A new generation of young professionals living at the infamous Melrose complex deal with obtaining their own personal goals, drives, and desires, both amongst themselves and others.

Episode 8-10 added Thanks to alushtinka!

Best-selling outdoor humorist McManus ( The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw , LJ 6/15/89) bags another in this collection of yarns featuring irascible woodsman Rancid Crabtree, "Phantom of the Woods" Retch Sweeney, boyhood pal Crazy Eddie, and others of McManus's acquaintance. Also meet hunting dog Strange, dog delinquent, whose prey of choice is year-old roadkill.

Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy - Animal Locomotion

 

This episode of Bill Nye's science series is about the different ways animals get around. As usual, Nye uses lively effects to grab kids' attention, and his jokes and weird camera techniques are all designed to keep the subject interesting. Viewers will see close-ups of a millipede and its multiple feet, animals who fly, and others who leap and jump. He also shows creatures who travel without legs of anykind.

 

Grade Levels: 3-8

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