Kids News - Articles for Grade 9

The small town of Hoschton in Northeast Georgia, is being invaded by scarecrows - about 4,800 of them to be exact. At least that was the final count when the deadline for making the mannequins passed at midnight on September 1st....

While car races are fun to watch, they are not the 'greenest' of events. However, 'Grease to Greece' is different. Here, the winning trophy is not awarded to the car that comes first, but to one that earns the most 'Grease Marks' - for collecting fuel, which in this case means used cooking fat from restaurants....

All sculptors have a favorite medium they like to work with. Some like marble, others bronze - for Chris Gilmour, it is the humble cardboard........and glue. For that's all he uses to build amazing sculptures irrespective of whether they are life-size or small replicas...

Eduardo Discoli calls himself a Gaucho (cowboy). However, unlike most cowboys, Eduardo isn't content with just riding on his ranch - Instead this 58-year old Argentinean is horseback riding around the World, and has been doing so since 2001...

Did you know that when the game of Table Tennis was first invented, in the late 1800's it was called Whiff Whaff? While its exact origins are not known, it is believed that the first version of the game was played by British soldiers who were stationed in India and South Africa....

First there was Cinders, a pig, with a mud phobia, and now an Arctic Seal who hates ice and keeps trying to escape to the warm waters of the Mediterranean....

At just nine years of age, Marc Yu from Pasadena, California, has accomplished more than most musicians achieve in their entire life. He has mastered two musical instruments, played the piano at the most prestigious US concerts, garnered a couple of musical scholarships and is now off to London to perform at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall....

On Monday, the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta unveiled its newest resident, Nandi - A 450 pound manta ray, with a wingspan of 9ft. Nandi is extra special given that she is the first and only manta ray in a U.S. aquarium and one of only four on display in the entire world!...

How do you modernize and add room to an old cruise ship? By sawing through the middle, adding a new module, and sealing it all back together. While it sounds almost impossible, this has already been done successfully on three cruise ships over the last four years....