The biggest "family" in the world is the United Nations. It has more than 150 members---almost every nation in the world. Each nation sends people to represent it at United Nations headquarters in...
It’s the law!
> France In France, a group called the Parliament makes the laws. Each family has rules. Parents make them. Brothers and sisters sometimes get a chance to decide what the rules will be. Once the...
Follow the leader
A school has a principal. A football team has a quarterback. An army has a general. All these people are leaders. It's their job to run the school, or the team, or the army. Countries have leaders,...
Pulling together
A rowing team is a group of people working together. If each man pulled his oar when he felt like it, the team would never get anywhere---much less win a race. So, like all teams, they have a...
We wait our turn
Tom was visiting his cousin Colin in London, England. It was Saturday. The boys were on their way to the Tower of London to see the royal jewels. At the bus stop, Colin got in line behind the other...
Do we have to?
"Aw, come on! Let's play one more game." "We can't. We have to go home now." David and Betty didn't want to leave. They were having too much fun. But helping to set the table is a rule in their...
Living Together
What is the first thing you must do before you can play a new game? You must learn the rules. Rules let the players know what to do. If all the players played the game their own way, the game would...
Change or die!
Eohippus Scientists think the eohippus was the ancestor of the modern horse. The eohippus was a small animal that had toes instead of hoofs. Suppose that all the milkweed plants in the world...
Natural enemies
Most animals have natural enemies---other animals that like to eat them. It's night on a desert in the United States. A wolf spider is hunting. The spider is the natural enemy of beetles and other...
Keeping things even
Once, several thousand deer and a few dozen mountain lions lived together in a part of Arizona. Each year, the mountain lions ate hundreds of deer. But, during the year, hundreds of new deer were...
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