Serial Stories: Serial stories are chapter stories written by children's authors for the newspaper. They appear each Monday in The Wenatchee World. Guided reading questions for teachers and a make-your-own book kit is provided for each student.

SERIAL STORY 1: Sept. 11 through Dec. 18, 2006.
Hardy Boys: Secret of the Soldier’s Gold, by Franklin W. Dixon
The boys become embroiled in an intriguing mystery involving the buried treasure of a German soldier from World War 11. This story is told in 15 weeks and will appear each Monday in The Wenatchee World. Suggested reading level: Grade 3 and above, and a great read aloud for ages.

SERIAL STORY 2: Jan. 8 through April 30, 2007
Menace on Horse Creek Trail, by Elizabeth McDavid Jones.
While it’s an entertaining read, this story also teaches a great deal of our country’s rich history. It’s about a wagon train headed from Missouri to Oregon with a newspaper article at the center of the intrigue. This story is told in 15 chapters and will appear each Monday in The Wenatchee World. Suggested reading level: Grade 4 and above, and a great read aloud for all ages. Click here to e-mail for more information.

SERIAL STORY 3: Summer serial: June 25 through Aug. 20, 2007.
The Time Bridge Travelers, by Linda Ayers.
The spinning wheel that the children find in the back room of their mother’s antique shop looks like an ordinary spinning wheel. But when a spin of the wheel sends Mandy and Toby hundreds of years into the past, they realize that it is anything but ordinary. What will they do when they are mistaken for a blacksmith’s apprentices? And how can Clint, who was left behind, ever explain this to their mother? This story is told in 9 weeks each Monday in The Wenatchee World. Suggested reading level: Grade 3 and above, and a great read aloud for all ages. Click here to e-mail for more information.

KID SCOOP: Kid Scoop is an award-winning NIE page, which appears in the Wednesday edition of The Wenatchee World. Each week Kid Scoop features two or more NIE lessons that direct readers into other parts of the newspaper. Kid Scoop offers a weekly writing prompt that gives young people an opportunity to be published in newspaper. A teacher newsletter, Teacher Scoop is emailed monthly to teachers with the upcoming writing topics. Suggested for grades 2-8. Check out the Kid Scoop NIE Lesson Library at www.kidscoop.com.