Kids News - Articles for Grade 9

As we get ready to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Veterans Day, we thought it would be interesting to investigate the origins of this holiday and the reason it is always celebrated on November 11th....

The annual pumpkin festival in Ludwigsburg, Germany is the Ferrari of all such festivals. Held from September to November each year, it is reputed to be the largest pumpkin festival in the World....

For the next five days, the tiny town of Pushkar in Northern India, will become the hub of festivities as thousands of pilgrims, tourists and camels gather here for the annual Camel Festival....

The Madagascar gang is back in the theatres - Moving it, in their new sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa are Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo and Melman, the Giraffe, who all continue from where they had left off in the first movie....

Three-week old Pingu, an African Penguin was born with a slight disadvantage. His brother was a bit of a bully who ate all of Pingu's fish. At first, the Zookeepers at the Living Coasts in Torquay, Devon, ignored the problem, thinking the siblings would be able to sort things out....

A scrabble game usually conjures images of a quiet evening by the fireplace, where the most excitement is a heated argument about whether the word composed is legitimate. However, the pictures below will change your perception of the game forever....

Robo flautist or WF4IV (Waseda Flutist No. 4 Refined IV), as he likes to be called, is an amazing musician. Wearing just a dapper black hat, this bony, all metal flute player, plays complex scores perfectly and even interacts and engages with his audience....

Passengers on this train have taken the term All Aboard, to a whole new level - And they are not doing it for a great photo opportunity either. All of them are actually going to hang on to their dear lives while the train chugs along and takes them to their destination, a few hundred miles away....

Five-year old Emelia Fawbert and her dad James, were out on a group fossil hunting trip at a newly excavated site in Gloucestershire, England, when she noticed something stuck in the mud. Using a trowel, she and her dad gently excavated an almost perfect fossil....