Central Kansas Library System

"Andrew Carnegie funded fifty-nine public libraries in Kansas in the early 20th century, but it was frontier women who organized waffle suppers, minstrel shows, and women's baseball games to buy books to fill them. Now, a century later, Angelina returns to her father's hometown of New Hope to complete her dissertation on the Carnegie libraries, just as Traci and Gayle arrive in town, Traci as an artist-in-residence at the renovated Carnegie Arts Center...

While on their way to Weatherama Amusement Park to attend the Wild Weather Show, Ms. Frizzle and her class get a first-hand lesson in the forces of nature as they fly directly into the heart of a powerful tornado.

"The Helios Project is a top-secret experiment to harness the sun's power to create a virtually limitless new energy source. When an enormous solar flare overwhelms the project's containment system, it unleashes swirling magnetic vortexes that consume anything metallic in their path. The magnetized funnels act like huge buzz saws, pulverizing cars, buildings and entire towns in their wake. The destruction only makes them grow stronger, and as these...