-10Download
Finzel Swamp9-1Download CD
Flying2-6
Fortunes4-4Download
Friends4-6Download
Gift, The5-8Download
Glory Girl and the Nose 10-5 Download CD
Going Ahead7-5Download CD
Happiness Machine3-2
Hearts1-6
Heroes1-2
Honor8-9 Download CD
Hope8-5Download CD
Important Stuff6-2Download
Inquirers, The6-11Download
Labels1-12
Leash7-1Download CD
Levels8-1Download CD
Lie, The6-9Download
Limits1-10
Maybe, The 9-5 Download CD
Me, Myself & I8-3Download CD
Mistake, The7-7Download CD
Money5-2Download
Mother's Day2-10
Movie Man5-12Download
Neighbor3-8
Nelleson Blockade1-1
Pies 10-11 DownloadCD
Planting Madge7-3Download CD
Power5-6Download
Promises2-12
Relatives7-11Download CD
Secret Truths6-4Download
Sign, the 9-9 Download CD
Specialties5-4Download
Strength2-2
Surrender 10-7 Download CD
Talleyman 9-11 Download CD
Teacher3-4
Thanks1-4
Thinking4-8Download
Today & Tomorrow3-6
Treasure3-10
Trust2-8
Us9-3Download CD
Wishing 9-7 Download CD

MoneyIssue Availability  
Accounting3-8
Banking1-2
Barter1-8
Budget Decisions2-9
Budgets2-7
Charge Cards1-5
Checks1-4
Checks4-6Download  
Coin Collecting4-2Download
Currency2-12
Deals3-5
Deficit Spending2-6
Demand1-12
Discounts3-1Download
Garage Sales4-11Download
Inflation3-2
Insurance2-3
Interest1-3
Monopoly3-6
Mortgages3-7
Prices1-9
Salaries2-5
Sales Tax4-4Download
Social Security2-11
Stocks1-6
Stocks1-7
Street Fairs3-10
Supply1-10
Taxes2-8
Tipping3-12
Worth3-4

American JourneyIssue Availability  
Alaska, Circle2-1
Anywhere, Slowly9-4Download CD
Appalachia5-1Download
Appalachian Trail, The6-12Download
Arizona Desert 9-12 Download CD
British Columbia, Salt Spring Island8-10Download CD
California, Loma Mar4-2Download
California, San Francisco2-12
Camden, Maine8-1Download CD
Cape Cod5-11Download
Circle, Alaska2-1
Disneyland, On the Road to7-6Download CD
District of Columbia1-9
Erwin, Tennessee8-8Download CD
Everglades, Florida 6-6, 10-11 Download 1, 2CD
Four Corners2-10
Gloucester, Massachusetts1-4
Gothenberg, Nebraska6-6Download
Grand Canyon, Inside2-5
Grand Canyon, Outside2-4
Grinnell, Iowa7-4Download CD
Hamlet, Washington4-11Download
Hawaii, Kauai2-7
Illinois, Woodstock7-2Download CD
Iowa, Grinnell7-4Download CD
Kauai, Hawaii2-7
Kentucky, Port Royal3-5
Kiawah Island7-8Download CD
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania1-6
Loma Bar, California4-2Download
Louisiana, New Orleans8-6Download CD
Mackinac Island, Michigan6-3Download
Maine, Camden8-1Download CD
Maine, northern interior5-9Download
Massachusetts, Gloucester1-4
Massachusetts, Newburyport7-10Download CD
Mexico 9-10 Download CD
Michigan, Mackinac Island6-3Download
Minnesota, Northern6-9Download
Minnesota, Rouseau2-2
Mississippi River6-1Download
Mississippi4-9Download
Moab, Utah3-12
Montana4-4Download
Nebraska, Gothenberg6-6Download
Nevada, Virginia City3-2
New Hampshire, White Mountains3-8
New Orleans, Louisiana8-6Download CD
New York, New York2-6
New York, Sagaponack5-5Download
Newburyport, Massachusetts7-10Download CD
North Carolina, Duck3-10
Duck, North Carolina3-10
Olympic Peninsula, Washington 9-8 Download CD
Oregon, Portland1-11
Osh Kosh, Wisconsin1-8
Pennsylvania, Lancaster County1-6
Port Royal, Kentucky3-5
Portland, Oregon1-11
Rouseau, Minnesota2-2
Route 668-4Download CD
Sagaponack, New York5-5Download
Salt Lake City, Utah6-8Download
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia8-10Download CD
San Antonio, Texas1-7
San Francisco, California2-12
Santa Cruz, California 10-4 Download CD
Sonoran Desert, Arizona5-3Download
South Carolina, Kiawah Island7-8Download CD
South Dakota6-5Download
Tennessee, Erwin8-8Download CD
Texas, San Antonio1-7
Utah, Moab3-12
Utah, Salt Lake City6-8Download
Virginia City, Nevada3-2
Washington, Hamlet4-11Download
White Mountains, New Hampshire3-8
Wisconsin, Osh Kosh1-8
Woodstock, Illinois7-2Download CD
Yellowstone 9-6 Download CD
Yosimite 10-10 Download  
 

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